New River Valley Byway
Stone Mountain State Park, NC

Named for a 600 foot granite dome, Stone Mountain State Park is home to a beautiful mountain as well as rivers for trout fishing and forests for camping. Rock climbing and hiking on Stone Mountain offer opportunities to explore the natural qualitites of this state park.

At the park's Mountain Culture Exhibit, visitors view a little of North Carolina's Appalachian history. The earliest mountain settlers used many of the items displayed here to survive. The Hutchinson Homestead is another historic exhibit within the park that displays an old time log cabin, barn, blacksmith shop, corncrib, and meant house. And be sure to visit one of the original churches in the county, the Garden Creek Baptist Church.