North Carolina State Parks has bought a 3,005-acre tract in Robeson County near Fair Bluff and will add it to Lumber River State Park, state officials announced in a press release on Friday, Oct. 30. The land sits on the west bank of the Lumber River, right along the South Carolina line.
With the new land, the park grows to 16,594 acres, per the release. Only South Mountains State Park in Burke County is larger, at nearly 21,000 acres.
The Conservation Fund set up the deal. It bought the land from a private seller with a $4.05 million grant from the North Carolina Land and Water Fund, plus money from private donors…