Turkey Cove & Cathey’s Fort

Stopovers for Two Campaigns

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Coordinates: 35.7933, -82.0212.

Type: Stop
Tour: Overmountain
County: McDowell

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Park off Good Road to the right just before the tree line. It marks a branch feeding into the North Fork of the Catawba River, to the left of the road.

As of May 2026, this tour stop was a construction zone, due to Hurricane Helene damage from two years earlier. (The north half of the abandoned train trestle described on this page was destroyed.) If that remains true when you visit, you can find parking beyond the work zone on the shoulder of the road, and then walk back.

Mug saying "More than a minute-man," with a drawing of a Continental officer