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7 - 6 <br />Orange County Comprehensive Parks and Recreation Master Plan <br /> CHAPTER 7 - Linkages with 2030 Comprehensive Plan and Other County Plans 7 <br />NC Mountains-to-Sea Trail (planned) <br />The Mountains-to-Sea Trail will link Clingman's <br />Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park <br />to Jockey's Ridge State Park on the Outer Banks. This <br />priority of the North Carolina State Trails Program <br />has a planned section crossing Orange County begin- <br />ning at the Haw River in the county’s southwest <br />corner. Trail plans involve paralleling Cane Creek <br />through OWASA’s Cane Creek Reservoir property <br />and continuing on a northeasterly direction until it <br />connects with the Occoneechee Mountain State <br />Natural Area near Hillsborough. It will then follow <br />the Eno River through the Town of Hillsborough’s <br />Riverwalk, private conservation lands owned by the <br />Classical American Homes Preservation Trust, and <br />Eno River State Park—totaling approximately 25-28 <br />miles in Orange County. This initiative will rely on <br />willing landowners to provide trail easements <br />through rural and suburban settings as well as state <br />and local government cooperation. <br />There will be opportunities for other public trails <br />and greenways to link to the NC Mountains-to-Sea <br />Trail (MST), including the Chapel Hill and Carrboro <br />greenway systems, and the Town of Hillsborough’s <br />planned Cates Creek Greenway. A map showing the <br />planned MST segment through Orange County and <br />the aforementioned potential linkages is provided as <br />Map 7-2. <br />Map 7-2: NC Mountains-to-Sea Trail Corridor Orange County Section <br />84