Northwest North Carolina Lakes and Recreation including South Pacolet River Reservoir Number One
5 Featured Places
Cowpens National Battlefield is recognized by historians as one of the most important of the American Revolution. Kings Mountain National Military Park commemorates a pivotal and significant victory by American Patriots over American Loyalists during the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War. Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail commemorates the campaign leading to the battle of Kings Mountain by following the Revolutionary War route of Patriot militia men from Virginia, today's eastern Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia to the battle site at Kings Mountain National Military Park in South Carolina.Also in this area: Schiele Museum of Natural History & Lynn Planetarium, York County Culture and Heritage Commission.
Communities in the Gastonia and Hickory, NC Area
Gastonia Hickory Shelby Morganton Lenoir Gaffney Newton Lincolnton Kings Mountain Mount Holly St. Stephens Belmont Forest City Conover South Gastonia Cherryville Bessemer City Sawmills Long View Granite Falls Boiling Springs Valdese Rutherfordton Tega Cay Spindale Clover Valley Falls Boiling Springs Mountain View Bethlehem Gamewell Dallas East Gaffney Maiden Hudson Lake Wylie Stanley Cramerton Salem Icard Cajah's Mountain Lowell Cowpens Ranlo Drexel Blacksburg Mayo Connelly Springs Taylorsville India Hook Hildebran Lowesville Northlakes Stony Point Rutherford College Glen Alpine Claremont Chesnee Belwood Kingstown Light Oak High Shoals Grover Catawba Lawndale Patterson Springs McAdenville Fallston Boger City Polkville Ellenboro Brookford Lattimore Rhodhiss Ruth Bostic Waco Cedar Rock Mooresboro Casar Earl Smyrna Spencer Mountain
Man-made lakes, ponds, dikes, and dams in the area
Second Broad Watershed Structure #2 Morganton Watershed Dam Muddy Creek #20 Second Broad Watershed #14 Muddy Creek #2-c 2nd Broad River Watershed #23 Muddy Creek #15 Muddy Creek Watershed #16 Second Broad River W.S. #10-a 2nd Broad River Watershed #22 Muddy Creek #4 Muddy Creek #19 Muddy Creek #8 Muddy Creek #3 2nd Broad River Watershed #16 Table Rock Fish Hatchery Dam Muddy Creek #6-b 2nd Broad River W.S. #11-5(lawing) Second Broad Watershed Structure #11-25 Second Broad Watershed Structure 11-19 Second Broad Watershed 11-18a Second Broad Watershed 11-14 Spruce Pine Water Supply #2 2nd Broad River W.S. #11-16(brevard) Second Broad Watershed Stucture 11-24b Second Broad Watershed 11-6a Second Broad Watershed 11-20a 2nd Broad River W.S. #11-15(brevard-ross) Second Broad River Watershed, Site 23
Adjacent Areas
- Go North to Boone, NC, Hungry Mother Lake, W Kerr Scott Reservoir, W. Kerr Scott Dam And Reservoir, Grayson Highlands State Park, etc.
- Go South to Columbia, SC, Lake Murray, etc.
- Go West to Asheville, NC, Table Rock Reservoir, Lake Toxaway, Blue Ridge Parkway-North Carolina, Cherohala Scenic Byway - North Carolina, etc.
- Go East to Charlotte, NC, High Rock Lake, Badin Lake, National Forests in North Carolina: Croatan-Nantahala-Pisgah-Uwharrie National Forests, Pee Dee National Wildlife Refuge, etc.