While Interstate 40 will reopen March 1, officials are calling for the reopening to include slow traffic, delays and "unusual ...

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy visitedthe Pigeon River Gorge in North Carolina Feb. 10, 2025 to survey Tropical Storm Helene recovery efforts. These are road crews working on the road ...

Five months after Interstate 40 partially collapsed into the Pigeon River in North Carolina, the highway is reopening March 1. Drivers will once again be able to travel freely from Tennessee ...

Around 20 miles of Interstate 40 between Tennessee and North Carolina have been closed since Tropical Storm Helene hit the region on Sept. 27.

I-40 through the Pigeon River Gorge is expected to reopen on ... a critical corridor through the mountains of Western North Carolina. The reopening of the road in Haywood County had been delayed ...

The flooding Pigeon River washed away more than a mile of ... Before the storm, I-40 was the busiest connection between North Carolina and points west, handling 26,000 cars and trucks a day ...

JONATHAN CREEK - Driving west along Interstate 40 in the Pigeon River Gorge ... Crossing the Tennessee line from North Carolina, a vista of the gorge opens up as excavators and dump trucks ...

Interstate 40 along the Pigeon River Gorge will reopen on March ... Crossing the Tennessee line from North Carolina, a vista of the gorge opens up as excavators and dump trucks bustle below ...

FILE - This photo provided by the North Carolina Department of Transportation shows the collapsed eastbound lane of I-40 into the Pigeon River in North Carolina near the Tennessee border ...

A crucial stretch of Interstate 40 through North Carolina’s Pigeon River Gorge reopened Saturday, five months after Hurricane Helene devastated the region and severed a key freight corridor.