Once 2,000 square miles in Virginia and North Carolina, the swamp today is perhaps one-tenth that size. Allison Shelley The worse it gets, as I wade and stumble through the Great Dismal Swamp ...

There are 62 National Heritage Areas across the country; parts of North Carolina and Virginia may become the 63rd.

Joining southeastern Virginia with northeastern North Carolina, the Great Dismal Swamp is a stretch of forested wetland that, in hindsight, doesn’t really live up to the “dismal” part of its ...

The proposed Great Dismal Swamp National Heritage Area is in the midst of a 3-year feasibility study process. Trump withdraws nomination of Rep. Elise Stefanik for U.N. ambassador 41 States That ...