Mount Mitchell State Park reopens

Mount Mitchell State Park has reopened for the first time since Hurricane Helene. Now all North Carolina State Parks are at least partly open.

Details: The Blue Ridge Parkway has also reopened from milepost 382, in Asheville, to milepost 355.3, near the Mount Mitchell State Park entrance.

• Tent campsites and the park's restaurant are also still closed. Its concession stand will be open Saturdays and Sundays.

If you go: The Parkway is still closed from just past the park's entrance to milepost 334 near Little Switzerland.

• You'll enter near Asheville if you're traveling from the east and north of the park.