We drove through Stone Mountain State Park using both paved and good gravel roads to start the day. The park is gorgeous and the roads mostly follow what starts out as a little creek but which gets additional flow from maybe 10 tributary creeks and ends up as a pretty good river by the time we ran out of road.
Once we ran out of park, we got on back roads to the town of Elkin about 20 miles or 30 minutes away. Elkin is a beautiful little town with a great assortment of spectacular old houses. We blocked many citizens engaged in their lawful business while we were gawking at these magnificent old structures.
We took a few house pictures and you can see them if you click here