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Hanging Rock State Park. / 36.39139°N 80.26611°W / 36.39139; -80.26611. Hanging Rock State Park is a 9,011-acre (3,647 ha) [1] North Carolina state park in Stokes County, North Carolina in the United States. The park is 30 miles (48 km) north of Winston-Salem and is located approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) from Danbury in Stokes County .
Roan Mountain (Roan Highlands) / 36.1045729°N 82.1223004°W / 36.1045729; -82.1223004. Roan Mountain is a 6,277 ft (1,913 m) [ 1] mountain straddling the North Carolina/Tennessee border in the Unaka Range of the Southern Appalachian Mountains in the Southeastern United States. The range's highpoint, Roan is clad in a dense stand of ...
The state park is near the site of the first landing on April 26, 1607 of Christopher Newport and the Virginia Company colonists before establishing themselves at Jamestown. The park includes cabins, areas for camping, fishing, and swimming, a public beach, and over 19 miles (31 km) of trails for hiking and biking.
Designated. 1974. Mount Mitchell State Park is a 4,789-acre (1,938 ha) [1] North Carolina state park in Yancey County, North Carolina in the United States. Established in 1915 by the state legislature, it became the first state park of North Carolina. By doing so, it also established the North Carolina State Parks System within the same bill ...
Memorial flowers and notes line walkway at the University of Virginia's Scott Stadium Tuesday in Charlottesville. Va., after three of the school's football players were killed in a Sunday shooting ...
June 24, 2024 at 10:09 PM. Andre Jenny. The death of a 12-year-old boy at a North Carolina wilderness camp for troubled adolescents has been ruled a homicide, according to an autopsy report ...
Hike. Humpback Rocks is a massive greenstone outcropping near the peak of Humpback Mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Augusta County and Nelson County, Virginia, United States, with a summit elevation of 3,080 feet (940 m). The rock formation is so named for the visual effect of a "hump" it creates on the western face of the mountain.
ASHEVILLE — The Blue Ridge Parkway is temporarily banning backcountry campfires “effective immediately” due to increased fire danger in Western North Carolina and southwest Virginia ...