Crowders Mountain and Kings Mountain State Parks

33 Trails 66 POIs 5 Peaks 9 Campsites 1 Picnic Site 4 Viewpoints
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Description

Crowders Mountain State Park is a 5,126-acre (20.74 km2) North Carolina state park in Gaston County, North Carolina in the United States. It is near Kings Mountain, North Carolina and on the outskirts of Gastonia, North Carolina, it includes the peaks of Crowder's Mountain and The Pinnacle. Crowders Mountain was named for Crowders Creek which originated near its base. Three hiking trails and one vehicle access trail lead to the summit of Crowders Mountain, and from the summit it is possible on a clear day to see the skyscrapers of Charlotte, North Carolina to the east. Kings Mountain State Park is a South Carolina state park located in the Piedmont region of South Carolina. It is situated in Cherokee County near the city of Blacksburg, about 40 miles southwest of Charlotte, North Carolina near Interstate 85. This large hilly park includes the Living History Farm, which is representative of a typical early 19th-century Piedmont farm. It includes a barn, cotton gin, blacksmith, and carpenter shop. The park also surrounds 65-acre (26 ha) Lake York as well as the smaller Lake Crawford. The park is adjacent to Kings Mountain National Military Park.

Trails in the Hikepack map

  • Apple Road
  • Backside Trail
  • Battlefield Trail
  • Boulders Access Spur Trail
  • Boulders Overlook
  • Brevard Street
  • Crowders Mountain Access Road
  • Crowders Trail
  • Family Camp Trail
  • Fern Trail
  • Kings Mountain Gateway Trail
  • Kings Mountain Recreation Trail (blue)
  • Lake Trail
  • Nat'l Recreation Trail (blue)
  • Pinnacle Trail
  • Ridgeline Trail
  • Ridgeline Trail (red)
  • Rocktop Trail
  • Tower Trail
  • Turnback Trail

Attractions in the Hikepack map

  • Archdale
  • Bethany
  • Boulders Access Area
  • Boulders Contact Station
  • Boulders Overlook
  • Browns Mountain
  • Crowders Mountain
  • Dixon
  • Gamble Hill
  • Henry Knob
  • Hounds Gateway Campground
  • Hounds Grill
  • Joes Mountain
  • Kings Mountain
  • Kings Mountain Gateway Trail
  • Kings Mountain National Military Park Visitor Center
  • Kings Mountain National Visitor Center
  • Kings Mountain Post Office
  • Kings Mountain State Park Camping Area
  • Kings Mountain State Park Headquarters
  • Kings Mountain Visitor Center
  • Lake Trail
  • Linwood Road Access
  • Midpine
  • Mountain View
  • Walmart Neighborhood Market
  • White Plains

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 ©Heisenburg CA https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crowdersmtn_July07.jpg CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).