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This site holds no file of mapped access sites for North Carolina, so it can say where the public ground on Cove Creek is and not where the landings are. 5 blocks of public land front Cove Creek, and 2.5 of its 12.5 mapped miles run through them. The nearest town we map is Boone, 7.4 miles from the river's midpoint in a straight line, with the water north-west of the town.
Nearest towns
| Town | Distance | Direction to the river |
|---|---|---|
| Boone | 7.4 mi | north-west |
| Wytheville | 59.2 mi | south-west |
Straight-line distance from the river's midpoint, and the direction you would travel from the town to reach it. The roads are not mapped here, so there is no drive time — a travel time nobody measured is the kind of number that gets somebody lost.
We have no mapped access sites for North Carolina. That is an absence of data and not a statement that there are none — the public ground below is what this page can answer with.
Public land on the water
- Tater Hill Plant Conservation Preserve — another state agency, 1.0 mi of this river, 1,588 acres in all, access unrecorded
- Elk Knob Game Land — state fish and wildlife agency, 0.47 mi of this river, 721 acres in all
- Nc Land And Water Fund Project — another state agency, 0.39 mi of this river, 54,528 acres in all, access unrecorded
- Watauga County Open Space — joint city-county land, 0.39 mi of this river, 625 acres in all
- Nc Land And Water Fund Conservation Agreement — another state agency, 0.3 mi of this river, 31,107 acres in all, access unrecorded
Ownership from PAD-US as the state publishes it. Where a block has its own page, the name links to it. The river miles are how far this river's drawn axis runs inside each block, measured here; the acreage is the whole unit's, most of which is nowhere near this water. "Restricted access" and "access unrecorded" are PAD-US's own words for the block, and neither one means open — check before you park.
More about Cove Creek
Cove Creek — live water temperature, regulations and access
- Is Cove Creek good for brown trout?
- Is Cove Creek good for rainbow trout?
- When to fish Cove Creek, North Carolina
- Cove Creek fishing report
- Cove Creek fishing regulations