Residents in the neighboring resort town of LakeLure said ChimneyRock was largely flattened. “Everything along the river is gone,” said Tracey Stevens, who worked at the ChimneyRock ...
On the road from Chimney Rock to Lake Lure, years of work and care transformed an abandoned bridge into a garden oasis. Hurricane Helene wiped all that away.
ChimneyRock and LakeLure in western North Carolina appear to have been devastated by flooding after Hurricane Helene swept through the area. Census data from 2022 indicate 220 people live in ...