Elkin is a town in Surry and Wilkes counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina, along the Yadkin River.

Its downtown is also situated along the Yadkin River, and offers a paddlers boat ramp and small camp site.

Elkin is centrally located in the Yadkin Valley Wine Region (a certified American Viticulture Area).

Elkin was the easternmost encampment along the Overmountain Victory Trail and there is a marker at the park near the recreation center along Hwy 268.

Elkin High has also produced numerous fencing, soccer, volleyball, tennis, swimming, and wrestling state championships.

Exit 85 provides the midpoint entrance into Elkin via Hwy 268, or CC Camp Road.

At this point, you'll be entering the historic downtown district at Elkin's southern border where you'll find a bustling pedestrian friendly Main Street, with restaurants, antiques, a winery/tasting room, shops, Civil War Marker, Overmountain Victory Trail, NC Mountain-to-Sea Trail (Main Street), and a future visitor center.

Old Business Hwy 21 is also called Bridge Street, and intersects the entire town of Elkin from the Yadkin River up to where it joins with US 21 heading north towards State Road, then to Sparta.

The Winston-Salem Journal and Mount Airy News, larger daily newspapers, also cover Surry County.