Key portion of North Carolina's I-40 partially reopens after Helene damage

North Carolina is still rebuilding after Hurricane Helene‘s devastation, but a key piece of infrastructure partially reopened over the weekend.

In the western part of the Tar Heel State, parts of various roadways vital for interstate travel and commerce, including Interstate-40, were washed away during flooding caused by the storm in September 2024. While the Tennessee portion of the interstate reopened in October, on Saturday, the North Carolina portion through the Pigeon River Gorge corridor reopened with one lane going in each direction.