11 state parks with horseback riding in North Carolina

11 of North Carolina’s 46 state parks list horseback riding. See these parks on a map

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Carvers Creek State ParkTwo accesses northwest of Fayetteville: Long Valley Farm, once James Stillman Rockefeller's winter retreat…FreeDay use only
Gorges State ParkOver 8,000 acres of temperate rainforest on the Blue Ridge Escarpment, holding 26 waterfalls, plunging river…FreeCampsites · full hookupsCabinsBook a campsite
Hanging Rock State ParkA Civilian Conservation Corps park whose trails reach mountain views, rock outcrops, waterfalls, and a cave…FreeCampsitesCabinsBook a campsite
Medoc Mountain State ParkA 325-foot remnant of a range that towered 350 million years ago, now laced with trails for hikers, bikers…FreeCampsites · full hookupsCabinsBook a campsite
Morrow Mountain State ParkA summit above the Yadkin River and Lake Tillery, in country where Native people worked rhyodacite into tools…FreeCampsitesCabinsBook a campsite
Pilot Mountain State ParkThe geologic knob that beacons over the country northwest of Winston-Salem, with accesses on both the rugged…CampsitesBook a campsite
Raven Rock State ParkA 150-foot crystalline outcrop above the Cape Fear River, reached by bluff trails lined with mountain laurel…FreeCampsites · full hookupsCabinsBook a campsite
South Mountains State ParkBackcountry where the Appalachian Mountains meet the Foothills, rising to 3,000 feet past an 80-foot…FreeCampsitesBook a campsite
Stone Mountain State ParkA 600-foot granite dome designated a National Natural Landmark, with the restored mid-19th-century Hutchinson…FreeCampsites · electric & waterBook a campsite
Weymouth Woods Sandhills Nature PreserveLongleaf pines, some of them centuries old, towering over wiregrass in a remnant of the forest that once…FreeDay use only
William B. Umstead State ParkA wooded retreat ten miles from downtown Raleigh, with an extensive hiking and multiuse trail network and…CampsitesBook a campsite

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