Fires Creek

Cherokee County

Acreage: 50

Year: 2017

This inholding is now part of the Nantahala National Forest and offers access to the popular Fires Creek Rim Trail.  More than 85% of the property is in the Fires Creek watershed and extends across the Valley River Mountains into Cherokee County. Fires Creek is designated as an Outstanding Resource Water, the highest designation available in North Carolina.

Read more about the project and the now-successful campaign to raise funds to acquire it here, and the acquisition by the USFS here.