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CONNECT NC Bond Projects
CONNECT NC Bond Projects
The Connect NC Bond Package includes $75 million for 45 state parks projects across the state.
The bond projects would enhance the visitor experience by:
- Offering newer and more diverse recreational experience, such as expanded and upgraded campsites, picnic areas, cabins, trails, day-use areas and facilities;
- Providing new and expanded visitor centers, classrooms, auditoriums, exhibits and other learning venues and experiences, and
- Acquiring lands and waters to protect key natural resources for conservation and public use.
Ongoing projects
updated February 2020
Park |
Description |
Bond funds |
Status |
Carolina Beach |
Improvements to the campground, including
|
$855,000 |
contracting |
Carvers Creek |
Improve and repair Long Valley Dam |
$2,800,000 |
in construction |
Carvers Creek |
Improve Long Valley Farm public access area,
|
$2,700,750 |
schematic under review |
Cliffs of the Neuse |
New bathhouse |
$692,400 |
complete |
Crowders Mountain |
Expanded parking at Linville Road and
|
$750,000 |
in construction |
Eno River |
Construction of visitor center and maintenance
|
$2,830,500 |
under review, ongoing archaeological explorations |
Falls Lake |
Upgrading RV electrical to 50-amp service |
$789,750 |
designer selection |
Gorges |
Construction of new tent and RV campsites
|
$2,505,750 |
under contract |
Hammocks Beach |
Initial development of newly acquired
|
$1,125,000 |
schematic under review |
Jockey's Ridge |
Major renovation of the visitor center |
$751,500 |
|
Lake James |
Construction of visitor center |
$3,021,000 |
in construction |
Lake Norman |
Improvements to tent and trailer campsites
|
$2,307,000 |
bid awarded |
Lumber River |
New day-use facility at Wire Pasture access |
$2,628,750 |
on hold |
Morrow Mountain |
Construction of new cabins |
$1,537,500 |
in design |
Mount Mitchell |
Renovate or replace existing toilet facilities at
|
$600,000 |
ready for bid |
Pettigrew |
Construction of visitor center |
$2,830,500 |
on hold |
Pilot Mountain |
Construction of visitor center |
$4,481,850 |
in construction |
Pilot Mountain |
New overlook at the summit |
included in above |
award letter |
Raven Rock |
Tent and trailer campground and
|
$1,125,000 |
in construction |
For questions about Connect NC Bond projects for the North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation, please contact Katie Hall at katie.hall@ncparks.gov.