The N.C. Department of Transportation has narrowed its search for a place to quarry stone needed to restore the eastbound ...

most were ready to welcome back visitors to the Pigeon River at the start of the season − albeit with rocks shifted, channels widened and the river flowing past ongoing interstate repairs.

Rebuilding a section of Interstate 40 through the Pigeon River Gorge will take tons of rock, and now the N.C. Department of Transportation has a pretty good idea where it will come from.