Pilot Mountain Scenic Overlook

Added: 2026-06-03

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[00:01:09]That was Main Street in Pilot Mountain, North Carolina.

[00:01:16]Today's episode of Adventures with Canippy.

[00:01:23]We are visiting Pilot Mountain, North Carolina. I'm going to Pilot Mountain State Park right now.

[00:01:33]I have to say the ride here from Stewart was amazing.

[00:01:39]I was like mesmerized. The whole ride.

[00:01:43]It was nothing but farms, beautiful houses and fields and just wow. What a lovely ride on the way here.

[00:01:53]I enjoyed every every minute of the whole ride here. It was very scenic and lovely, I would say. There it is. Look at that.

[00:02:11]How cool is that?

[00:02:14]>> 1.3 miles. Turn left.

[00:02:20]>> Pilot Mountain.

[00:02:26]Awesome. That is crazy.

[00:02:36]That is just like unreal. That is unreal. Is the first thing that comes to mind to me is just wow.

[00:02:53]>> At one mile, turn left.

[00:03:09]Is this someone's house or is that a campground? I don't know what this is right here.

[00:03:17]Pilot Mountain State Park.

[00:03:29]At the roundabout, take the second exit, then arrive at your destination.

[00:03:34]>> Take the second exit.

[00:03:39]What is this?

[00:03:45]Where does that go?

[00:03:48]I didn't read the sign or something.

[00:03:51]Camping overlooks, visitor center, and trails.

[00:03:58]I think we'll try to overlooks first, maybe.

[00:04:03]Maybe we'll try to overlooks first.

[00:04:07]What's down there?

[00:04:10]All right, we're going up this hill.

[00:04:16]Should the overlooks two miles to Summit Overlook?

[00:04:34]That must be like the rest area.

[00:04:37]Restrooms and stuff possibly.

[00:04:42]No public restrooms. Okay, maybe not.

[00:04:51]So, I got the van inspected yesterday and then I'm on the phone with my buddy Chris. We were talking for a long time yesterday and uh we're always talking about biblical stuff like always. I mean, we life, the Bible, just everything. and we got on the subject of some of the mountains actually being possibly being tree stumps and he was like, "You know there's one in North Carolina, right?" And I was like, "There is?" He was like, "Yeah, Pilot Mountain, man. Ain't even that far away." And I was like, "Dude, I'm about to drive out there tomorrow.

[00:05:37]I got to see this." this and he was like, "You really going out there tomorrow?" Like 10 fo ready for adventure.

[00:05:50]Wow, this is uh beautiful.

[00:05:54]Nice and cleared out. I guess they take care of this and don't let it get too brushy and keep it beautiful.

[00:06:06]Or maybe it's just naturally like that.

[00:06:16]Big old oak tree laying there. That's some good firewood.

[00:06:22]Oh wow, we climbing.

[00:07:08]Yeah, this is a twomile climb.

[00:07:14]Trees laying everywhere. Why don't they clean them all the way up?

[00:07:19]They need to hire Canippy at Pilot Mountain.

[00:07:48]Wow, that's cool.

[00:09:03]Goodness. Yes.

[00:09:21]Oh yeah, we up here. We way up here.

[00:09:38]Yeah, there's a bunch of rocks up there.

[00:10:15]We made it.

[00:10:18]Grindstone trail climbing access picnic area.

[00:10:35]Find us a parking spot up in here.

[00:10:46]Restroom. Oh my goodness.

[00:10:51]Oh, I needed that. There's like some trails that way and the overlooks out here. Look at all of that.

[00:11:02]Got these things.

[00:11:08]Dang.

[00:11:37]some high flyers.

[00:12:00]Blue Reed.

[00:12:06]We got a bunch of like mountains and peaks.

[00:12:42]cool fences.

[00:12:44]I should be doing this stuff with like little trees and branches laying around the property. Just make little fences everywhere around the property lines and areas that I want to decorate. It's pretty cool.

[00:13:07]visitor information.

[00:13:12]I don't know where to start out here.

[00:13:15]I'm like, let's start with a scenic view. You know, I couldn't believe the Pilot Mountain. That was a crazy view that I wasn't expecting. That was just uh really cool.

[00:13:29]So, here's some more just some more views um overlooks.

[00:13:43]Well, is this actually Pilot Mountain?

[00:13:48]I guess this is Pilot Mountain.

[00:13:52]So, this is the Pilot Mountain overview.

[00:13:55]I thought I was going to be on another mountain looking at the Pilot Mountain, you know, but man, this is so cool.

[00:14:12]Wow, we are high up.

[00:14:18]And yeah, there's Pilot Mountain right there.

[00:14:30]a lot of that fence. That's pretty cool.

[00:14:32]I like that. The way that looks.

[00:14:44]Another over little overlook spot.

[00:14:55]Little pinnacle overlook.

[00:16:31]No, >> I don't think I like it.

[00:16:45]>> Dang.

[00:17:07]How y'all doing?

[00:17:08]>> Good. How are you?

[00:17:08]>> Pretty good.

[00:17:10]>> Oh, wow. Look at these rocks stacked up.

[00:17:15]Those are cool. Big old rocks which uh possibly in my opinion could have been wood a long time ago.

[00:17:27]Look at that.

[00:17:51]That's crazy.

[00:17:55]Wow.

[00:18:03]Oh, look. There's people walking right there. It's like a bunch of steps.

[00:18:09]So they're so the I'm here pretty much pilot mountain.

[00:18:24]That is crazy.

[00:18:27]So the book of Enoch talks about huge ancient trees where like you could see them from all corners of the world. They were so huge.

[00:18:40]And uh I'm guessing or I think you know the Most High pretty much sent angels to cut them down when the when he flooded the earth and wanted to kill you know the giants and all the craziness. He wanted to end the bloodshed I guess it was going on. And uh that kind of explains some of these big old huge flat cut mountains that are sticking up that look just like tree stumps. You know what I mean? And uh believe what you want, but uh that's pretty much my opinion of it. Man, that is too cool.

[00:19:32]I'm wondering if I should uh take these kicks off and put on some better kicks and maybe go explore some of these trails. I just seen I just seen uh people walking up through there. It's like stairs. A lot of stairs.

[00:20:36]It feels so nice and breezy out here.

[00:20:38]I'm actually thinking about putting a hoodie on, too.

[00:20:44]It's actually so breezy. I was getting some chills when I was up there.

[00:20:53]Things to know before you go.

[00:21:00]You are here.

[00:21:16]Changed the shoes.

[00:21:18]Kind of wishing I had put my black ones on cuz he's like right there for some reason. It's like putting pressure on my foot right there. This one's fine. Maybe my right foot's weird.

[00:21:32]Pilot knob trail.8 mile moderate.

[00:21:39]Let's go.

[00:21:41]Timber rattlesnakes.

[00:21:44]A rare occurrence, but they out here.

[00:21:52]>> How was it, brother? It's good.

[00:21:55]>> Cool.

[00:22:01]>> Nice.