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Castle Rock

Castle Rock - Towns

Several towns in the United States are named "Castle Rock":

• Castle Rock, Colorado
• Castle Rock, Washington
• Castle Rock, Wisconsin
• Castle Rock Township, Minnesota

There is also Castle Rock, Maine, a fictional town used by Stephen King as the setting for a number of his works.

Castle Rock - Mountains

Castle Rock is also the name of several mountains and rock outcroppings:

• Castle Rock State Park, in the Santa Cruz Mountains, used by residents of the San Francisco Bay Area for rock climbing practice.
• Castle Rock State Park, in the Rock River valley.
• Castle Rock, a tourist attraction with steps for climbing about 5 miles north of St. Ignace, Michigan.
• Castle Rock, near Leavenworth, Washington, a popular climbing destination, first climbed in 1957 by Fred Beckey, Dave Collins, and Don Gordon.
• Castle Rock, an Oriskany sandstone outcrop near Forks of Cacapon in Hampshire County, West Virginia.
• Castle Rock, near McMurdo Station in Antarctica.
• Castle Rock, Western Australia in the Porongurup Range.
• Castle Rock, Kansas near the town of Quinter in north western Kansas.

Castle Rock - Islands

• Castle Rock is the name of an island in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.

Castle Rock - Misc.

The name Castle Rock has also had various other uses:

• Castle Rock Entertainment, a film production company founded by Rob Reiner and named after King's fictional town.
• Castle Rock Winery, a winery in California.
• Castle Rock, a monthly newsletter about Stephen King published from January 1985 through December 1989. It was edited by Christopher Spruce, King's brother in law.
• Castle Rock (螺洲白排) is an island of Hong Kong, part of the Po Toi group.
• Castle Rock is the hill on which Edinburgh Castle is built on in Scotland.
• Castle Rock is a fictional mountain fort in the William Golding novel Lord of the Flies.
• Castell Rock(Welsh for Castle Rock) is a Welsh festival.

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