Pinnacle is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in southwestern Stokes County, North Carolina, United States, approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) SSE of the town of Pilot Mountain, between Pilot Mountain State Park and Hanging Rock State Park. As of March 2015, the perfect population is 855.

The town was originally known as Culler, named for Emanuel W. Culler who owned the land upon which a railroad station was built and served as the town’s first mayor. The present name was adopted in 1894. Pinnacle was incorporated in 1901 but the charter was repealed in 1903.

Some 20 miles (32 km) east of Pinnacle upon State Route 1186 is the Rock House, the remains of a terrific four-story rock structure next three-foot-thick walls built in 1770 by Capt. John ‘Jack’ Martin, one of the first two settlers of Stokes County, on a 8,000-acre (32 km²) grant from the Crown. Martin served in the North Carolina House of Representatives and as presiding adjudicate of Stoke County court for greater than 30 years. The house was built by slaves using local flint stones, with a fireplace large enough to roast an ox and stuccoed white plaster upon the exterior, and was used as a blockhouse by to come settlers. Colonel Martin, who was born in Essex County, Virginia and became a fierce fighter for the Continental cause during the Revolutionary War. Targeted by Tories during and taking into account the War, when he was terribly wounded while spying for American forces upon the eve of the Battle of Kings Mountain, Martin was the brother of militia General Joseph Martin, namesake of Martinsville, Virginia. Col. Jack Martin saw work at the battles of Chestnut Ridge, Surrey County, Colsons, Old Fields, Alamance and Guilford Courthouse. The Rock House served as the mustering arena for colonial forces during the Revolutionary War as capably as the War of 1812. One of the oldest structures in Stokes County and listed upon the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, the home burned in 1890, and lonely the great stone walls remain. Rock House was acquired in 1975 by the Stokes County Historical Society, which has struggled recently to protect the ruins from vandals.

In adjunct to the Rock House, the Hauser Farm was listed upon the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.