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We figure that if a trail network is good enough for major high school and collegiate cross-country meets, then it’s probably a pretty cracker jack run. In 2012 alone, Hagan...

The Nat Greene Trail hugs the east bank of Lake Brandt, running from the Lake Brandt Marina south to Old Battleground Avenue. It is one of the oldest and most...

Deep River Trail This highly recommended run originates out of the Piedmont Environmental Center, hugs the west bank of High Point Lake then loops back inland and catches the paved...

(Note: Information is pegged to Bur-Mil Park on Lake Brandt, at the epicenter of the Watershed Lakes Trails.) You’re to be forgiven if, when looking at a map of the...

Lake Brandt is one of three main watershed lakes rimming the north side of Greensboro. The lakes were created for drinking water, revered in these modern times for their vast...

Shallow Ford Natural Area All these Greensboro lakes are great, but isn’t there a nice, mellow river around here to paddle? Of course. And with the upper Haw River, you...

If you’re looking at an old map and scratching your head over the whereabouts of Randleman Regional Reservoir, no, you are not going crazy: It may well not be there....

Greensboro is something of the Minnesota of the Piedmont: while it may not have quite 10,000 lakes, it seems to have a lot. Most of the attention is focused on...

City Lake Park High Point Lake is one of those bodies of water that seems much bigger than it is. By the measuring stick, it’s 340 acres of water surface....

If you love a good lake hike, you’ll like hiking at the Piedmont Environmental Center in High Point, a 376-acre preserve, a goodly portion of which is enveloped by High...

Mayo Mountain Ridge Trail Think Mayo River and you think whitewater paddling. When the river’s up, the 18-mile-long (in North Carolina) Mayo boasts some of the Piedmont’s most challenging rapids;...

Face it, Hanging Rock, prominent knob from which this state park gets its name, is the star attraction here. But at just over a mile, making a beeline from the...

A wilderness area? Less than an hour from downtown? Well … sorta. The Birkhead Wilderness is a 4,790-acre nub on the northern tip of the Uwharrie National Forest. Though the...

Greensboro’s three watershed lakes north of town — Brandt, Townsend and Higgins — offer 42 miles of natural surface trail, trail that exposes hikers to all manner of flora and...