Park office hours: 8am-4:30pm Monday through Friday. Pleasant Green Access opens at 8:30am and closes 30 minutes earlier than the park. Cole Mill access area opens at 9am and closes 30 minutes earlier than the park. Park Hours: November-February 8am-6pm March, October 8am-7pm April, May, September 8am-8pm June-August 8am-9pm. The picnic area at Cole Mill Access and the park office have parking spaces provided for persons with disabilities. Pathway from parking lot to park office is accessible as well as the entrances and the restrooms and water fountain. Cole Mill Access has a handicapped-accessible picnic shelter, picnic tables, restrooms and water fountain. A perfect 1½ mile birding with 5 habitats(old field, meadow, forest trail, forest clearing, and river forest).įacilities: Details taken from the park's web site at. Follow the river until you get to the first right hand trail and continue with all right turns until you come out on the back side of the meadow.
So are warblers in spring starting with the Yellow-throated Warbler that appears after the tent caterpillars and before the leaves come out. Look for Indigo Buntings in the spring and summer.įollow the river to the right on a fisherman's trail. Look for salamander eggs in the winter and the larvae in earliest spring. The wet area in the middle of the trail I call Eno Lake. There is a wet and shrubby area here that is great for Swamp and Song sparrows. Enter quietly as hawks and vultures sometimes use the towers as a roost. The end of the forest trail empties into the power line clearing, forest clearing habitat. Look for Ovenbirds and Hooded Warblers in the spring and summer and Hermit Thrushes in the winter. It's where the Kinglets hang out in the winter time and a beautiful walk in any season. There is an opening at the back between the old house and storage shed that takes you to a forest trail. Pecan trees here are a good place to look for Scarlet Tanagers in season. There are hedges around the meadow that is perfect for White-throated Sparrows and Juncos.
The service road takes me to a meadow habitat where I find Bluebirds, Phoebes and Cardinals. Cedar waxwings swoop down in huge flocks to feed on the cedar berries in the winter. Brown Thrashers and Mockingbirds are there all summer. Prairie Warblers, Indigo Bunting, Blue Grosbeaks advertise territory during the spring. This is where the Eastern Red Cedars are kept busy in every season. At the last parking lot I follow the service road by the old field habitat. My favorite birding area in the park is at the main park at the extreme end of Cole Mill Road. Make a U-turn after coming off the exit ramp, go under the interstate a quarter mile, turn right on Pleasant Green Road, then turn left at the intersection with Cole Mill Road.Ĭoordinates for Google Earth/Maps: 36 04 26 N, 79 00 22 W From I-85 North, take Exit 170 between Hillsborough and Durham.
Getting there:From I-85 South to Durham, take the Cole Mill exit, turn Right, after 5 miles the road will enter the park. Of the 450+ species seen in North Carolina, 152 have been recorded in the park and 62 of these are known to have nested there. Bird watching is my favorite pastime at the Eno. Camping, backpacking, canoeing, fishing are just a few of the things you can do in the park. There are over 18 miles of hiking trails that lead you through hardwood forests and by the softly murmuring river. The park consists of nearly 2700 acres of land which provides a green space for a rapidly growing area.
Overview: Eno River State Park is located in Durham and Orange Counties. More info, including maps and access: “Paddling Eastern North Carolina,” Paul Ferguson (2007, Pocosin Press).Triangle Birder's Guide: Eno River State Park - Few's Ford Access Eno River State Park - Few's Ford Access If you prefer to avoid the peanut gallery, you can portage this drop river right.įor a complete description of this stretch, including hazards, consult “Paddling Eastern North Carolina” (see below). Adding to the challenge of this big drop just above the take-out is the presence, river left, of one of Eno River State Park’s most popular trails, Buckquarter Creek, where hikers can pause on a boulder overlook and catch the whitewater action below. A nice Class II a mile from the end and the capper, a stout four-foot drop just before the take-out. The rapids become more frequent from there, with a Class II thrown in every now and then. The stretch begins mellow, with a handful of Class I rapids in the first mile. This stretch, which runs just east of Hillsborough to the Fews Ford Access in Eno River State Park has a number of plucky passages that, when the water’s up, are good fun. For a Piedmont river, the Eno is surprisingly montane, especially it’s upper reaches above West Point on the Eno city park in Durham.
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