About Buffalo Creek Wilderness

Buffalo Creek Wilderness consists of over 2,000 acres of pristine wilderness land in Watauga County, North Carolina just off the Blue Ridge Parkway. There are very few intact, privately-owned tracts of this size remaining in North Carolina. Many areas of Buffalo Creek Wilderness are less than one mile from the Blue Ridge Parkway, only 12 miles from downtown Boone, and 8 miles from the town of Blowing Rock.  

Buffalo Creek Wilderness is similar to the adjacent Blue Ridge Mountain Club in that it has dozens of spectacular building sites with elevations of up to 3,400+ feet which offer long range views to the east (see photo gallery below).

Three headwater mountain stream complexes meander throughout the property with numerous waterfalls and waterfall cascades. Buffalo Creek is home to a native brook trout fishery that a NC Wildlife Resources Aquatic Biologist asserts is the best in the northern mountains of North Carolina, which flows uninterrupted into the Buffalo Creek Gamelands. With its uncharacteristic wide valley and quaint, rustic hunting cabin, Buffalo Creek Wilderness is truly unique.