Exploring North Carolina's Natural Areas: Parks, Nature Preserves, and Hiking Trails edited by Dirk Frankenberg $29.95 hardcover $18.95 paperback

Table of Contents Read the Introduction Memoriam for Dirk Frankenberg, 1937-2000 FEATURES 38 TOURS FOR NATURE LOVERS Seven Coastal Tours, Nine Coastal Plain Tours, Nine Piedmont Tours, Thirteen Mountain The Coast Tour One (25 miles): "Old and New on the Outer Banks" Nags Head Woods Ecological Preserve and Run Hill Jockey's Ridge State Park and Soundside Drive Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Old and New Inlets, and Pea Island Nature Preserve Coquina Beach, Bodie Island Lighthouse, and Bodie Island Dike Nature Trail Oregon Inlet Pea Island Wildlife Refuge Tour Two (55 miles): "Outer Banks from Ocracoke to Pea Island" Ocracoke Village Ocracoke Barrier Island and Barrier Dune Ridges Hatteras Inlet Buxton Woods Cape Point Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Buxton Overwash Cape Roadanthe and Wimble Shoals New Inlet and Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge Pea Island Going-to-the-Sea Highway Pea Island Visitors Center and Hiking Trails Tour Three (48 miles): "Downeast Lowlands" Pine Cliff Recreation Area in Croatan National Forest Harlowe Canal Adams Creek Canal North River Estuary Davis Oyster Creek, King Point Marsh, and Brett Bay Entrance to Open Grounds Farm Salter Creek and North Bay Cedar Island Juncus Marsh Cedar Island Village Cedar Island Barrier and Pamlico Sound Tour Four (20 miles): "Bogue Banks" Fort Macon State Park and Nature Trail Hoop Pole Creek Nature Trail Theodore Roosevelt State Natural Area and Nature Trails, North Carolina Aquarium and Pine Knoll Shores Western Half of Bogue Banks Tour Five (30 miles): "White Oak River from Source to Sea" Source of the White Oak: Upstream of Maysville Freshwater Reaches of the River to Haywood Landing Fresh Water--Estuarine Transition: Stella and the Middle Reaches Salt Marsh and Sound Views at Cedar Point Recreation Area Mouth of the White Oak: Bear Island and Hammocks Beach State Park Tour Six: "Lower Cape Fear River by Car and Ferry" Town Creek Brunswick Town Site and Salt Marshes Southport and Its Ferry Terminal Zeke's Island Estuarine Research Reserve Carolina Beach State Park Tour Seven: "Brunswick County" Green Swamp Old Shorelines Shallotte: Shallotte River and Estuary Development, Development and Bird Island Return to the top. The Coastal Plain Tour One: "Currituck Sound's Mackay Island" Tour Two (75 miles): "Wetlands, Swamps, and Forests" Weldon Landing: Border between the Piedmont and the Coastal Plain Murfreesboro Merchants Millpond State Park Dismal Swamp Canal Tour Three (45 miles): "Lower Roanoke River Floodplain" Fort Branch Optional Canoeing on Conoho Creek off Poplar Point Road Moratoc Park, Williamston Roanoke River Wetlands/Game Lands Conine Island, within Roanoke River National Wildlife Refuge Windsor Wetlands Boardwalk on the Cashie River Sans Souci Ferry Mouth of the River and Conaby Creek Boat Launch Tour Four (160 miles): "Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula" Pettigrew State Park and Somerset Place Partnership for the Sounds Visitors Center, Columbia Lake Mattamuskeet Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge Tour Five (33 miles): "The Upper Pamilico River Estuary" Washington Goose Creek State Park Bath Crossing the Pamlico Aurora and the PCS Phosphate Mine Tour Six (80 miles): "Croatan National Forest" Patsy Pond Natural Area and Nature Trail Millis Road Cedar Point Tideland Trail Great Lake Haywood Landing at the White Oak River Catfish Lake and Impoundments Neuse River Recreation Area, Flanner Beach Island Creek Forest Walk Tour Seven (80 miles): "Carolina Bay Lakes" Lake Waccamaw Loop Trip to the Bladen Lakes Bays and Elwell Ferry Tour Eight (30 miles): "Southern Lumber River Region" Robeson County Museum Mathews Bluff Boating Access Lumber River State Park Access Fair Bluff Tour Nine (35 miles): "Land of the Longleaf Pine" Walthour/Moss Foundation and Yadkin Road Weymouth Center and the Boyd Tract Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve Fort Bragg Military Reservation Malcom Blue Farm Sandhills Game Lands Return to the top. The Piedmont Tour One (56 miles): "Rocks, Soils, and Plant Life in the Central Piedmont" Pennyís Bend Nature Preserve Hill Demonstration Forest Butner Natural Areas Falls Lake (Falls of the Neuse Reservoir) Tour Two (30 miles): "Ecological Succession and Old-Growth Forests of the Central Piedmont" North Carolina Botanical Garden Mason Farm Biological Reserve Duke Forest Eno River State Park E. Hillsborough and Occoneechee Mountain State Natural Areas Tour Three (16 miles): "Nature Amidst Development" William B. Umstead State Park Hemlock Bluffs Nature Preserve Swift Creek Bluffs Nature Preserve Tour Four (80 miles): "Coastal Plain to Piedmont Transition" "Extreme Sandhill" Longleaf Pine Flat, Red-Cockaded Woodpeckers, and Tarkilns Seventeen Frog Pond Scotland Lane Annual Burn Area Pleasant Grove Church Longleaf Pine Stand Dark Mountain and Barnes Creek Uwharrie River and Adjacent Slopes Schweinitzís Sunflower The Rock Maze Mafic Slope, Upland Depression Swamps, and the "Canyon of the Yadkin" Tour Five (50 miles): "Uwharrie Lakes Scenic Loop" Pee Dee National Wildlife Refuge Grassy Islands Ellerbe Town Creek Indian Mound Tour Six (65 miles): "Uwharrie Minerals and Landscapes" Reed Gold Mine Morrow Mountain State Park Badin and the Narrows of the Yadkin The Birkhead Wilderness Area Seagrove Potters Tour Seven (32 miles): "Lonely Mountains" Hanging Rock State Park Pilot Mountain State Park Tour Eight (90 miles): "The South Mountains Area" Catawba Science Center Tuttle Educational State Forest South Mountains State Park South Mountain Game Lands (Rollins Tract) Tour Nine (56 miles): "Parks, Forests, and Geology of the Southwest Piedmont" Kings Mountain State Park and Kings Mountain National Military Park Crowders Mountain State Park Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden Carolina Raptor Center, Latta Plantation Park Return to the top. The Mountains Tour One (46 miles): "Northwestern Mountains" Stone Mountain State Park New River State Park Mount Jefferson State Natural Area Tour Two (32 miles): "Blue Ridge Parkway" E. B. Jeffress Park Moses H. Cone Memorial Park Julian Price Memorial Park Hiking Trails: Tanawha and Others Grandfather Mountains Tour Three (68 miles): "Roan Mountain Highlands" Carvers Gap Rhododendron Gardens Roan Mountain State Park Museum of North Carolina Minerals Tour Four (56.6 miles): "Linville Gorge" Wisemanís View The Pinnacle Table Rock and Hawksbill Mountain Linville Falls Tour Five (20 miles): "Mountain Touring" Linville Falls and Gorge Chestoa View Overlook Hefner Gap Overlook and The Loops Overlook Three Knobs Overlook and Black Mountain Overlook Singecat Ridge Overlook, Licklog Ridge Overlook, and Green Knob Overlook Ridge Junction Overlook Mount Mitchell State Park Road Mount Mitchell Parking Area and Trail Summit of Mount Mitchell Tour Six (35 miles): "Forest Communities of the Southern Appalachians" Folk Art Center and Mountains-to-Sea Trail Haw Creek Valley Overlook Tanbark Ridge Overlook Tanbark Ridge Tunnel, Rattlesnake Lodge Trail: Transition to Northern Hardwoods Craggy Gardens: Forest Succession from Grassy Bald to Northern Hardwoods Craggy Flats Trail: Orchard Vegetation and Heath Bald Glassmine Falls Overlook: Spruce-Fir Forest Community Balsam Gap Overlook, Big Butt Trail: Transition from Northern Hardwoods to Spruce-Fir Forest Mount Mitchell State Park and Spruce-Fir Forest Tour Eight: "Great Smoky Mountains National Park" Tour Nine: "Hickory Nut Gorge" Chimney Rock Park Bat Cave Preserve Bottomless Pools Tour Ten (76 miles): "Blue Ridge Parkway Tour" North Carolina Arboretum and Sandy Bottoms Mount Pisgah and Flat Laurel Gap The Pink Beds and the East Fork Old Growth Graveyard Fields Overlook Black Balsam Knob Devils Courthouse and Mount Hardy Richland Balsam Old Bald and Licklog Gap Deep Gap and Steestachee Bald Boulder Fields Waynesville Overlook Redbank Cove, Standing Rock Overlook Balsam Gap Mount Lynn Lowry Overlook Woodfin Cascades Overlook Yellowface Overlook Waterrock Knob Woollyback Overlook Soco Gap Plott Balsam Overlook Heintooga Spur and Balsam Mountain Road Tour Eleven (27.5 miles): "Our Forest Heritage and Forestry Today" Blue Ridge Parkway to the Cradle of Forestry FR 475-B to FR 225 FR 22 Headwaters Road Lower Section to US 276 US 276 North to the Blue Ridge Parkway Tour Twelve (18 miles): "Cherohala Skyway to Joyce Kilmer Forest" Big Santeetlah Gap Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest Camera Photo Point Wright Creek Old-Growth Hemlock and Hooper Bald Overlook Stratton Meadows and Gap Beech Gap Tour Thirteen (50 miles): "Blue Ridge Escarpment" Horsepasture River Thompson River Whitewater River Bull Pen Road Ellicott Rock Wilderness Chattooga River Slick Rock Whiteside Cove Horse Cove Highlands Plateau Whiteside Mountain Devils Court House Return to the top. 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