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Al Buehler Trail Are you a stickler for detail when you run? Do you like to know how your splits for your first, third and fifth quarter mile compare to...

This relatively new (2004) 391-acre park includes 7 miles of hiking trail and 7 miles of mountain bike trail. While the annual Little River Trail Run http://www.trailheads.org/lrtr/ includes the singletrack...

There’s a lot of opportunity in Duke Forest, which isn’t one forest, but six tracts comprising 7,060 acres in Durham, Orange and Alamance counties. While the main use of the...

Cabe Lands Access to West Point on the Eno city park This run has it all: length, variety, scenery, a fast finish. Length: At 8.6 miles one way, you’ll need...

For decades, the 750-acre woodland known both as the Horace Williams Tract and Carolina North, was the unofficial playground of folks from Chapel Hill and Carrboro. About 10 years ago,...

Add University Lake to the many ways the University of North Carolina has enhanced the livability of Chapel Hill. Constructed by the university in 1932, the lake is Chapel Hill’s...

Robeson Creek boat access For the most part on Jordan Lake, if you want a quiet paddle you need to stick to the small fingers that explore off the main...

Farrington Point boat access The best flatwater paddling in the state lies Down East, in the various blackwater rivers and swamps that snake through the coastal plain and into the...

Swepsonville River Park to Saxapahaw This dammed 5.8-mile stretch of the Haw River is good, reliable paddling year round, but it may be best in summer. Put in at Swepsonville...

McIver Landing to Deep River Park Rare is the smaller river in the Piedmont that is nearly always runnable, but that’s the case with the Deep River. (The Deep, by...

There are precious few hiking opportunities in northern Durham and Orange Counties counties, which is unfortunate. The Piedmont hills here rise a little higher, the air temperature a wisp cooler...

There’s hiking in the Piedmont and there’s hiking along the Haw River. But wait, isn’t the Haw in the Piedmont? Technically, yes. Look at a map and there it is,...

OCCONNEECHEE MOUNTAIN LOOP TRAIL You’ll find more ecological escape packed into this 190-acre preserve on the outskirts of Hillsborough than anywhere else in the Triangle. Occoneechee Mountain has five distinct...

Difficulty: Strenuous (length) Distance: 30 minute drive from downtown Chapel Hill Time to complete: 3 to 4 hours Address: 6101 Cole Mill Road City: Durham State: N.C. Zip: 27705 Latitude:...

Johnston Mill Nature Preserve is like a “best-of” of hiking in the western Triangle. It’s got the requisite rocky creek: a 2-mile stretch of New Hope Creek penetrates this 296-acre...