North Carolina Wildernesses

Swanquarter Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 128
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=585
Wilderness | Swanquarter Wilderness
State | NC
Comment | <Null>
Date of Last Update | 2/25/2019
WID | 585
Abbreviated Name | Swanquarter
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Swanquarter.jpg
Acreage | 8784
Description | Established in 1932, Swanquarter National Wildlife Refuge encompasses around 16,500 acres of islands and coastal marshland on the north side of Pamlico Sound. The Swanquarter Wilderness makes up more...
Agency | FWS
joinerID | 585FWS
Designated | 1976
ORIG_FID | 41374

Birkhead Mountains Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 445
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=49
Wilderness | Birkhead Mountains Wilderness
State | NC
Comment | <Null>
Date of Last Update | 12/27/2021
WID | 49
Abbreviated Name | Birkhead_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Birkhead .jpg
Acreage | 5065
Description | Most people haven't even heard of the Uwharrie Mountains, much less seen these ancient volcanic landforms, considered the oldest range on the North American continent. Although eroded by eons of time and...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 49FS
Designated | 1984
ORIG_FID | 44281

Catfish Lake South Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 525
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=105
Wilderness | Catfish Lake South Wilderness
State | NC
Comment | <Null>
Date of Last Update | 12/27/2021
WID | 105
Abbreviated Name | Catfish_Lake_South
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/NoPicture.gif
Acreage | 8490
Description | North Carolina's Croatan National Forest is a unique coastal ecosystem set between the Atlantic Ocean and the Neuse River and interlaced with the sea's nurseries, called estuaries, where oysters, shrimp...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 105FS
Designated | 1984
ORIG_FID | 44362

Ellicott Rock Wilderness
Wilderness | Ellicott Rock Wilderness
State | GA/NC/SC
Abbreviated Name | Ellicott_Rock
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/EllicottRock.jpg
Description | Ellicott Rock Wilderness sits at the southern tip of the romantically hazy Blue Ridge Mountains. Congress designated Ellicott Rock Wilderness in 1975, later expanding it in 1986. The wilderness uniquely...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 176FS

Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness
Wilderness | Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness
State | NC/TN
Abbreviated Name | Joyce_Kilmer_Slickrock
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/joycekilmer.jpg
Description | Joyce Kilmer acquired some fame as a journalist, serving on the staff of the New York Times from 1913 to 1918, but most people remember him as the author of the poem "Trees" ("I think that I shall never...

Linville Gorge Wilderness
Wilderness | Linville Gorge Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Linville_Gorge
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/LinvilleGorge.jpg
Description | Native Americans scalped explorers William Linville and his son in 1766, an unhappy ending for a family whose name is now associated with one of the most scenic river gorges in the eastern United States....

Middle Prong Wilderness
Wilderness | Middle Prong Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Middle_Prong
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/MiddleProng.jpg
Description | Pioneers grabbed up this area, once part of the Cherokee Nation, starting in 1796. After settlement, most of the land was purchased, first by a paper company in the early 1900s, then by a lumber company....

Pocosin Wilderness
Wilderness | Pocosin Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Pocosin
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/pocosin.jpg
Description | Native Americans called it a pocosin, which in their language meant "swamp on a hill." A more accurate assessment of this seemingly flat area that rises slightly in the center might be "raised bog." Over...

Pond Pine Wilderness
Wilderness | Pond Pine Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Pond_Pine
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/PondPine.jpg
Description | The smallest of North Carolina's designated Wildernesses is just south of Great Lake in the middle of Croatan National Forest. The lake is acidic, the Wilderness a trailless pocosin, and the few who visit...

Sheep Ridge Wilderness
Wilderness | Sheep Ridge Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Sheep_Ridge
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SheepRidge.jpg
Description | All that remains of Sir Walter Raleigh's lost colony is the word croatan, Algonquian for "council town," carved on a tree on Roanoke Island. This raised bogland or pocosin lies in the heart of Croatan...

Shining Rock Wilderness
Wilderness | Shining Rock Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Shining_Rock
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/shining_rock.jpg
Description | Named for a micaceous rock outcrop, Shining Rock became one of the original components of the National Wilderness Preservation System in September 1964, a few months after garnering designation as a Wild...

Southern Nantahala Wilderness
Wilderness | Southern Nantahala Wilderness
State | GA/NC
Abbreviated Name | Southern_Nantahala
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SouthernNantahala.jpg
Description | The Cherokee Indians thought of the Blue Ridge Mountains as the Great Blue Hills of God. These original inhabitants named the shady forests and deep, dark gorges Nantahala, or Land of the Noonday Sun....