Epic Travel → North America → The South → North Carolina → Tuckasegee → Judaculla Rock

Location: North of Tuckasegee, North Carolina

Time Required: 15 minutes

Red Tape/Notes: The rock is accessed via a short walkway from a gravel parking lot.

What’s Nearby?: Cedar Cliff Lake

This is a fascinating stop if you like mysteries. And historic stuff. Judaculla Rock is a large soapstone boulder, covered in strange markings that no one has been able to decipher (it actually contains the most petroglyphs of any rock east of the Mississippi). Historians estimate that the carvings are 1,000 to 3,000 years old and pre-date the Cherokee, who have their own legends about the origins of the rock and consider the site to be sacred.

Epic Travel → North America → The South → North Carolina → Tuckasegee → Judaculla Rock