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Elk Knob State Park is a 4,423-acre (17.90 km 2) [2] North Carolina state park in Watauga County, North Carolina, in the United States. Opened in 2003, it is one of North Carolina's newest state parks.
Elk Knob is a mountain in the North Carolina High Country, north of the community of Meat Camp. Its elevation reaches 5,538 feet (1,688 m). The mountain is the headwaters of the North Fork New River and feeder creeks to the South Fork New River (via Meat Camp Creek [3]). The mountain is home to Elk Knob State Park.
The first North Carolina State Park, it protects the summit of Mount Mitchell the highest point in the eastern United States. [1] New River State Park: Mountains Alleghany, Ashe [2] 3,323 acres (13.45 km 2) [5] 1975 [2] Open This park preserves the landscape along the New River, which is Wild and Scenic River and a State River. Pettigrew State Park
The state Forest Service has banned outdoor burning in 30 Western North Carolina counties in the wake of a spate of wildfires that have burned thousands of bone-dry acres.
The Northern Peaks State Trail is a unit of the North Carolina state park system in Ashe and Watauga Counties, North Carolina in the United States.The State Trail is planned as a hiking trail connecting Downtown Boone, Howard Knob County Park, Elk Knob State Park, Three Top Mountain Gameland, Downtown West Jefferson and Mount Jefferson State Natural Area. [2]
Pages in category "State parks of North Carolina" The following 58 pages are in this category, out of 58 total. ... Elk Knob State Park; Eno River State Park; F.
One of the rarest plant communities in North Carolina. The still forming Elk Knob State Park is adjacent to the privately owned NNL, and the state has a long-term goal to acquire the site. Mount Jefferson State Park: 1974: Ashe: state
Grandfather Mountain [1] is a mountain, a non-profit attraction, and a North Carolina state park near Linville, North Carolina.At 5,946 feet (1,812 m), it is the highest peak on the eastern escarpment of the Blue Ridge Mountains, one of the major chains of the Appalachian Mountains.