When most people think of North Carolina, winter wonderlands probably aren’t the first thing that comes to mind. Yet high in the Blue Ridge Mountains lies a hidden snowy paradise that has been ...

The levels of stoke are high. The start of the 2025-26 ski season came early after snowfall in western North Carolina. Sugar Mountain opened for skiing on Tuesday, Nov. 11. Other WRAL Top Stories The ...

Beech Mountain Ski Resort opens Friday, Nov. 29 for the 2024-25 ski season. On Oct. 8, the resort announced its planned opening date for the season even though parts of western North Carolina had ...

If you know about the tiny North Carolina town of Beech Mountain, you probably think of it as a Southern skiing destination, which it is. The elevation here—the highest east of the Rockies—is an ...

Many Western NC towns that would normally see a surge of tourists for fall leaf season are not only recovering from the storm’s aftermath but also struggling due to the drop in visitors. A month after ...