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Pilot Mountain has two distinctive features, named Big and Little Pinnacle. Pilot Mountain Big Pinnacle (also called "The Knob") has high and colorful bare rock walls, with a rounded top covered by vegetation, reaching approximately 1,400 feet (430 m) above the surrounding terrain. A paved road takes visitors to the park visitor center and campgrounds, then up to a parking lot on the ridge. Pilot Mountain Trails from there allow access to the main Little Pinnacle Overlook and other viewing stations.
Jomeokee Trail leads around the base of Big Pinnacle. Ledge Spring Trail goes past a large picnic area and down along the ridge crest; its lower loop back up past a small perennial spring follows a long cliff that is a popular location for rock climbing. Pilot Mountain Big Pinnacle is closed to climbing. Other trails include Sassafras trail, and Grindstone Trail which connects the popular campground to Ledge Spring Trail. Mountain Trail follows up the other side of the ridge to also connect to Ledge Spring Trail.
Pilot Mountain is part of Pilot Mountain State Park, which extends by other areas and corridors to the Yadkin River, and is associated with nearby Horne Creek Living Historical Farm. The curved depression between the ridge slope to the Little Pinnacle and then to the round knob of the Big Pinnacle gives the entire mountain an even more distinctive shape from a distance. Other interesting Pilot Mountain rock formations are to the east at privately-held Sauratown Mountain, and the higher complex at Hanging Rock State Park.
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