Mountain Island Educational State Forest

Mountain Island Educational State Forest
North Carolina State Forest
Named for: Mountain Island Lake

Country	United States
State	North Carolina
County	Lincoln & Gaston

Coordinates	35°23′15″N 080°59′21″W / 35.38750°N 80.98917°W / 35.38750; -80.98917Coordinates: 35°23′15″N 080°59′21″W / 35.38750°N 80.98917°W / 35.38750; -80.98917

Area	2,000 acres (809.4 ha) ^[1]

IUCN category	VI - Managed Resource Protected Area

Nearest city	Mount Holly, North Carolina

Location of Mountain Island Educational State Forest in North Carolina
Website: Mountain Island Educational State Forest

Mountain Island Educational State Forest (MIESF) is a 2,000-acre (8.1 km²) North Carolina State Forest in Mount Holly, North Carolina.^[1]

References

1 2 "NC Forest Service Natural Assets" (PDF). North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services. January 23, 2014. p. 20. Retrieved September 24, 2015.

External links

Official website

Protected areas of North Carolina

Federal

National Parks	Great Smoky Mountains

National Historic Sites	Carl Sandburg Home Fort Raleigh

National Memorials	Wright Brothers

National Military Parks	Guilford Courthouse

National Battlefields	Moores Creek

National Parkways	Blue Ridge Parkway (Crabtree Falls Craggy Gardens Cumberland Knob Doughton Park E.B. Jeffress Park Julian Price Memorial Park Linville Falls Moses H. Cone Memorial Park Mount Pisgah Waterrock Knob)

National Trails	Appalachian Trail Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail

National Seashores	Cape Hatteras Cape Lookout

National Marine Sanctuary	Monitor

National Estuarine Research Reserve	Currituck Banks Rachel Carson Masonboro Island Zeke’s Island

National Forests	Cherokee Croatan Nantahala Pisgah Uwharrie

National Wildlife Refuges	Alligator River Cedar Island Currituck Mackay Island Mattamuskeet Pea Island Pee Dee Pocosin Lakes Roanoke River Swanquarter

Wilderness Areas	Birkhead Mountains Catfish Lake South Ellicott Rock Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Linville Gorge Middle Prong Pocosin Pond Pine Sheep Ridge Shining Rock Southern Nantahala Swanquarter

Wilderness Study Areas	Craggy Mountain Harper Creek Lost Cove Overflow Snowbird

Wild and Scenic Rivers	Chattooga River Horsepasture River Lumber River New River Wilson Creek

State

State Parks	Carolina Beach Carvers Creek Chimney Rock Cliffs of the Neuse Crowders Mountain Dismal Swamp Elk Knob Eno River Fort Macon Goose Creek Gorges Grandfather Mountain Hammocks Beach Hanging Rock Haw River Jockey's Ridge Jones Lake Lake James Lake Norman Lake Waccamaw Lumber River Mayo River Medoc Mountain Merchants Millpond Morrow Mountain Mount Mitchell New River Pettigrew Pilot Mountain Raven Rock Singletary Lake South Mountains Stone Mountain William B. Umstead

State Recreation Areas	Falls Lake Fort Fisher Jordan Lake Kerr Lake

State Natural Areas	Hemlock Bluffs Masonboro Island Mount Jefferson Occoneechee Mountain Theodore Roosevelt Weymouth Woods See also List of North Carolina State Natural Areas

State Lakes	Bay Tree Lake Jones Lake Lake Phelps Salters Lake Singletary Lake Lake Waccamaw White Lake

State Trails	Deep River French Broad River Mountains-to-Sea Yadkin River

State Rivers	Horsepasture River Linville River Lumber River New River

State Forests	Bladen Lakes DuPont Clemmons Holmes Jordan Lake Mountain Island Rendezvous Mountain Turnbull Creek Tuttle

State Historic Sites	Alamance Battleground Charles B. Aycock Birthplace Historic Bath Bennett Place Bentonville Battleground Brunswick Town / Fort Anderson C.S.S. Neuse and Governor Caswell Memorial Charlotte Hawkins Brown Memorial Duke Homestead Historic Edenton Fort Dobbs Fort Fisher Historic Halifax Horne Creek Living Historical Farm House in the Horseshoe North Carolina Transportation Museum President James K. Polk Historic Site Reed Gold Mine Somerset Place Stagville State Capitol Town Creek Indian Mound Tryon Palace Historic Sites & Gardens Zebulon B. Vance Birthplace Thomas Wolfe Memorial

NC Coastal Reserve	Kitty Hawk Woods Emily and Richardson Preyer Buckridge Buxton Woods Permuda Island Bald Head Woods Bird Island

Other

Nature centers	List of nature centers in North Carolina

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