Saturday, February 28, 2026

NC - Dupont State Recreational Forest

Hiked since November 2025:

  1. Fawn Lake Loop Trail
  2. Fawn Lake Road
    • 1.0 miles, easy. Gravel trail, passes next to Fawn Lake. Swimming spot for people and dogs. Krumm approved. Might have missed the end
  3. Bridal Veil Falls Road
    • 0.6 miles, easy. Gravel trail, passes by a barn, leads to wooden overlook. Continue on to base of falls.
  4. Shelter Rock Trail
    • 0.6 miles, easy. Dirt trail.
  5. Holly Road
    • 1.3 miles, easy. Dirt trail even though it's called road. No people on it, because everyone parked at Hooker Falls is going to see the waterfalls. Ends at a paved road.
  6. Hooker Falls Trail
  7. Triple Falls Trail
    • 11/29/2025 Agile Trekker: Hooker Falls and Triple Falls, Dupont State Recreational Forest
    •  0.4 miles, moderate. Wide trail. Busy trail. Better on weekdays. Moore Cemetery is now fenced off with a do not enter sign. Triple Falls area not good for dog swimming due to cascades in the river. Can leave trail and hike on rocks to the base of the falls. Hike to the top of Triple Falls Trail to see all 3 falls.
  8. Jim Branch Trail
  9. Isaac Heath Trail 
  10. Wilkie Trail
    • 12/3/2025 Agile Trekker: Corn Mill Shoals west loop, Dupont State Recreational Forest
    • 1.6+ miles, moderate. This trail starts at paved Cascade Lake Road, continues on what was called the west half of the Micajah trail, continues on what was called the Buck Ridge Road Trail. There is a great picnic spot on a rock slab, that is shown as the west side of the Micajah Trail. Controlled burn inside the loop on November 13, 2025.
    • 12/27/2025 Agile Trekker: Wilkie Trail and Cannon Creek Falls, Dupont
    • 2.1 miles, moderate. The trail starts at Rich Mountain Road. Side trail to Cannon Creek Falls (too small for dog swimming). Nice rock outcrops. This section previously called Cannon Creek Trail and Buckhorn Creek Trail. Great place for a weekend when the rest of Dupont is crowded.
  11. Micajah Trail
  12.  Rock Quarry Road
    • 12/3/2025 Agile Trekker: Corn Mill Shoals west loop, Dupont State Recreational Forest
    • 1.3 miles, moderate. Pine tree corridor near paved road. Don't miss the short unnamed spur trail to the north to rocky cliffs. Where Rock Quarry Road leaves the loop, it gets rougher towards the park boundary. Purple rock at the park boundary. Controlled burn inside the loop on November 13, 2025.
  13. Hickory Mountain Road
    • 12/25/2025 Agile Trekker: Guion Farm Loop, Dupont
    • 0.9 miles, easy. Dirt road with tall pine trees. Near the north end is a picnic shelter next to a meadow. Nice place to sit and throw a dog toy for a few minutes.
  14. Hooker Creek Trail
    • 12/25/2025 Agile Trekker: Guion Farm Loop, Dupont
    • 1.1+ miles, moderate. Part of former White Pine Road trail has been added to Hooker Creek Trail. Trail splits into two one-way sections. We took the route in the woods. No signs of Hooker Creek from our re-route.
  15. Boundary Trail
    • 12/25/2025 Agile Trekker: Guion Farm Loop, Dupont
    • 0.3 miles, easy. Short half loop. Gaia shows one end as Guion Trail, but both sides where it hits Hickory Mountain Road have signs calling it Boundary Trail.
  16. Tarkiln Branch Road
  17. Thomas Cemetery Trail
    • 1.6 miles, moderate. Mostly flat. Has a very cool tree. Has Thomas Cemetery on it. Thomas Cemetery Road
  18. Flat Rock Trail
  19. Shoal Creek Trail
  20. Rifle Trail

Trails we couldn't find:

  1. Buck Ridge Road (this is part of the Wilkie Trail)
  2. Hooker Falls Road (this doesn't exist, Hooker Falls Trail is a 2020 reroute)
  3. Locust Trail (this is part of Isaac Heath Trail)
  4. Moore Cemetery Road (this is now called Hooker Falls Trail)
  5. Scarlet Oak Trail (unblazed) - try taking from Fawn Lake Road
  6. Shortcut Trail (read that this is decommissioned) 
  7. White Pine Road (renamed Ruffled Grouse Trail)
  8. Cannon Creek Trail (now called Wilkie Trail)
  9. Buckhorn Creek Road (now called Wilkie Trail). Unmaintained to the west of Cannon Creek Trail.

Closed trails:

  1. Barn Trail, 0.5 miles easy (CLOSED)
  2. Bridal Veil Overlook Trail (CLOSED)
  3. Cart Trail (CLOSED)
  4. Flatwoods Trail (CLOSED)
  5. Grassy Meadow Trail (CLOSED)
  6. Lake View Loop Trail (CLOSED)
  7. Nooks Trail (CLOSED)
  8. Sandy Trail (CLOSED)
  9. Table Rock Trail (CLOSED)
  10. Turkey Knob Trail (BRIDGE CLOSED but can do 1/2 mile out and back)

To hike:

  1. Airstrip Trail, 1.1 miles, difficult
  2. Base of the Falls Spur Trail, 0.2 moderate
  3. Big Rock Trail
  4. Briery Fork
  5. Buck Forest Road
  6. Burnt Mountain Trail
  7. Camp Summit Road
  8. Cascade Trail
  9. Cedar Rock Trail
  10. Chestnut Oak Road
  11. Conservation Road
  12. Corn Mill Shoals Trail
  13. Covered Bridge Trail
  14. Farm House Trail
  15. Frank Street
  16. Grassy Creek Falls Trail (BRIDGE CLOSED)
  17. Grassy Creek Trail
  18. Guion Trail
  19. Hickory Mountain Loop Trail
  20. High Falls Loop
  21. Hilltop Trail
  22. Joanna Road (closed between Grassy Creek Trail and Pinnacle Mountain Road)
  23. Lake Imaging Road
  24. Lake Julia Road
  25. Laurel Ridge Trail
  26. Little River Trail
  27. Longside Trail
  28. Mine Mountain Trail
  29. Oak Tree Trail
  30. Pine Tree Trail
  31. Pitch Pine Trail
  32. Plantation Trail
  33. Poplar Hill Loop Trail (NORTH PORTION CLOSED)
  34. Poplar Trail
  35. Reasonover Creek Trail
  36. Ridgeline Trail
  37. Ruffled Grouse Trail (formally called White Pine Road)
  38. Base of Falls Spur Trail
  39. Rocky Ridge Trail
  40. Sheep Mountain Trail 
  41. Shoals Trail
  42. Stone Mountain Trail 
  43. Switchback Trail
  44. Three Lakes Trail
  45. Turkey Knob Road
  46. Twin Oaks Trail
  47. Twixt Trail
  48. White Pine Loop Trail
  49. Wintergreen Falls Trail

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