North Carolina State Park Planning Tools
North Carolina State Park Interactive Map
North Carolina State Park Maps and Brochures
North Carolina State Park Annual Pass Program
North Carolina State Historic Sites Event Calendar
North Carolina State Park Educational Resources
(See TONS More Super Cool Resources Under the Charts Below!)
North Carolina State Park Junior Ranger Program – Collect 40 Different Badges!!
- NC State Park Junior Ranger Booklets (Color)
- NC State Park Junior Ranger Booklets (B&W)
- NC State Park Junior Ranger Activities
- NC State Park Junior Ranger Badges
ecoEXPLORE Program (Badges and Prizes for NC Residents)
Year of the Tree Program and Resources
- How Trees Grow Poster
- Leaf and Bark Rubbings Activity
- Leaf Rubbings 101 Activity
- Native Plant Uses Field ID Cards
- Tree Factory – Project Learning Tree Activity
- Tree Cycle Poster
- U.S.D.A. Word Search Activity
- U.S.D.A. Word Search Answer Key
- Goods from the Woods Handout
- Tree Jokes
NC Science Festival Activities
Common Forest Trees of North Carolina Booklet
North Carolina State Park Nature Video Collections
Ask a Ranger Podcast Collection
Parks with * Have Museums, Exhibits, and/or Nature Centers
North Carolina State Historic Sites
All North Carolina State Park Educator Resources
NC Culture Student Resources by Park
- Discover More (reading page) – Carolina Beach Grades 3 to 5
- Discover More (reading page) – Carolina Beach Grade 6
- Explore Outdoors – Plant Adaptations
- YouTube Video – Rare Plants with Unusual Adaptations
Falls Lake State Recreation Area
- Discover More (reading page) – Forces in Nature
- Glossary – Forces in Nature
- Discover More (reading page) – Science of Bikes
- Glossary – Science of Bikes
- Explore Outdoors – Forces and Motion
- YouTube Video – Forces and Motion: How We Move at Falls Lake State Recreation Area
- Discover More (reading page) – Waterfalls
- Glossary – Waterfalls
- Explore Outdoors – Waterfalls
- YouTube Video – Elevation and Monadnocks: How Hanging Rock State Park Got Its Waterfalls
- Discover More (reading page) – Box Turtle
- Explore Outdoors – Box Turtle
- Glossary – Box Turtle
- YouTube Video – What’s On The Box? Eastern Box Turtles at Haw River State Park
- Discover More (reading page) – Wetlands
- Explore Outdoors – Wetlands
- Glossary – Wetlands
- YouTube Video – Explore Wetlands at Haw River State Park
- Discover More (reading page) – Lumber River Navigation
- Discover More (reading page) – Lumber River Blackwater
- Explore Outdoors – Lumber River Navigation
- Explore Outdoors – Lumber River Blackwater
- YouTube Video – Lumber River State Park: Navigating the Lumber River
- YouTube Video – Sweet Tea River? How the Lumber River in North Carolina Turns Black Naturally
- Discover More (reading page) – Wildflowers
- Glossary – Wildflowers
- Explore Outdoors – Wildflowers
- YouTube Video – Park Ranger Discusses Unique Wildflowers at Medoc Mountain State Park
- Discover More (reading page) – Mountain Rock Star
- Glossary – Geology
- Explore Outdoors – Backyard Geology
- YouTube Video – Rock Formations at Stone Mountain
Weymouth Woods Sandhills Nature Preserve
- Discover More (reading page) – Longleaf Ecosystem
- Glossary – Longleaf Ecosystem
- Tarheel Toast (reading page)
- Explore Outdoors – Looking at Life Cycle Stages
- Explore Outdoors – Backyard Bird Evidence
- Discover More (reading page) – Woodpecker Wonders
- Glossary – Woodpecker Wonders
- YouTube Video – Longleaf Pine Ecosystem at Weymouth Woods Sandhills Nature Preserve
- YouTube Video – Weymouth Woods and the RCW
There are some EXCELLENT Resources For Each of These!!
- Year of the Beetle
- Year of Fire
- Year of the Snake
- Year of the Fish
- Year of the Spider
- Centennial Year
- Year of the Amphibian
- Year of the Lepidoptera
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