Merchants Millpond State Park
Subnational Park · Gatesville, North Carolina
A two-hundred-year-old millpond in the far north-eastern corner of the state, seven hundred acres of black water standing among bald cypress and tupelo gum hung with Spanish moss, backing into the older and wilder Lassiter Swamp. It is one of the few places in North Carolina where a coastal-plain swamp forest can be paddled rather than looked at, and there are alligators in it - at the very northern edge of their range.
176 Millpond Road, Gatesville, North Carolina, 27938, United States
FREE and open daily, with monthly hours roughly 8 AM to 6 PM in winter and later in summer. Closed Christmas Day. CANOE AND KAYAK RENTAL IS SEASONAL and limited - ring ahead rather than assuming. The campground and canoe-in backcountry sites are reservable. Some areas may be closed at times; the park posts current conditions.
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