Domesticated Azalea
This section of Mayo River State Park is accessed via a nondescript dirt road off of Rt 220 north of Mayodan. There was room for two or maybe three cars in the tall grass. We pulled up and started walking in on a gated road, completely overgrown. It was not long before we passed an old homesite with these wonderful Azaleas. It looked like the property had been inhabited by some counterculture folks. There was an old bus with a screened in porch. Also a picnic style shelter with a brick grill which looked like it had been used once.
The road led to the Mayo which we followed for a while before climbing up the calcareous cliffs.
Cliff Stonecrop
We walked a big loop, along the river and then high above the river to get back. We also crossed a tributary of the Mayo to walk along an old sluice and saw the remnants of an old mill. The mill stone was about a 1/4 mile down stream.
The old pumphouse which got its water from a nearby stream, supplied the building below, in much disrepair today.
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