Pilot Mountain State Park
Subnational Park · Pinnacle, North Carolina
A quartzite monadnock standing 1,400 feet above the Piedmont floor with a bare rock knob on top, visible for forty miles in every direction and used as a landmark by the Saura people and then by every traveller since - which is how it got its name. A paved road runs almost to the summit. It is a National Natural Landmark, and to a certain generation it is Mount Pilot, from The Andy Griffith Show.
1792 Pilot Knob Park Road, Pinnacle, North Carolina, 27043, United States
FREE and open daily, with monthly hours from roughly 7 AM to 6 PM in winter and to 9 PM in midsummer. Closed Christmas Day. ⚠ THE SUMMIT ROAD CLOSES IN ICE AND SNOW and the gate is shut without much notice in winter. The park has two separate sections - the mountain and the Yadkin River access - about eight miles apart, and a corridor trail between them.
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