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Map of the Dismal Swamp Canal, drawn by civil engineer D. S. Walton, 1867 Deep Creek Lock, located in Deep Creek, Virginia, separates the salt water of Deep Creek from the fresh water of Dismal Swamp Canal. In the Colonial period, water transportation was the lifeblood of the North Carolina sounds region and the Tidewater areas of Virginia. The ...
Dismal Swamp State Park is a North Carolina state park in Camden County, North Carolina, in the United States. The park was created as a state natural area in 1974 with the help of The Nature Conservancy , and on July 28, 2007, the North Carolina General Assembly re-designated it as a state park. [ 4 ]
Bald cypress in Lake Drummond, Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia Map of the Great Dismal Swamp. Lake Drummond, a 3,100-acre (13 km 2) natural lake, is located in the heart of the swamp.
Washington Ditch in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in 2016. The Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was created in 1974 to help protect and preserve a portion of the Great Dismal Swamp, a marshy region on the Coastal Plain of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina between Norfolk, Virginia, and Elizabeth City, North Carolina in the United States.
The following trails give access to the area: [2] [4] [3] The Appalachian Trail crosses into the area at Sugar Run Mountain on the northeast, then descends and follows Dismal Creek to the point where the trail crosses Va 606 on the southeast. The AT is crossed by Sugar Run Road, Va 663, near the entry into the area on the north.
Leaving it to run alongside Dismal Swamp, it crosses the Appalachian Trail not long afterwards, then continues north towards the Lake Cohasset Shelter where camping is permitted. It then runs along the crest of Stockbridge Mountain, passing the Stockbridge and Stockbridge Cave Shelters, and afterwards works its way down to US 6 by way of a fire ...
It is managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service as a satellite of Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. In 1973 about 207 acres (0.84 km 2) of salt marsh were transferred to the Service by the United States Navy to form the refuge. An additional 204 acres (0.83 km 2) were transferred in 1999. The refuge is not open to the ...
The Dismal Swamp is a wetland ecosystem located in an urban environment. The swamp covers nearly 650 acres (3 km 2) with 12 acres (0 km 2) located in Metuchen with the remaining portion in Edison and South Plainfield. The swamp contains a number of wildlife species, including the endangered loggerhead shrike.