LYNCHBURG — After years of work and numerous setbacks, it looks as though the Claudius Crozet Blue Ridge Tunnel in Afton will be complete in 2020. Although the project was initiated in 2001, according ...

Once the longest railroad tunnel in the United States, the Blue Ridge Tunnel is now an easy rail trail for walking or biking. Take a ride with our very own John Carlin ...

STAUNTON — The first floor of the R.R. Smith Center for History and Art will be abuzz with excitement on Friday, Sept. 6, from 5-8 p.m. On that evening, all of the history and art galleries will be ...

Claudius Crozet Blue Ridge Tunnel Trail: Photo courtesy Jack Looney. The exhibit is their story. Using hand drills, picks, shovels, hammers, gunpowder and fuses, they opened up the mountain inch by ...

The inky black hole carved out of greenstone in the mid-1800s opens into a tunnel 700 feet beneath Rockfish Gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains. • Laying Tracks, a special event to help raise money for ...

The restoration of the Blue Ridge Tunnel carved underneath Rockfish Gap, connecting Afton to Augusta County, is beginning work about a year and a half after a grant was awarded that brought the ...

May is water safety month, a time to focus on safe habits that can help prevent drowning.According to the YMCA of bristol–children ages one to four face the hig Early turnout steady in Sullivan ...

Once the longest tunnel in America, the Blue Ridge Tunnel carved beneath Virginia’s mountains was a triumph of 19th-century engineering. Today, it stands as a relic of a bygone era. Jimmy Kimmel ...

STAUNTON — A foundation is preparing to take the wraps off a restoration plan for a 155-year-old former railroad tunnel linking Nelson and Augusta counties. Proponents want to resurrect the 5,000-foot ...