Lake Lure and Chimney Rock are only accessible by Highway-9 from the Columbus area and Highway-64 from Rutherfordton, according to officials. Access to the area through Bat Cave remains closed.

A destroyed house with a car under it in Chimney Rock, N.C., on Sunday. (Khadejeh Nikouyeh/The Charlotte Observer. via Reuters) A week after Hurricane Helene pummeled the Southeast, leaving at ...

The storm destroyed the entrance to the state park — a bridge flanked by two stone gatehouses — along with a third of the ...

The reopening provides needed encouragement to those in adjoining Chimney Rock Village, where a third of the hamlet's businesses were destroyed as river waters removed buildings from their foundations ...

CHIMNEY ROCK. The flood waters that destroyed much of Chimney Rock village last Sept. 27 also took out the bridge over the Rocky Broad River that served as the main entrance to the park for decades.

For Shari Cummings, Chimney Rock had been home for nearly 30 years. That changed in September when Helene unleashed its fury. She lost her home, her business and everything she had worked for, but ...

Chimney Rock State Park reopened June 27, nine months after Tropical Storm Helene. Local officials say the park is vital to the region's tourism economy, with over 400,000 visitors in 2023.

CHIMNEY ROCK, N.C. (WSPA) – More than ten weeks after Hurricane Helene devastated parts of western North Carolina, the cleanup and rebuild process remains underway. In an effort to help some of ...