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5 Hikes to Catch a First Glimpse of Fall
Summit Trail, Elk Knob State Park (photo courtesy NC State Parks) You’re fed up with the summer heat. With the tease (last week) of cooler, fall-like air only to be...
Go long this weekend with GetHiking! at Crowders Mountain, Doughton Park and on the Mountains-to-Sea Trail
The following items are from our GetExploring! Greenville and GetHiking! Charlotte, Triad and Triangle enewsletters. All enewsletters are delivered, upon request, to subscribers’ email boxes on Mondays. If you’d like...
GetHiking! this weekend at Pilot Mountain, GetBackpacking! for fall, GetExploring! on a moon-lit paddle
The following items are from our GetExploring! Greenville and GetHiking! Charlotte, Triad and Triangle enewsletters. All enewsletters are delivered, upon request, to subscribers’ email boxes on Mondays. If you’d like...
This week in GetHiking! and GetExploring!
The following items are from our GetExploring! Greenville and GetHiking! Charlotte, Triad and Triangle enewsletters. All enewsletters are delivered, upon request, to subscribers’ email boxes on Mondays. If you’d like...
Add a hike to your Thanksgiving celebration Check out these 10 trails close to home
Turkey, football — face it, what you need to make Thanksgiving Day truly complete is brisk hike. And frankly, the conditions couldn’t be better this Thanksgiving Day for an hour...
Five spots to find early fall color sneaking into the Piedmont
Bummed because you thought you may have missed the start of full color because of the recent rain? Word on the trail is that you haven’t really missed anything, that...
Save Your Summer! Part I: Take a Hike
Yikes, look at the calendar! It’s August 6 a’ready! Where did the summer go? Easy there, adventurous friends. We may be down to the last month before Labor Day and...
Cool Fun in the Summertime: Charlotte
The good news, especially for you Uptown workers: simply getting out of center city can be feel 10 to 20 degrees cooler, thanks to the “heat island” effect of the...
This Week in GetHiking! and GetExploring!
The following items are gleaned from our GetHiking! enewsletters for Charlotte, the Triad and the Triangle, and our GetExploring! Greenville enewsletter. All enewsletters are delivered, upon request, to subscribers’ email...
GetHiking! / GetExploring! ... State Park adventures ... 'Closed' ... Last-minute gifts ... Weather the rain
Our GetHiking! and GetExploring! programs are throttling back through the holidays as we prepare for an adventurous start to the new year. Today, a few adventures at the coast, an...