ROBBINSVILLE — Roadwork and needed parking lot repairs has forced the U.S Forest Service to temporarily close the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest and Jenkins Meadow trailheads on the Nantahala National ...

A wildfire burning in the Nantahala National Forest forced portions of the Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness to close April 15 near Robbinsville, U.S. Forest Service officials said. A lightning strike ...

The United States Forest Service announced in a May 5 news release that the Joyce Kilmer Slickrock Wilderness area of the Nantahala National Forest and all trails within the wilderness have reopened ...

ROBBINSVILLE — Two wildfires spreading in western North Carolina have burned a wooded area more than 2 square miles (about 5.2 square kilometers), forest officials said. The larger fire in the Joyce ...

The Haoe Fire in the Nantahala National Forest grew to 800 acres April 16 and is partially burning within a scar left from an 8,000-acre fire, which tore through the area during a disastrous fire ...

Update: At 8 p.m. the U.S. Forest Service said on social media they are still working to contain the Haoe Fire in the Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness in the Nantahala National Forest. The fire is ...