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The trail network consists of a 330-mile (530 km) corridor, including a 70-mile (110 km) branch from Elkin, North Carolina, that joins the main route at Morganton, North Carolina. In Rutherford County, North Carolina, the trail follows the approximate location of Rock Road through the Gilbert Town Historic District. [3]
The Mountains-to-Sea State Park Trail was made an official land-based unit of the state park system by the North Carolina General Assembly on August 2, 2000. [1] Since that time, the state trail unit has grown to encompass 691 acres (280 ha) in three tracts and 87 acres (35 ha) in conservation easements. [2]
The State Trail is planned as a hiking trail connecting the Town of Valdese, the City of Hickory, the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail, South Mountains State Park and Chimney Rock State Park [1] The trail is a collaboration between local governments and the state, with development coordinated by the North Carolina Division of Parks ...
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The area was first identified in 1966. [1] It was then designated by Congress in 1975 with the Eastern Wilderness Act. [1] Additional lands were added to Ellicott Rock Wilderness in 1984 [2] [3] with the passing of the North Carolina Wilderness Act [citation needed] and the Georgia Wilderness Act [citation needed], today designated wilderness totals 8,274 acres (33.48 km 2).
Rendezvous Mountain State Park is a 1,800-acre (7.3 km 2) [2] North Carolina state park in Purlear, North Carolina. It was originally established as North Carolina's third state park. [4] From 1984 to early 2022, the park was operated by the North Carolina Forest Service as Rendezvous Mountain Educational State Forest. [4] [2]
Middle Prong Wilderness, designated in 1984, covers 7,900 acres (32 km 2) within the Pisgah National Forest in Haywood County, Western North Carolina.The Wilderness Area spans steep, rugged high-elevation ridges ranging from 3,200 to over 6,400 feet, and the area gets its name from the Middle Prong of the Pigeon River finding whose headwaters are located in the area. [1]
Tuttle Educational State Forest (TESF) is a 288-acre (117 ha) North Carolina State Forest near Lenoir, North Carolina. [1] It was named for American missionary educator Lelia Judson Tuttle , who donated the first 168 acres (68 ha) of land for the park in 1956.