Falls Lake State Recreation Area

61 Trails 132 POIs 1 Peak 5 Campsites 12 Picnic Sites 1 Viewpoint
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Description

Falls Lake State Recreation Area is a North Carolina state park in Durham and Wake Counties, North Carolina in the United States. Near Wake Forest, North Carolina, it covers 5,035 acres (20.38 km2) along the shores of 12,410-acre (50.2 km2) Falls Lake. Falls Lake hiking trails on the south side are part of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail which stretches from Clingmans Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains to Jockey's Ridge State Park on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Camping along the Falls Lake portion of the trail is only available at Shinleaf Recreation Area in Wake County and Rolling View Recreation Area in Durham County. Trails are easy to moderate on some steep ridges. The Beaver Dam bike trails at Falls Lake are easy to intermediate and have trails for everyone. Trail heads are accessible from inside park entrance at Beaverdam Recreation Area only.

Trails in the Hikepack map

  • 1 (North Carolina)
  • Azalea Loop Trail
  • Beaver Point Trail
  • Blue Dot Trail
  • Blue Jay Point Trail
  • Boyce Mill Road
  • Capital Area Greenway System
  • Duck Cove Trail
  • Epps Forest Loop
  • Expert loop
  • Falls Lake Trail
  • Forest Ridge MTB Trails
  • Hidden Rocks Loop
  • Honeycutt Creek Greenway
  • Laurel Loop Trail
  • Long Leaf Trail
  • Mountains to Sea
  • Mountains to Sea Connector
  • Mountains-to-Sea Trail
  • Neuse River Trail
  • Office Connector
  • Pond Loop
  • Sandy Point Trail
  • Tailrace Trail

Attractions in the Hikepack map

  • Adam Mountain
  • Annie Wilkerson Nature Preserve Park
  • Blue Jay Center for Environmental Education
  • Blue jay point county park
  • Falls
  • Falls Lake Trail
  • Falls Lake viewpoint
  • Hickory Hill Boat Ramp
  • Long Leaf Trail
  • MST - possum campsite
  • Osprey Nest Campground
  • Picnic Pavillion
  • Redwood
  • Redwood campsite foe thru hiker's
  • Sandy Plain
  • Shinleaf Group Camping
  • Visitor Assistance Center
  • Yorkshire center

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 ©Ildar Sagdejev https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2008-03-09_Falls_Lake_boat_ramp.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).