North Carolina State Parks recently announced that attendance grew by 4% statewide last year, with most of the nine sites on the coast contributing to that growth.
North Carolina is poised to be “The Great Trails State” and the McDowell Trails Association is making plans to celebrate McDowell County as “A Great Trails County" in 2024.
Though it has been a statewide campaign, the initial steps of celebrating Year of the Trail in North Carolina during 2023 started in Burke County. In March 2021, Beth Heile,