Jocassee Gorges, Gorges State Park and Surroundings

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Description

Gorges State Park is a 7,709-acre (31.20 km2) North Carolina state park in Transylvania County, North Carolina in the United States. The land, along Jocassee Gorges, was purchased by the state from Duke Energy Corporation in 1999. It is North Carolina's westernmost state park and one of the state's newest. The park is adjacent to part of the Pisgah National Forest and the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission's Toxaway Game Land. Gorges State Park provides the principal access to the Horsepasture River on these adjoining public lands. Gorges State Park is open for year-round recreation, including, camping, hiking, mountain biking, and fishing. Primitive camping is available in several different natural environments. The Ray Fisher Place campground is located in the Grassy Ridge Access area. It is a hike-in campground with six primitive campsites, each with a picnic table, fire ring and lantern hook, and it is a 0.75-mile (1.21 km) hike from the Rainbow Falls Trail-head. Another camping area is near the shores of Lake Jocassee, along the Foothills Trail. These campsites are also primitive and hike-in. Dispersed camping is also permitted in the adjoining Pisgah National Forest, and backpackers may register and leave their vehicles in the park. Lake Jocassee is a deep man made lake which forms much of the park's southern boundary, and it is open to trout and bass fishing. The streams of Gorges State Park are all designated Wild Trout Waters. Many miles of trails are open to hiking, mountain biking and horseback riding.

Trails in the Hikepack map

Abner Creek Road
Alewine Road
Auger Hole Road
Auger Hole Trail
Bear Creek Camp Road
Bearwallow Valley Trail
Bee Cove West
Big Bottom Road
Big Laurel Road
Big Rock Mountain Road
Big Rock Mountain Summit Trail
Big Rock Summit Trail
Bill Morgan Road
Billy Branch Road
Boat Access Spur Trail
Boone Trail
Bootleg Road
Camp Adger Road
Cane Creek Road
Canebrake Road
Canebrake Trail
Carrick Creek Loop
Carrick Creek Loop Trail
Cedar Rock Trail
Chestnut Mountain Road
Chukka Patch Road
Coon Branch
Crooked Pine Road
Dammo Branch Road
Dawkins Flat Road
Dew Falls Trail #281
Dismal Creek Road
Dogwood Creek Road
Eastatoe Creek Trail
Emory Gap Toll Road
Falls Connector Trail
Foothills Trail
Foothills Trail, Sloan Bridge to Whitewater Falls
Foothills Trail: Sassafras to Ceasars Head
Frog Valley Road
Gap Connector
Horse Mountain Cut Road
Horse Mountain Road
Horse Pasture Road
Hunter Camp Road
Jackie's Ridge Road
John's Jump Trail
Laurel Fork Creek Road
Little Laurel Road
Long Ridge Road
Lower Whitewater Falls Trail
Mill Creek Falls Spur Trail
Mill Creek Pass
Mill Creek Road
Mills Creek Falls Spur Trail
Mills Creek Pass
Musterground Road
Naturaland Way
Newman Road
Oscar Chappell Road
Palmetto Trail
Park Road
Petty Lane
Picnic Connector Trail
Pigeon Gap Road
Pinnacle Falls Trail
Pinnacle Mountain Trail
Pinnacle Mountain trail
Poplar Hollow Road
Prince Cove Road
Rainbow Falls Trail
Raymond Fisher Trail
Ridge Trail
Rock Creek Road
Rocky Bald Loop Trail
Round Mountain Loop Trail
Round Mountain Road
Salad Patch Road
Schoolhouse Road
Shack Hollow Road
Shooting Tree Ridge Road
Smith Place Road
Spencers Alley
Sphinx Rock Trail
Standing Rock Road
Table Rock Trail
Tater Hill Road
Thompson River Road
Trillium Trail
Twin Falls Trail
Uplands Road
Whispering Falls Road
Widow's Bottom Road
Wild Hog Road
Willis Fields Road

Attractions in the Hikepack map

Aunt Sue's Country Restaurant
Bald Knob viewpoint
Bear Wallow Hollow
Bear Wallow Springs
Bearcamp Creek Falls
Bearwallow Picnic Shelter
Big Falls
Big Rock Mountain
Bigspring Mountain
Bohaynee
Boones Creek
Bootleg Mountain
Brushy Knob
Bryant Mountain
Bully Mountain
Burnt Mountain
Bursted Rock Mountain
Buzzard Mountain
Buzzard Roost Mountain
Caesars Head
Cane Brake
Cane Mountain
Carlton Mountain
Carrick Creek Falls
Cedar Creek Mountain
Cedar Rock Mountain
Cedar Rock Parking Area
Chestnut Mountain
Chimneytop
Claypole Mountain
Crossroads Mountain
D.E.W. Falls
Devils Hole Creek Falls
Diana Mountain
Dolves Mountain
Double Spring Mountain
Double Spring Mountain Falls
Drawbar Cliffs
Dug Mountain
East Fork
Eastatoe
Eastatoe Falls
Ellicott's Rock
Euphoria Falls
Fall Creek Waterfall
Fisher Knob
Flatrock Mountain
Foothills Trail
Foothills Trail and Whitewater River Access Area Parking
Fourth Falls
Frozen Creek Parking Area
Frozen Knob
Frozen Mountain
Gallbuster Mountain
Gauley Falls
Gilstrap Mountain
Gordon Mountain
Gorges State Park Visitor Center
Governor's Rock
Grassy Knob
Green Creek Falls
Grindstone Mountain
Hester Mountain
Hickorynut Mountain
High Falls
High Knob
Horse Gap Mountain
Horse Mountain
Howell Mountain
Indian Camp Mountain
Jocassee
Jocassee Post Office (historical)
John's Jump
Jordan Mountain
Joshua Mountain
Jumping Off Rock
Laurel Fork Falls
Laurel Fork Mountain
Licklog Mountain
Limber Pole Mountain
Line Runner Ridge
Little Pink Mountain
Little Rock Mountain
Little Table Rock Mountain
Lower Whitewater Falls
Lower Whitewater Falls Platform
McKinney Mountain
McKinneys Mountain
Middle Fork
Mill Creek Falls
Mill Creek Falls Spur Trail
Misery Mountain
Mosley Mountain
Musterground Mountain
Nancy Mountain
Nature Center
Nimmons
Odle Mountain
Palmetto Trail parking
Peach Orchard Mountain
Pickens Mountain
Pine Mountain
Piney Mountain
Pink Mountain
Pinnacle Falls
Pinnacle Falls Trail
Pinnacle Mountain
Pinnacle Mountain Falls
Powelltown
Rainbow Falls
Raymond Fisher Campground
Reid
Rich Mountain
Ridge Haven
Rock Bottom Falls
Rock Mountain
Rocky Bald Mountain
Rocky Bald Parking Area
Rocky Bottom
Rocky Bottom Retreat and Conference Center for the Blind
Rocky Knobs
Rocky Mountain
Round Mountain
Roundtop
Roundtop Mountain
Sassafras Mountain
Sassafras viewpoint
Sharp Top Mountain
Slicking Mountain
Smeltzer Mountain
Spring Bluff Falls
Sunfish Mountain
Sunset
Table Rock
Table Rock Trail
Table rock view point
Tater Hill
The Stool
Tommys Knob
Toxaway Falls
Trail shelter and view point
Trillium Trail Parking Area
Triple Falls
Turkey Cock Mountain
Turner Hill
Turtleback Falls
Twin Falls
Twisting Pine Mountain
Union
Upper Whitewater Falls
View point
Virginia Hawkins Falls
Visitor Center Parking
Wadakoe Mountain
Walker Mountain
West Gate Road Parking, Table Rock State Park, South Carolina
White Owl Falls
White Pines Picnic Shelter
Whiteoak Mountain
Whitewater Falls Overlook
Whitewater Falls Parking Area
Whitewater Falls Viewing Platform
Whitewater Mountain
Whitewater Pines
Woodruff Mountain
Wright Creek Falls

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Contains data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) under the Open Database License (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/). Topographic map based on elevation data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Aerial imagery available from the U.S. Geological Survey. Description text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License). Cover image ©Washuotaku https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gorges_State_Park_12.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).