Jordan Lake State Recreation Area

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Description

Jordan Lake State Recreation Area is a North Carolina state park spanning Chatham County, and Wake County North Carolina in the United States. It comprises 4,558 acres (18.45 km2) of woodlands along the shores of 13,940-acre (56 km2) Jordan Lake. The Jordan Lake State Recreation Area is divided into several smaller areas: Farrington Point, Crosswinds, White Oak, Poplar Point, Ebenezer Church, New Hope Overlook and Poes ridge along the eastern shoreline and Robeson Creek, Vista Point, Seaforth, Parkers Creek, and the Jordan Lake Educational State Forest along the western shore. Swimming, boating, hiking, fishing, hunting, birdwatching and picnicking are popular activities making up 3 Boat ramps, 1 canoe launch, 2 swim beaches, 2 play grounds, 3 fishing piers (including an ADA accessible one), a marina, and 5 campgrounds. Facilities are managed by North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation, North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, North Carolina Division of Forest Resources, US Army Corps of Engineers, Wake County Parks and Recreation, and a privately managed marina. Events held at the park include monthly skywatching sessions offered by park rangers, the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center in nearby Chapel Hill, and volunteer amateur astronomers from the Chapel Hill Astronomical and Observing Society at the Ebenezer Church Recreation Area in the park.

Trails in the Hikepack map

  • American Tobacco Trail
  • Area B Camping
  • Blue Route
  • Lake Path
  • Lower Haw River Trail
  • Mountains to Sea
  • Poplar Trail
  • Red Route
  • Red Route Connector
  • White Oak Creek Greenway
  • Wildlife Trail

Attractions in the Hikepack map

  • American Tobacco Trail New Hill Access
  • American Tobacco Trail Wimberly Access
  • Bells
  • Canoe Portage
  • Cruizers
  • Farrington
  • Seaforth
  • Shelter 1
  • Shelter 2
  • Shelter 8
  • Visitor Assistance Center
  • Visitor Center
  • Wilsonville
  • Wilsonville General Store

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 ©Gerry Dincher https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jordan_Lake_from_Ebenezer_Church_shore.jpg CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/).