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DuPont State Recreational Forest IUCN category VI (protected area with sustainable use of natural resources) View of High Falls in DuPont Forest Location of DuPont State Forest in North Carolina Show map of North Carolina DuPont State Forest (the United States) Show map of the United States Location Henderson & Transylvania, North Carolina, United States Coordinates 35°11′49.28″N 82°35 ...
Clemmons Educational State Forest: Piedmont Johnston, Wake: 825 acres (3.34 km 2) [1] Open year-round DuPont State Recreational Forest: Mountains Henderson, Transylvania: 10,473 acres (42.38 km 2) [1] [2] Open year-round Gill State Forest: Mountains Avery: 474 acres (1.92 km 2) [3] Not open to the general public Headwaters State Forest ...
In the 1990s, DuPont Forest was sold to the State of North Carolina, and as DuPont has completed cleanup of various areas, those areas have been made open to the public. A photograph of Triple Falls was one of the tools used to convince the state to purchase the property, which is now a 10,000-acre (4,047 ha) state forest.
Like so many of our favorite North Carolina towns, it’s surrounded by forests—Dupont State Forest, Pisgah National Forest, Green River Game Lands—and, as you would expect, has all manner of ...
DuPont is the most visited state forest in N.C., receiving around 1.1 million visitors in 2023 according to a legislative report. In 2021, the forest saw a record-breaking 1.3 million visitors.
A fire in DuPont State Forest is now 100% contained, sitting at 36 acres, spokesperson Kirsten McDonald told the Citizen Times. About 5-10 acres of the fire are on DuPont State Forest land, while ...
DuPont State Forest, Transylvania County, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina Coordinates 35°12′08″N 82°37′26″W / 35.202110°N 82.623752°W / 35.202110; -82.
High Falls is located in Transylvania County on the Little River through the DuPont State Forest. It is one of 4 major waterfalls on the Little River in this area, the others being Triple Falls, Hooker Falls, and Bridal Veil Falls. Above the falls itself, the river is level and calm.