Eno River Association
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Address: 2437 Lebanon Road, Efland, NC 27243. Map it. Hours: Dawn to Dusk, 7 days a week Amenities and Attractions: The Panther Branch Natural Area is owned and managed by the Eno River Association. It is a 56-acre preserve open for low-impact recreational uses, such as hiking along approximately 2 miles of trail, picnicking, and […]
Address: 5101 N Roxboro St, Durham, NC 27704 Hours: 8 a.m. to dusk. This 404-acre park is located along a two-mile stretch of the scenic Eno River, six miles north of downtown Durham. You can enjoy a leisurely picnic and stroll around the grounds, or take a hike through the woods on one of the […]
Hours: 8 AM until a half hour after sunset Address: Main entrance is by the Eno River Parking Deck at the end of Nash and Kollock Street, adjacent to the Gateway Center. The Riverwalk is a paved, accessible, urban greenway located in downtown Hillsborough that stretches about 1.8 miles along the Eno River between Gold […]
Hours: Dusk to Dawn Address: 320 Elizabeth Brady Rd, Hillsborough, NC 27278 Occoneechee Speedway was one of the first two NASCAR tracks to open and is the only track remaining from the inaugural 1949 season. The site is now heavily forested in 40 year old pines and sycamores. Visible still are the grandstands which once […]
Hours: Dawn to Dusk Address: Various, check website for entry points The NC Mountains-to-Sea Trail stretches 1175 miles across North Carolina from Clingmans Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains to Jockey’s Ridge on the Outer Banks, stopping at many of our state’s most beautiful places along the way. One of those places, at least we […]
Address: 301 Little River Park Way Rougemont, NC 27572 Hours: November to February 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.March and October 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.April and September 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.May to August 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.Closed: Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day The Little River Regional Park & Natural Area features […]
Address: Neighborhood access only Hours: Dawn to Dusk The Eno River Association’s Blue Indigo Preserve is 23 acres of rare diabase plant habitat in the Lower Eno. This preserve has two quarter-mile neighborhood trails, one located on Stanley Road in Durham and the other on Old Oxford Road in Durham. Since 2003 the Eno River […]
Address: Old Oxford Rd, Durham, NC 27712 Hours: Dawn to Dusk Penny’s Bend Nature Preserve is a natural area owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and managed by the N.C. Botanical Garden. This 84-acre preserve is a peninsula, bounded on 3 sides by the Eno River as it flows eastward towards Falls Lake. Penny’s […]
Address: 625 Virginia Cates Rd, Hillsborough, NC 27278 Hours: 8 a.m. to dusk The following information was assembled as background just before the dedication of the Occoneechee State Natural Area. Although Occoneechee mountain has been a part of the state park since that dedication on July 20, 1999, this background continues to provide meaningful detail […]
Since 2003 the Eno River Association has worked with the NC Plant Conservation Program and NC Botanical Garden on the Diabase Sill Project Partnership. This Partnership is named for the distinct geological formation of hard igneous rock found within the Lower Eno River basin in Durham. The basic soils weathered from the underlying Diabase rock […]
Park Office Address: 6101 Cole Mill Road Durham, NC 27705 Hours: Vary by location Activities and Attractions: Partnering with the Nature Conservancy, the State of North Carolina, the City of Durham, and Durham and Orange Counties, the Eno River Association was able to create the Eno River State Park in 1973. Since then, the Association has worked […]
Address: 4214 Highland Farm Road, Hillsborough, NC 27278 Hours: Dawn to Dusk, 7 days a week Amenities and Attractions: The Confluence Natural Area is owned and managed by the Eno River Association. It is a 270-acre preserve open for low-impact recreational uses, such as hiking along 2.25 miles of trail, picnicking, and photography. The Confluence […]
!["In 1758 William Few moved south to the Eno to escape the frosts of Maryland. The ford near his gristmill was a cross-roads for a pastoral community big enough by 1760 to warrant a school teacher. Many years later, that amiable man was gratefully recalled by one of his 30 pupils, the younger William Few, Signer of the United States Constitution.
His school many have been the beginning of the Piper-Cabe School. It is also possible that this was the field school, far from home, that William Holden walked to as a child and remembered with passionate commitment as Governor of North Carolina. The large wooden schoolhouse, according to living memory, stood on a knoll overlooking the ford, next to the Piper graveyard knoll, near a good spring from which the school children fetched water and within view of the Piper-Dixon House at the ford."
Text source: 1983 Calendar
[image description: black and white photo of the Piper-Dixon (also called the Piper-Cox) house pre restoration]](https://www.enoriver.org/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)