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Every city should have a green space where you can go and lose yourself for a few hours. In Charlotte, it’s the Campbell Creek and McAlpine Creek greenways, which run 4.1 miles along McAlpine and Camp
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The Mecklenburg County Parks and Recreation Department boasts a diverse system of trails, with 35 miles of trails in five nature preserves and another 22 miles in eight urban greenways. This award-win
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This is a classic “eat-your-broccoli-and-I-promise-you-something-really-good-for-dessert” kind of trail. And the broccoli is pretty darn tasty as well. At the top there is an aerie roost. A jumble of
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The view atop Kings Pinnacle, like that atop Crowders Mountain, is largely to the north and east and takes in parks of the business variety, as well as interstates, factories, and other signs of man.
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As the closest, most dramatic mountain park to Charlotte, “crowders” may say it all. Despite occasional crowded weekends, a variety of existing trails and a major new expansion of acreage and ambitiou
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We hike for many reasons. One is to explore the unknown, such as a rare Piedmont prairie. You wouldn’t know it today, but prairies were once common throughout the Piedmont. With a few small exceptions
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Reedy Creek Park and Nature Preserve offers 10 miles of trail within some 727 acres of rolling Piedmont. Trails ranging from a quarter-mile to a mile show you around. A recommended loop starts on the
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Here, you encounter Piedmont perfect among a relatively mature hardwood forest with little understory. There are good sightlines, though the rich canopy prohibits any vistas. You will, however, get a
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Morrow Mountain State Park is a wooded, hilly area where more than 30 miles of trails wander over and between modest mountains. That means these forested summits give a pretty good shot at solitude. D
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When I asked the park ranger to recommend a loop hike encompassing the popular High Shoals Waterfall, the park’s signature attraction, she took the trail map and outlined two options. There was the Hi
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The Birkhead is a funny wilderness. Signs at trail intersections and occasional blazes are helpful, true, but not in the true spirit of a wilderness. This wilderness also sports stone and mortar fire
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The Uwharrie Mountains host one of the state’s less-appreciated natural playgrounds. More than 130 miles of hiking and mountain biking trails and miles of waterways all within a couple of hours drive
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Uwharrie National Forest is an increasingly attractive “best kept secret” where state-designated Scenic Byways meander through the undulating remains of North America’s oldest mountain range. The stat
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