The Triangle Land Conservancy will open a new nature preserve Saturday in northern Wake County near Falls Lake.
The 65-acre Old Creedmoor Nature Preserve is covered in mature forest and laced with cycling and hiking trails. It becomes the nonprofit Triangle Land Conservancy’s eighth preserve open to the public.
The property, just north of N.C. 98 between Wake Forest and Durham, had been slated for a housing development. It’s in an area gradually filling with large-lot subdivisions in the watershed of nearby Falls Lake, Wake County’s largest source of drinking water…