Eight miles of trails at Goose Creek State Park lead visitors through a broad range of coastal experiences including live oaks draped in Spanish moss a cypress swamp.
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A park with multiple personalities, featuring a perfectly restored Civil War-era fort, museum-quality coastal education center and unspoiled shoreline for swimming, surf fishing and beachcombing.
Fort Fisher State Recreation Area offers visitors the opportunity to alternate between nearly six miles of pristine beach and trails through salt marsh brimming with wildlife.
A collective of seven access areas scattered around the shoreline of an undeveloped, 12,000-acre reservoir just minutes from Raleigh and Durham.
As its name suggests, impressive cliffs overlooking the Neuse River are the defining feature of Cliffs of the Neuse State Park, which also includes a swimming lake and other diverse habitats.