Castle Rock
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Towns
Several towns in the United States are named "Castle Rock":
- Castle Rock, Colorado
- Castle Rock, Washington
- Castle Rock, Wisconsin
- Castle Rock Township, Minnesota
- Castle Rock, South Dakota (north of Newell in Butte County)
There is also Castle Rock, Maine, a fictional town used by Stephen King as the setting for a number of his works.
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Mountains
Castle Rock is also the name of several mountains and rock outcroppings:
- Castle Rock, Edinburgh, Scotland, the original after which the others were named by Scottish emigrants
- 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 (South Shetland Islands)
- Castle Rock (Antarctica), near McMurdo Station
- Castle Rock, Western Australia in the Porongurup Range
- Castle Rock, Kansas near the town of Quinter in north western Kansas
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Islands
- Castle Rock is the name of an island in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
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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.