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Goose Creek offers a civil way to explore a swamp. Eight miles of trail take you past estuaries and through fresh and brackish swamps that will remind you of your...

Camping at Pettigrew State Park is like camping back in time. The campground is located on the north side of Lake Phelps, also home of one of the best old...

Hagen Stone is perhaps best-known outside the Triad for its cross-country trails, which host various local and regional meets. But the park is also popular for its various other recreational...

West Morris Campground The Uwharrie National Forest has epic adventures that beg an overnight stay — if for no other reason than you’ll be too pooped to drive home afterward....

Kings Mountain State Park adjoins the Kings Mountain National Military Park and is connected to North Carolina’s Crowder’s Mountain State Park via the 12-mile Ridgeline Trail. A living history farm...

Parker’s Creek It’s not the biggest campground at Jordan Lake (that would be Poplar Point, with 579 campsites), it doesn’t have the greatest concentration of sites with hookups (that would...

PIPER CREEK CAMPGROUND / COLE MILL ACCESS PARK It takes a little effort to get to this campground — it’s 1.2 miles on the Bobbitt Hole Trail from the Cole...

Need to pad your log book numbers? Maybe get in a faster-than-normal trail run? Or maybe up your miles? Salem Lake Trail is a 7-mile loop around its namesake lake...

Ever run with someone who gets on your case for being obsessed with distances and times? Does your GPS watch really need to chime every mile? Can’t you take a...

Tory’s Den Trail Need some hill work? Some really good hill work? Hanging Rock is where Piedmonters from the east go to get in some simulated mountain training. “Simulated” in...

Pilot Mountain is a tale of two workouts. Need some mountain training? The 7.2-mile loop created by stringing together the Mountain, Grindstone and Grassy Ridge trails offers up-and-down around the...

If Salem Lake Trail (see Salem Lake Trail entry) is your easy day, Sauratown Trail is where you go to pay your dues. It’s not so much the elevation: despite...

Difficulty: Moderate Distance: 10 minutes from downtown Winston-Salem Length: 2-8 miles Time to complete: 30 minutes to 1.5 hours Address: 100 Reynolda Village City: Winston-Salem State: N.C. Zip: 27106 Latitude:...

Sugarloaf Dune Trail How much variety can you pack into a 3-mile training run? A lot, at Carolina Beach State Park. The trailhead for the Sugarloaf Dune Trail is at...

In the beginning, the Blue Cay Trail network was the domain of mountain bikers. And it wasn’t exactly a legal domain; more of a recreational eminent domain. But thanks to...

Yes, it’s a ways to go for five miles. But the pay-off on the Bay Trail is well-worth it. Running counterclockwise, the trail begins through dense coastal forest before quickly...

13 miles of bike & bridle trail Umstead’s bike & bridle trail is the core of the Umstead 100, one of the most popular ultra trail runs in the country....

20 miles of singletrack trail Umstead State Park offers Triangle runners the best of both worlds. Runners of all persuasions take advantage of the 13 miles of finely crushed gravel...