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BENT CREEK – Record rainfall across Western North Carolina this past week has taken such a toll on forest trails that the U.S. Forest Service has closed all trails in Bent Creek Experimental ...

BENT CREEK — Just in time to salvage some of the weekend, Pisgah District Ranger Dave Casey said the hiking and mountain biking trails in the Bent Creek Experimental Forest will reopen by 5 p.m ...

WHAT: Bent Creek Service Project. WHEN: Saturday, Nov. 22, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.. WHERE: Ledford Branch Road, 479G, Bent Creek. WHY: Many trails in Bent Creek Experimental Forest were never intended for ...

Bounded by the Southern Appalachian Mountains and the lush, lofty trees of Bent Creek, the oldest federal experimental forest east of the Mississippi River, the North Carolina Arboretum near ...

The Arboretum and Bent Creek are about 420 miles from my Neptune Beach home by way of I-95 and then I-26. A sign on I-26 just outside Asheville sends you there easily on the Blue Ridge Parkway exit.