McCorkle Lake, Blue Ridge Mountains, Burke County, North Carolina     User input for McCorkle Lake, Blue Ridge Mountains, Burke County, North Carolina: Be the first to submit input for McCorkle Lake. Help improve this web site with your great input. Submit Input: Your Name: Write or Paste Input here: Upload picture:      Review Guidelines       If you are traveling by, why not stop by McCorkle Lake. And if you're still looking for more outdoors enjoyable things just keep reading. A good nearby hotel is Quality Inn Morganton; if you need a place to stay Sleep Inn Morganton is a perfect choice. There's so much to do here at McCorkle Lake that you need to camp here for a while, Pine Mountain Campground is a wonderful site for that, and a quick tour to Cub Creek is definitely a nice idea. McCorkle Lake       typically gets a great deal of rainfall; during the month of May you get the most rain around here, and January is the month with the least moisture. You'll really wish for more hours in a day to enjoy all the entertaining things in the Blue Ridge Mountains. You can run the rapids of First Broad in the vicinity of McCorkle Lake, and the top of Hildebran Mountain is easily seen from McCorkle Lake. The Blue Ridge Mountains scenery is always beautiful. If you                  go for the outdoors you'll go for it here in the Blue Ridge Mountains. McCorkle Dam has splendid water scenery and it's near McCorkle Lake; since you're here you will meet lots of folks from close by Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir. This lake is so wonderful. You'll need more than a day to look at everything McCorkle Lake has to offer, you can camp at Caretakers Cottage, and there's whitewater on Johns River for all you adrenaline kick people. The warmest time of the year at McCorkle Lake comes with high temperatures in the 80's; the nighttime is quite chillier of course, regularly in the 60's. Through the wintertime the highs are frequently in the 50's with winter lows in the 20's overnight here at McCorkle Lake.   Sleep Inn Morganton, Morganton 9 miles away FREE wireless high-speed Internet access in all rooms. 7 year Gold Award Winner. Located two minutes from Western Piedmont Community College, Broughton & Grace Hospitals, Carolina State school/deaf, W... Quality Inn Morganton, Morganton 9 miles away Located at the Gateway to the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains, the Quality Inn all the amenities both business and leisure travelers need. Our location is convenient to I-40 and withing walking ... Current weather conditions at McCorkle Lake, Blue Ridge Mountains, Burke County, North Carolina Local climate location: MORGANTON 15 miles away   Coordinates: Latitude: 35.68833 Longitude: -81.525 Blue Ridge Mountains Lakes Complete list of all the lakes in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Blue Ridge Mountains Outdoors Info Complete outdoors info for the Blue Ridge Mountains. North Carolina Lakes Complete list of all lakes in North Carolina Burke County Lakes Complete list of all lakes in Burke County Books about McCorkle Lake List of books available on Amazon.com about McCorkle Lake, Blue Ridge Mountains, Burke County, North Carolina. Outdoors Recreation Near Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, North Carolina Very comprehensive list of a variety of outdoors recreation in the vicinity of Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, North Carolina, the metro area neareast to McCorkle Lake. Find info on campgrounds, hiking trails, ski resorts, lakes, beaches, parks, whitewater and more. North Carolina Outdoors Index This is a very comprehensive index of outdoors activities in the great state of North Carolina.     These outdoors activities are available near McCorkle Lake.   Hotels Near McCorkle Lake: Sleep Inn Morganton, Morganton, 9 miles away Quality Inn Morganton, Morganton, 9 miles away Quality Inn & Suites, Hickory, 11 miles away Crowne Plaza Hotel HICKORY-I-40, Hickory, 12 miles away Days Inn And Suites, Morganton, 12 miles away   Camp Grounds Near McCorkle Lake: Caretakers Cottage, Connellys Spgs, 6 miles away Pine Mountain Campground, Caldwell County, 10 miles away Green Mountain Park Resort, Lenoir, 15 miles away Playmore Beach Campground, Lenoir, 17 miles away   Ski Areas Near McCorkle Lake: Appalachian Mountain, North Carolina, 28 miles away       365 vertical feet   Whitewater Near McCorkle Lake: Johns River, Burke/Caldwell CountyCounty, 16 miles away       Class I-II - 6.5 miles long (Route 1328 to Route 1438) First Broad, Cleveland/ Rutherford CountyCounty, 18 miles away       Class I-III - 15 miles long (Route 1726 Bridge to Route 1529 Bridge) Wilson Creek, Caldwell CountyCounty, 18 miles away       Class I-II(III) - 4 miles long (Below Brown Mountain Beach to Johns River)