Description

Few places do as good a job of quickly escorting you from civilization as the Piedmont Land Conservancy’s 189-acre Knight Brown Nature Preserve. Take the Beechwood Bottom Loop Trail from the trailhead and hike clockwise, and you quickly descend to Belews Creek.   Large sections of three trails run along the creek, which has forged a surprisingly deep valley: in just over a tenth of a mile, the terrain rises 80 vertical feet above the creek. A great getaway with 3.3 miles of hiking just north of Greensboro, N.C.