Chimney Rock State Park and Buffalo Creek Park

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Description

Chimney Rock State Park is a North Carolina state park in Chimney Rock, Rutherford County, North Carolina in the United States. It has hiking trails for all skill levels, views of the Devil's Head balancing rock and a 404-foot (123 m) waterfall, Hickory Nut Falls. Its most notable feature is a 315-foot (96 m) rock formation, a granite monolith, Chimney Rock, accessible by elevator and providing views of the park and surrounding countryside.

Trails in the Hikepack map

  • Buffalo Mountain Loop
  • Burroughs Road
  • Creekside Trail
  • Dogwood Trail
  • Exclamation Point Trail
  • Four Seasons Trail
  • Great Woodlands Adventure Trail
  • Hickory Nut Falls Trail
  • Huckelberry Trail
  • Hummingbird Cove
  • Meadowside Trail
  • Mountain Vista Trail
  • Outcroppings Trail
  • Rhododendron Trail
  • Ridge Trail
  • Skyline Trail
  • Trail
  • Weed Patch
  • Worlds Edge Road

Attractions in the Hikepack map

  • Bald Mountain
  • Bluerock Mountain
  • Camp Occoneechee
  • Cane Creek Mountain
  • Cedar Knob
  • Chimney Rock
  • Chimney Rock Mountain
  • Chimney Rock Park Ticket Plaza
  • Cloven Cliffs
  • Deerfield
  • Devil's Head
  • Eagle Rock
  • Exclamation Point
  • Fairfield Mountain
  • Fairfield Mountains
  • Golf Estates
  • Grady's Animal Discovery Den
  • Hickory Nut Falls
  • Ingles
  • Lake Lure
  • Meadows Parking
  • Nanny Mountain
  • Ottanola
  • Picnic Pavilion
  • Quail Ridge
  • Rattlesnake Knob
  • Rich Mountain
  • Roaringrock Mountain
  • Round Top Mountain
  • Rumbling Bald Mountain
  • Rumbling Bald Trail Parking
  • Shumont
  • Shumont Mountain
  • Sky Lounge
  • Stony Mountain
  • Sugarloaf Mountain
  • The Pinnacles
  • Weed Patch Mountain
  • Worlds Edge

Copyright

The PDF and JPG maps are released by Hikepack under the Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
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 ©Dsdugan https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2015_18_105_devils_head.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).