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In 2015, we launched our GetHiking! Classic Hikes program with GetHiking! North Carolina’s Classic Hikes. Over the course of the year we hiked a dozen of North Carolina’s most notable...

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...

It will happen, mark our words. Sometime during the January thaw, when the glow of the holidays has faded and the reality of a long winter sets in, you’ll suddenly...

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...

So you you’ve been following our Let’s Take a Walk in the Woods series in this space for the past month about becoming a hiker. You started with the basics,...

So you read our post two weeks ago about launching your hiking career, then last weekend, based on our beginner hike recommendations the following week, took not one, but two...

So you read our post last week about launching your hiking career — if you didn’t, hit pause and go here, then come back — and were intrigued. You’ve let...

There’s a scene in “A Walk in the Woods,” the screen version of Bill Bryson’s memorable 1998 account of his common-sense-plagued hike on the Appalachian Trail, in which Bryson (played...

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...

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...

Whitewater paddling. 113 miles of mountain bike trail. more than 200 miles of hiking trail (including one trail 75 miles long). A nearly interconnected 280-mile greenway system that now acts...

The Piedmont Land Conservancy has set the bar high with the Knight Brown Nature Preserve, its first preserve open to the public. The 189-acre oasis in Rockingham County is dominated...

Looking for a good place to hike in Charlotte or the surrounding area? You don’t have to look far.A great resource about hiking in Charlotte is the Mecklenburg County Park...

The good news for Charlotte hikers? It takes less than an hour and a half to get to the Pisgah National Forest, the gateway to epic southern Appalachian hiking. The...

As places to live go, a hiker could do a lot worse than the Triad. According to Allen de Hart’s “Trails of the Triad,” there are more than 140 hikes...

If you love a good lake hike, you’ll like hiking at the Piedmont Environmental Center in High Point, a 376-acre preserve, a goodly portion of which is enveloped by High...

Stone Mountain Loop Trail Frankly, you won’t find the best hiking on the 16 miles of official hiking trail that prod this rugged 14,100-acre park at the base of the...

Ledge Spring/Jomokee Loop Trail Sometimes you’re so busy gawking and taking pictures you don’t have time to hike a great distance. When you’re exploring the top of Pilot Mountain State...