Friends of Morrow Mountain State Park

Around 15 volunteers from Friends of Morrow Mountain State Park took down the south side stone entrance wall at Morrow Mountain this Saturday morning. Board Chair, Vanessa Mullinix, organized a great group of energetic workers for the initial start of the project. Robert Flake's tractor with its front end loader was a huge help. The argillite stones, including a great deal of stone rubble from the middle of the old wall, were removed and stacked in several piles to be used later. The wall restoration project, that attempts to replicate as much as possible the old CCC dry stacked wall, will follow the basic stages of the north side entrance wall completed last summer by Friends of MMSP.

Friends of Morrow Mountain State Park Volunteers - 6/20/2015 - photo: John D. Young

With a generous grant of $3,000 from Friends of State Park, and a greatly needed additional $2,000 grant from FSP that may be approved in July, the project is underway. Local contributions for the project, that will cost around $19,000 are steadily coming in. Both more volunteers and more monetary contributions will definitely be needed over the next few months. Again some in-kind contributions from a few local contractors will help defray that $19,000 figure.

Tax deductible contributions for this next stage in the restoration of MMSP entrance wall can be mailed to:

Friends of Morrow Mt. State Park
P.O. Box 306
Badin, NC, 28009

You'll find a few pictures in our photo album