Paddling is a great way to explore the Eno River. Opportunities for both flatwater and whitewater paddling are available. View this PDF with more details and suggested trips for paddling the Eno River. Check the Eno River levels before you go: Hillsborough gauge Cole Mill Road gauge Roxboro Road gauge Park staff have established a […]
Join us for Creek Week!
Durham Creek Week is March 14-21, 2020! Activities will be available throughout the Triangle to inform residents about our local creeks, rivers, and lakes and about how to keep them healthy. Join a litter clean-up, go on a canoe adventure, and visit any of our nearby nature preserves. The Eno River Association is proud to […]
Spring Wildflower Hikes
The Eno River Association offers hikes each Sunday from January through mid-May and a special hike in June for National Trails Day. The Eno River Association hosts its own series of Hikes and Outings to bring all the citizens of the Eno to the river to enjoy, explore, and learn more about the places we […]
Happy 50th Birthday to Eno River State Park!
Check out our time lapse video, mapping the growth of the Eno River State Park over 50 years. It’s time to light the candles and sing happy birthday! This year, on August 22, Eno River State Park is celebrating the big 5-0. It’s a significant milestone in our journey to protect and conserve the natural, […]
Mill Moving
[…] the mill restored, the mill building reconstructed, and a corn-grinding operation on the site. Visitors will be able to watch an authentic mill in action and chances are they will be able to buy waterground corn meal and homemade bread in the mill building. -Excerpted from an article in Bo-waters’ fall-winter 1974 issue of Crossbow
A Community of Men and Mills
[…] backdrop of working machines, in themselves fascinating and challenging, the people met. They came to grind their grain and saw their logs, to mend their ploughs and buy their provisions, to shoe their horses and gin their cotton. The sheriff came at appointed times to collect their taxes. The politicians came to make their […]
Occoneechee Speedway
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 […]