Route 58 in Damascus, the road that follows the Virginia Creeper Trail is now open after losing about a mile and a half of the road during Helene.

Streets, sidewalks and parking lots around Damascus swelled with humanity Friday as the 38th annual Appalachian Trail Days Festival got underway.

A closed section of U.S. Route 58 reopened to traffic Thursday afternoon, some seven months after floodwaters obliterated a 1.5-mile section east of Damascus.

Ross said that Robinson wanted to go for a walk with her at about 10:30 p.m. They walked to the Virginia Creeper Trail where Robinson “suddenly grabbed her hair and pulled her neck back in an ...

Hurricane recovery efforts in Virginia are ahead of schedule as Route 58 in Damascus reopened Thursday. During Hurricane Helene, 1.5 miles of Route 58 were washed ...

and much of the Virginia Creeper Trail was washed away. Standing in downtown Damascus, David Phillips recalled the chaos of last September’s flood. “Where the creek actually is, it looked like ...