ALL NORTH CAROLINA STATE PARKS: GENERAL STATUS OF FACILITIES AND GUIDELINES WHEN VISITING PARKS
Posted on: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 - 2:15pm |
**FACILITIES AND PARKING ARE LIMITED. NO OVERFLOW PARKING IS ALLOWED. **
Bring water as the fountains are off. Park office and park office restrooms are closed.
Summit restrooms are open but are closed periodically throughout the day to be cleaned.
Campground is closed through at least July due to lightning damage to sewer system.
Executive Order 147 effective at 5 p.m. on Friday, June 26 requires wearing face coverings when in public places, indoors or outdoors, where physical distancing of 6 feet from other people who aren’t in the same household or residence isn’t possible, unless an exception applies.
PARKING: Open parking areas have limited capacity. Parking on road shoulders is prohibited. If you arrive and a parking area is full, consider that area closed. When parking lots fill, there will be no waiting in line to get in. All cars will be turned away.
Capacity for parking areas:
Top of the mountain – 80 cars
Park office – 30 cars
Pinnacle Hotel Road – 50 cars
Pilot Creek Trailhead – 15 cars
Hauser Road – 40 cars
Ivy Bluffs Trailhead – 20 cars
Ivy Bluffs canoe launch – 10 cars
Portions of Ledge Spring Trail and top rope climbing adjacent to the summit parking lot will be closed at times in July due to construction at the overlook.
Last updated on: Thursday, July 2, 2020Due to culvert collapse the Corridor bridle trail can only be ridden to midway.
Last updated on: Tuesday, June 23, 2020
1792 Pilot Knob Park Road
Pinnacle, NC 27043
134 Culler Road
Pinnacle, NC 27043
622 Hauser Road
Pinnacle, NC 27043
382 Boyd Nelson 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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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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