Contents
OVERVIEW MAP
OVERVIEW MAP KEY
DEDICATION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PREFACE
RECOMMENDED HIKES
INTRODUCTION
Central
1 Arboretum Explorer Loop
2 Destination Center Track Trail
3 Haw Creek Overlook
4 Lake Powhatan
5 Rocky Cove
North
6 Big Firescald Knob
7 Craggy Gardens and Craggy Pinnacle
8 Douglas Falls
9 Hawkbill Rock
10 Hickey Fork Loop
11 Lover’s Leap
12 Max Patch
13 Rattlesnake Lodge
East
14 Bearwallow Mountain
15 Catawba Falls
16 Florence Nature Preserve
17 Mount Mitchell Circuit
18 Mount Mitchell High Loop
South
19 Carl Sandburg’s Connemara Farms
20 DuPont State Forest Four Falls
21 John Rock
22 Lake Julia
23 Looking Glass Rock
24 Mills River Loop
25 Turkey Pen Loop
West
26 Black Balsam Knob High Loop
27 Cold Mountain
28 Cradle of Forestry
29 Graveyard Fields
30 Moore Cove Falls
31 Mount Pisgah via Buck Spring Lodge
32 Pink Beds Loop
33 Sam Knob
34 Shining Rock
35 Skinny Dip Falls
APPENDIX A: OUTDOOR RETAILERS
APPENDIX B: HIKING CLUBS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MAP LEGEND
