Fonta Flora County Park and Connector Trailhead — Attraction in Morganton

The Fonta Flora Trail is a nice, cleared trail with few roots and rocks. It is open to biking and walking. Cyclists are to yield o pedestrians, but we found it simple to just step aside and let the cyclists pass. Everyone on the trail was courteous. The trail map looks simple enough, but there is a least one caveat for the loop trail: from the parking lot, you take the blue connector trail to the orange trail and follow that around with the lake on your left. This will loop around and lead you to another blue connector that will bring you back close to where you started. That is what the map shows. What the map doesn't show is that there is in another blue trail over halfway through the loop that leads nowhere. It is blazed with blue feathers all the way to where it just abruptly ends. This is not shown on the map. A dead-end trail should not be blazed the same as any other trail. We had to turn around and walk back to the orange loop. We headed back the way we came, because we could not be certain that this was the only error in map. We planned on the 3.7 mile loop hike, not a 10 mile hike, which is what the full orange trail is. Now that we know that, we will hike that trail again - there is a gorgeous lake view overlook which is...

Fonta Flora State Trail is beautiful 4.5 mile hike around Lake James in Burke County, NC.

The long term vision for the trail supposedly is to connect Downtown Asheville with Downtown Morganton. The first section to be built will be a 29-mile loop around one of North Carolina's premier recreation destinations, Lake James.

This trail is part of the North Carolina state park system in Buncombe, McDowell, and Burke Counties, North Carolina in the United States, and it consists of 90 acres of conservation land and 19 miles designated multi-use trail.

The lake is named for tobacco tycoon and benefactor of Duke University James Buchanan Duke. The lake, with surface elevation of 1200 ft, lies behind a series of 4 earthen dams.

An interesting side note, this movie's been involved in at least two Hollywood movies. In 1992 Lake James was a filming site for the movie "The Last of the Mohicans", where it doubled as Lake George, NewYork and a replica of Fort Henry was constructed. A backdrop of Lake James was also used for the final scenes of the movie "The Hunt for Red October".

Located in Western North Carolina around 30 miles from where we live, we frequent this lake and hike area religiously. There is beautiful scenery and great hiking for...

If you go the south point way you will get lost and you will just go farther and farther away from the lake . I dont think i would go back because the trail that we went on took a long time and we had to be picked up by another family member i think we would have passed out if we walked back . So then we went back and went the other way the better way the Linville Access Way we where able to see lake james and it was so much better than our first expeirence i recommed that when you go and see the first like sign thing choose Linville Access and go right and your expeirence will be a...