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Moore’s Knob Tower, located in Hanging Rock State Park, is a popular destination for hikers in North Carolina. Originally a fire lookout tower, it has been replaced by a stone observation tower that offers sweeping views of the surrounding area - on clear days you might be able to see the cities of Greensboro and Winston-Salem! There are two main routes to reach the tower: a shorter hike of 3.8 miles on the Moore’s Knob Loop Trail starting at the lake, or a longer 4.5-mile loop.

Tory's Den is a cave in the Hanging Rock State Park and is named after the Tories who used the cave during the American Revolution between 1775 - 1783. You can enter the cave and take a look at the inside.

Tory's Falls is a small waterfall in an area called Tory's Den in the Hanging Rock State Park. While you can usually get a nice view of the waterfalls from the overlook, the waterfalls sometimes dry out in summer.

With an elevation of almost 2,600 feet, Moore's Knob is the highest mountain in the Sauratown Mountains. The Lookout Tower on top of the mountain nowadays serves as an observation platform and a panel provides information about the surrounding area.

Balanced Rock is one of many masterpieces of nature, that can be found in Hanging Rock State Park. To get there, it only takes a very short detour from Moore's Wall Loop Trail and Moore's Knob. Make sure to not miss the sight of such a perfectly balanced rock on top of another one.

Next to the parking lot at State Park Road, there is a lake called Hanging Rock Park Lake. The lake can be accessed from the parking lot or from the Cook's Wall Trail and Moore's Wall Trail Loop. The lake includes a small beach where you can enter the lake and refresh yourself.

Hidden Falls is a nice, little waterfall along the Indian Creek and flows over multiple stone steps. To get here, you have to follow Indian Creek Trail until the sign 'Hidden Falls'. From here it's just a short detour from the main trail.

Once you've reached Window Falls, there is a viewing point on top of the falls but you can also climb down to the lower part of the waterfall where you can climb behind the waterfall (depending on weather conditions) and get soaking wet. The falls are named for a hole in the rock, that looks like a little window.