Montgomery County

North Carolina county #94 Uwharrie National Forest – Kings Mountain Point After visiting the Thornburg Tract, I headed deeper into Uwharrie National Forest to Kings Mountain Point, which is a peninsula out into Badin Lake.  The road turns into a well maintained dirt and gravel road for about a mile before becoming paved again for…

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Randolph County

North Carolina county #93 Uwharrie National Forest – Thornburg Tract Yesterday I went to Uwharrie Mountains National Forest.  This is a smaller National Forest, at around 51,000 acres, but it still dwarfs all of the state parks.  These mountains are the oldest in North America, and sit a good bit east of the western mountains…

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