Policies for COVID-19
Posted on: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 - 4:22pm |
Access to the corridor trail at Culler Road will be limited beginning the week of June 20, 2022. A stream restoration is being completed and the construction zone will include the trail. Please do not enter the construction zone for your safety. Access to the corridor trail from Hauser Road will still be available up to the southern end of the construction zone. Access to the corridor trail should not be interrupted on weekends. The estimated completion time for this project is not known at this time. If you have questions, please contact the park office 336-444-5100.
Last updated on: Wednesday, June 15, 2022PARKING
If you arrive and a parking lot is full, that area is closed to further traffic. Waiting in line is not permitted. Parking on road shoulders is prohibited. To avoid crowds, please plan your visit on a weekday. If the road to the summit is closed to uphill traffic, you may park at the visitor center or visit another park access area. March-November, on weekends and holidays, you may only drive the road to the summit until that area reaches capacity. Learn more information about parking areas and alternate locations nearby that you can visit when the park is full »
SHUTTLE
March-November, on weekends and holidays, a shuttle service is scheduled to be on-site to transport visitors to the summit lot and back. Shuttle tickets are sold by the vendor in front of the visitor center at the shuttle stop. Limited tickets are available. https://ncparks.gov/pilot-mountain-state-park/home#notices
1792 Pilot Knob Park Road
Pinnacle, NC 27043
382 Boyd Nelson Road
Pinnacle, NC 27043
134 Culler Road
Pinnacle, NC 27043
622 Hauser Road
Pinnacle, NC 27043
103 Yadkin River Park Trail
Pinnacle, NC 27043
4240 Shoals Road
East Bend, NC 27018
4454 Shoals Road
East Bend, NC 27018
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9:00am to 5:00pm
Each of North Carolina’s state parks has special events during the year and news about facilities, trails, staff and park supporters. And, visitors are frequently finding new ways to explore a park’s unique cultural and natural resources. Check these pages to keep abreast of the news at your favorite parks.
UNC School of Media and Journalism students produced a segment for UNC-TV that looks at how drones are used by researchers and park staff at Pilot Mountain State Park to track animal population.
Learn more about the scheduled prescribed burns at Pilot Mountain throughout the year.
Pilot Mountain State Park uses prescribed fire or controlled burns as a management tool to restore healthy forest and grassland communities and to reduce woody fuel in the event of a wildfire. Historically, most areas of the landscape of the Piedmont of North Carolina experienced low to moderate severity fires from lightning on average once every five years. Information gathered from fire scars and tree rings on Pilot Mountain indicate that fire was at least that frequent on the exposed portions of the mountain.
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