Stone Mountain State Park, Roaring Gap, NC

Date of Stay:  Thursday June 8 – Sunday June18, 2017 (10 nights)

Rate:  $23/ night during week; $27/night weekends and holidays

Website: Stone Mountain State Park (NC)
   3042 Frank Parkway
   Roaring Gap, NC 28668
   336-957-8185

Description:  (Follow directions on the website due to steep and curvy roads on Oklahoma Road.) Located in the northwest corner of NC about an hour from Winston Salem, this State Park has several miles of great hiking and a Parkway road that has a creek running along beside it.  The campground even has a creek running through the middle of it.  It also has paved roads throughout. Loop A is the old part of the cg with small gravel sites and no hookups. Loop C has paved sites but no hookups.  Loop A is where we stayed (sites 76 and 67) and it has level, paved sites with W/E 50A.  Absolutely NO Verizon reception, however, so no phone or internet!  Other than that, it’s a great place.

Trash and Recycle:  Dumpsters located near the dump station as you exit the cg.  Currently no recycle in the cg, but I did find some bins at the trail head parking lots that take aluminum cans.

Activities:  I enjoyed several hikes; one to Stone Mountain Falls, another to the Summit of Stone Mountain, and yet another to Wolf Rock/Cedar Rock.  The views were beautiful!  We rode along the parkway and stopped at a few pull offs along the creek.  Gin was able to walk to Widow’s Creek Falls and also spent a bit of time at the Hutchinson Homestead (log home and barns built in the 1850’s) which is at the base of the huge granite dome of Stone Mountain.  We saw at least one deer per day here.  We drove over to Mount Airy about an hour away one day to eat at Snappy Lunch.  It is Andy Griffiths’ home town and the downtown area is all about nostalgia.

 

On site 76

 

View from the patio of 76                           Big Sandy Creek in the cg

 

On site 67

 

  

 

Displays at the Visitor Center

 

Lots of steps (300 or more) on the way to Stone Mountain Falls

   

From the top                         People enjoy the cool pool at the base of the 200 foot waterfall

 

Views on the way to the summit

 

Switchbacks at the steep parts                     Summit at 2305 ft elevation

 

Not alone at the summit…                             Beautiful views!

 

Views!!                                              View from my lunch rock!!

 

Wolf Rock Trail leads to another nice view

 

Cedar Rock has nice views and the trail

 

 

Hutchinson Homestead at the base of Stone Mountain

 

Gin enjoys the views… we actually saw three people rappelling down the rock face

 

Gin creek side along the parkway            Garden Creek Baptist Church on the pkwy

   

Widow’s Creek Falls