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Map of Kings Mountain National Military Park in South Carolina. The park is highlighted in green and surrounding terrain is other shades of green, yellow, or beige. Roads and highways are represented in red or white encased with black lines.

Extended Description

Kings Mountain National Military Park is roughly crown shaped with a flat bottom along the southeast and three uneven points along the northwest. Kings Mountain State Park neighbors the military park to the east and, just over the North Carolina state line, Crowders Mountain State Park stretches like a backslash up into the top right corner. Together the three parks create a diagonal angled down into the lower left corner of the map.

State Route 216 travels across the map and through Kings Mountain National Military Park, entering from the middle of the central peak of the crown and becoming Park Road before exiting near the southeast corner. The Park Road passes the unpaved Yorkville-Shelbyville Road, National Park Administration Office, Battlefield Trail, and a Visitor Center with a ranger station. Represented with a purple dashed line, the Historic Trace of Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail follows the same path as Park Road, though the latter dips south for a short stretch about halfway across the park.

The faint-green Kings Mountain State Park immediately east of this has horse and hiking trails, Equestrian parking, Equestrian and group camp primitive campgrounds, and a Camping and day-use area with a campground and picnic area near a Nature Trail. The Living History Farm Trail stretches east to near the State Park headquarters and unpaved roads that lead to Living History Farm, Cherokee Group Camp, and York Group camp.

Crowders Mountain State Park in North Carolina is shaded pale green. Sites there include Boulders Contact Station with a ranger station, Ridgeline Trail, and Pinnacle Trail, which leads to a campground and Group Backpack Camping primitive campsite. In this area, Turnback Trail leads to a site with a picnic area and restrooms, Fern Trail, parking, Lake Trail, more parking, and a Park Office with a ranger station. Crowders Trail continues north to connect with Rocktop, Tower, and Backside Trails. At the northernmost tip of this park is Linwood Road Access with a ranger station, parking, restrooms, phone, and picnic area.

The yellow-shaded town of Kings Mountain is west of here across Interstate 85, which travels diagonally and parallel to the collective direction of the parks. Grover, also shaded yellow, is southwest of Kings Mountain just above North Carolina’s border with South Carolina.

Legend

The legend at the bottom center of the map reads as follows:

Black dashed line for Hiking trail,

Black dotted line with a horse icon for Horse and hiking trail, and

White line encased in black for Unpaved road.

Two columns of symbols represent Picnic area, Ranger station, Campground, Primitive campsite, Parking, Restrooms, and Phone. A scale to the right measures distances of 0.5 and 1 kilometer and 0.5 and 1 mile.