To get to Hanging Rock Access from Danbury, turn left off Highway 89 onto Flinchum Road (unpaved) about a mile west of Stokes Reynolds Memorial Hospital. Follow Flinchum Road to a concrete ramp, just downstream from Indian Creek. Indian Creek, which, like Cascade Creek, rises in Hanging Rock State Park near the Family Camping area. Hidden Falls and Window Falls, two excellent short hikes, are located on Indian Creek and Indian Creek Trail. The river below the next bridge crossing, Buck Island Bridge, after meandering easterly for 0.5 miles, southerly for a mile and east another mile, is joined from the left by Seven Island Creek and passes under where the Seven Island steel truss bridge stood until 2005. The bridge was first built above US Highway 311 crossing of the Dan River in 1899 and was rebuilt here in 1927. The Dan next meanders 0.5 miles southerly and 0.5 miles easterly before its one-mile southerly reach ending at the horseshoe curve that cradles Moratock Park in Danbury. This section seems long, but is quietly remote and very beautiful. The nearby hiking, camping, and rock climbing aren't the only reasons Danbury is a popular destination for outdoor enthusiasts. The Dan River flows right through town, offering a variety of canoe, kayak, or inner-tube adventures. For low-key family fun, The Danbury General Store has tubes for rent and will even shuttle you upstream in an old school bus, all for $7.00 (life vest included). The Hanging Rock Outdoor Center and The Dan River Company outfit canoe and kayak trips. The Outdoor Center also offers a leisurely 10-mile flat-water float that takes out at the historic Moratock Iron Furnace. Built by Nathaniel Moody in 1843, this "bloomery" forge once supplied iron to the Confederacy. The towering stone structure, one of the best preserved furnaces of its type in the Southeast, is surrounded by a scenic riverside park, home to the annual Stokes Stomp - Festival On The Dan sponsored by the Stokes County Arts Council. Eleven individual properties in the Danbury Historic District are listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The Wilson Fulton home, built in 1860, is being restored as a home for the Stokes County Historical Society Museum. The original Stokes County Courthouse, built in 1904, stands on a knoll not far from the Dan River. Behind is an even older, much smaller structure, the Ralph J. Scott Memorial Town Hall. Scott, a U.S. Congressman from 1957-67, kept his law office in the 1888-vintage building and later donated it to Danbury. Today the small white frame building with its Victorian gingerbread brackets provides space for the Town Clerk -- complete with a Rose of Sharon blooming in the yard. Historically, the bridge crossing the Dan River into Danbury crossed at Moratock Park. The next challenge is to pass unscathed under the Sheppard Mill Road Bridge, built in 1958. As soon as one has dodged the swimmers at Moratock Park, one must negotiate a shallow rock garden, no doubt the site of an old ford. The river is still rounding the horseshoe curve. On river right is an old quarry, a reminder of the importance of minerals in the history of the county. Mill Creek, which rises on the eastern slopes of the Sauratown Mountains within the boundaries of Hanging Rock State Park, flows into the Dan at Danbury, on the horseshoe bend which sweeps around the park. The first major tributary below Mill Creek also comes in river right. It is Flat Shoals Creek, which rises on the eastern flank of the easternmost of the Sauratowns near the community of Flat Shoals, flows northeasterly and joins the Dan River about a mile below Moratock Park. The river bends sharply left here over a shoal; then, on the final straight run to the Moratock Park Access on river left.