Lewis Fork News Today

For several years in the 1920s, the upper North Prong of Lewis Fork Creek prevented R.J. “Rocky” Hartzog from going straight down the mountain via Walsh, Big Ivy and other

EDITOR’S NOTE: This feature appeared in the March 10, 2021 Wilkes Journal-Patriot as part of its series of articles on the trails of northwestern North Carolina. North Carolina’s 1,120-mile-long Mountains-to-Sea Trail (MST) corridor stretches from the top of 6,643-foot Clingman’s Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to Jockey’s Ridge on the coast. About 700 miles of the trail are complete, including a 44-mile section from the intersection of the Blue Ridge Parkway...