The Roanoke River is a river in southern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina in the United States, 410 miles long. A major river of the southeastern United States, it drains a largely rural area of the coastal plain from the eastern edge of the Appalachian Mountains southeast across the Piedmont to Albemarle Sound

John H. Kerr Reservoir, also known as Bugg's Island Lake The 900 miles of wooded shoreline stretch across three counties in Virginia and three in North Carolina

Jordan Reservoir is located primarily in Chatham County; Falls of Neuse Reservoir in Wake, Durham and Granville counties