Merchants Millpond State Park in Gatesville, North Carolina is that rare place where you feel like you’ve accidentally paddled onto the set of Jurassic Park – minus the velociraptors, thankfully. Most ...

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 ...

and gaining access to the trees required digging ditches to drain the swamp. By the 1950s, the last of the virgin timber in the Great Dismal Swamp was gone, according to a National Park Service ...

Merchants Millpond State Park in Gatesville is that rare destination that makes you question whether you’ve somehow slipped through a crack in reality. And yet, despite spanning an impressive 3,520 ...

The Great Dismal Swamp’s history, as rich as the peat soil beneath the feet of visitors, may soon gain greater recognition as ...

Joining southeastern Virginia with northeastern North Carolina, the Great Dismal Swamp is a stretch of forested ... That includes the more common bald cypress to the rare Atlantic white cedar ...

The proposed Great Dismal Swamp National Heritage Area is in the middle of a three-year feasibility study process. That includes a public comment period, which is open now until May 19th.