Jordan Lake Educational State Forest is a nine hundred-acre protected area near Apex, North Carolina, beside Jordan Lake, a reservoir of more than forty-six thousand seven hundred sixty-eight acres. As part of North Carolina’s state forest system, it serves as an educational state forest while also preserving a significant natural landscape. Its location on the lake’s edge ties it closely to one of the region’s largest bodies of water, giving it importance both as a safeguarded forest and as part of the broader recreational and natural setting around Jordan Lake.