Hammocks Beach State Park

What was the first state park in North Carolina?

• Mount Mitchell

• Hammocks Beach

• Medoc Mountain

How many state park properties does the state have?

• 100

• 61

• 164

• 32

What are the Division of State Parks striving to do?

• To get more families to the parks, to play and enjoy the outdoors.

• To help educate more people, so that they will want to have a job with the state parks.

• To offer enlightening programs that lead to an understanding and appreciation of our natural resources.

Hammocks Beach State Park is one piece of land.

• True

• False

Hammocks Beach State Park consists of ___________ acres on the mainland.

• 33

• 42

• 50

Name the two islands that are adjacent to Hammocks Beach State Park.

• Bear Island

• Swan Island

• Huggins Island

• Emerald Isle

Bear Island is a desert.

• True

• False

Bear Island has maritime forest. What does that mean?

• It is an ocean coastal wooded habitat found on higher ground than dune areas within range of salt spray.

• It is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

• It is a type of marsh that is found along rivers, coasts and estuaries of which the flooding characteristics are determined by the tidal movement of the adjacent estuary, sea or ocean.

Bear Island is an important nesting site for what threatened animal?

• Green Sea Turtle

• Migratory birds

• Loggerhead Sea Turtles

Hammocks Beach State Park is a place that you can visit with

• A school group

• Your family