Haw River State Park – Iron Ore Belt Access
![Trees at the tail end of the fall, with most of their leaves gone, at the Iron Ore Belt access of Haw River State Park](https://files.nc.gov/parks/styles/event_image/public/images/2022-08/haw-river-iron-ore-belt-catalog.jpg?VersionId=V_UMGTvX2a34B87o93HJjyo5fmiVsQHQ&itok=yAYZOAB3)
Location: Guilford County, 12 miles north of downtown Greensboro
At the park, you can find: floodplain swamp, great blue heron, and rusty red iron ore
Highlights at this access: hiking through wetlands, old farm field, surface-level iron ore deposits, and remnants of an iron ore mining pit; picnic areas