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Pilot Mountain
Pilot Mountain is a remnant of the ancient Sauratown Mountains. A quartzite monadnock, this rugged mountain rock has survived for millions of years while the elements have eroded surrounding peaks to a rolling plain.
Located along US-52 North of Winston-Salem North Carolina at GPS coordinates 36.338207, -80.456115 rising 1400 feet about the Piedmont Plateau.
View looking North from the scenic lookout along US-52 between King and the town of Pilot Mountain. Click on the picture to visit WallsLovePicture.com where you can purchase prints. Use coupon code Save10Dollars for a $10 discount on any order of $100 or more, not including shipping.
Pilot Mountain is capped by two prominent pinnacles. Big Pinnacle, with walls of bare rock and a rounded top covered by vegetation, rises 1,400 feet above the valley floor, the knob jutting skyward more than 200 feet from its base. Big Pinnacle is connected to Little Pinnacle by a narrow saddle. Visitors have easy access to the top of Little Pinnacle where the view encompasses hundreds of square miles of the Piedmont and the nearby mountains of North Carolina and Virginia.
Peter Jefferson, father of President Thomas Jefferson, and Joshua Fry mapped the mountain in 1751.
Pilot Mountain became North Carolina's 14th state park in 1968. Prior to that time, the mountain was a commercial tourist attraction.
The Pilot Mountain Preservation and Park Committee proposed the establishment of Pilot Mountain as a state park in order to protect it and the surrounding area from further commercial development.
Big Pinnacle