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In this continuing series on the best walks to take in North Carolina, Setzer describes the Bill Faver Lakeshore Trail. The 1.8-mile trail is located at the Piedmont Environmental Center in High Point.
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In this continuing series on the best walks to take in North Carolina, Setzer describes a walk on the boardwalk at Goose Creek State Park in Beaufort County. The 1.4 mile round trip takes walkers through the park's rugged swampland.
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In this continuing series on the best walks to take in North Carolina, Setzer describes a walk through Raven Rock State Park in Lillington. Hikers can choose a 2.6-mile walk or the 5.2-mile one which includes Campbell Creek and Lanier Falls.
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In this continuing series on the best walks to take in North Carolina, Setzer describes a walk around the historic town of Halifax in Halifax County.
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In this continuing series on the best walks to take in North Carolina, Setzer describes a walk on Jockey's Ridge. Located in Dare County, it is the tallest natural sand dune in the eastern United States.
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In this continuing series on the best walks to take in North Carolina, Setzer describes trails at Pilot Mountain State Park. Pilot Mountains stands 2,420 feet high, and the trails provides views of the surrounding area.
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In this continuing series on the best walks to take in North Carolina, Setzer describes a walk around the Moore's Creek National Battlefield. The trail is a mostly paved one mile tour of the Revolutionary War battlefield.
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In this continuing series on the best walks to take in North Carolina, Setzer describes a walk around Salisbury in Rowan County. The walk is located in the downtown area and covers 4.75 miles.
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OUR STATE magazine begins a new series on the best walks to take in North Carolina. Setzer describes the Sugarloaf Trail, which is located in the Carolina Beach State Park near Wilmington. The trail is approximately 2.6 miles, with a surface of hard and soft sand and pine straw.
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In this continuing series on the best walks to take in North Carolina, Setzer describes the Occoneechee Speedway Trail. The Occoneechee Speedway in Orange County opened in 1949. The track was one of only three East Coast tracks that measured a mile; the viewing stands could seat 17,000 fans. Many famous NASCAR drivers, including Richard Petty and Junior Johnson, raced on the dirt track. The track, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, closed in 1968 and has reopened as an historic, three-mile walking trail.
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In this continuing series on the best walks to take in North Carolina, Setzer describes a walk around Raleigh's downtown landmarks. The walk is approximately 1.6 miles and takes the walker by such places as the State Capitol on Union Square, the Executive Mansion, Victorian-era mansions in the Oakwood Historic District, and the North Carolina Museum of History, and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.
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In this continuing series on the best walks to take in North Carolina, Setzer describes a walk among the towering trees of the mountains' primeval timberland, the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest. A two-mile, figure-eight loop takes walkers past some of the country's oldest and largest trees east of the Mississippi, 450-year-old poplars, some measuring twenty feet in circumference. The forest was dedicated in 1936 to the soldier-poet Joyce Kilmer, author of “Trees,†who was killed on July 30, 1918, near the close of World War I.
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In this continuing series on the best walks to take in North Carolina, Setzer describes a walk through the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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14.Great Walks: Roan Mountain's Cloudland Trail by Setzer, Lynn Our State Vol. 75 Issue 1, June 2007
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In this continuing series on the best walks to take in North Carolina, Setzer describes a walk in the cool, refreshing air and lush evergreens of Roan Mountain's Cloudland Trail. The walk is 2.4 miles round-trip over a surface of pine needles, asphalt, stone slabs, and some roots, and it is some of the easier and most pleasant mountain walking in North Carolina.
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In this continuing series on the best walks to take in North Carolina, Setzer describes a walk around the historic town of Edenton. The town, which was once the center of colonial commerce, offers impressive architectural scenery, including St. Paul's Episcopal Church, the state's second-oldest church; the Old Ice House; and the Dixon-Powell House. The length of the walk is about two miles round trip and a map is available at the Historic Edenton Visitor Center.
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