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State Recreation Areas are more intensely developed units than State Parks, and they largely encompass lands less sensitive to human activities than State Parks. According to the NC Division of Parks & Recreation: State Recreation Areas are sites where the primary purpose is outdoor recreation, rather than preservation.
Recreational map of Jordan Lake. State park lands are depicted in tan. The Jordan Lake State Recreation Area is divided into several smaller areas: Farrington Point, Crosswinds, White Oak, Poplar Point, Ebenezer Church, New Hope Overlook and Poes ridge along the eastern shoreline and Robeson Creek, Vista Point, Seaforth, Parkers Creek, and the Jordan Lake Educational State Forest along the ...
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 .
There are 13 National parks in North Carolina. Only the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a traditional park. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is also a World Heritage Site. Other parks include heritage areas, historic sites, national seashores, historic trails, and memorials managed by the National Park Service. Several of the ...
The State of North Carolina has a group of twelve protected areas known as State Forests which are managed by the North Carolina Forest Service, an agency of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Six of the state forests are known as State Educational Forests and they are primarily used to educate the public about ...
In addition to the mountains, the park also contains the Yadkin-Pee Dee River, one of central North Carolina's largest river systems. The river can be seen from the overlook atop Morrow Mountain. Morrow Mountain State Park (in left distance, 5 miles (8.0 km)) featuring Lake Tillery, Hattaway Mountain, Morrow Mountain, and Sugarloaf Mountain.
Pisgah View State Park is a developing 205-acre (0.83 km 2) [1] North Carolina state park in Buncombe and Haywood Counties, North Carolina, in the United States. [2] [3] The center piece of the park is the approximately 1,600-acre (6.5 km 2) [3] Pisgah View Ranch, which has rental cabins, equestrian trails, a swimming pool, tennis courts and other amenities.
Dismal Swamp State Park is a North Carolina state park in Camden County, North Carolina, in the United States. The park was created as a state natural area in 1974 with the help of The Nature Conservancy , and on July 28, 2007, the North Carolina General Assembly re-designated it as a state park. [ 4 ]