North Carolina

America's Byways®

Blue Ridge Parkway

The Parkway provides spectacular mountain and valley vistas, quiet pastoral scenes, sparkling waterfalls and colorful flower and foliage displays as it extends through the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and North Carolina.

Cherohala Skyway

The Skyway offers the cultural heritage of the Cherokee tribe and early settlers in a grand forest environment in the Appalachian Mountains. Enjoy mile-high vistas and brilliant fall foliage, as well as great hiking opportunities and picnic spots in magnificent and seldom seen portions of the southern Appalachian National Forests.

Other Byways in North Carolina

As a service, we strive to include information on all byways or backways in North Carolina on this website. This list may be incomplete or contain byways that overlap.

• Alligator River Route
• Appalachian Medley
• Birkhead Wilderness Route
• Black Mountain Rag
• Blue-Gray Scenic Byway
• Brunswick Town Road
• Cape Fear Historic Byway
• Colonial Heritage Byway
• Crowders Mountain Drive
• Devil's Stompin' Ground Road
• Drovers Road
• Edenton-Windsor Loop
• Flint Hill Ramble
• Football Road
• Forest Heritage Scenic Byway
• French Broad Overview
• Grassy Island Crossing
• Green Swamp Byway
• Hanging Rock Scenic Byway
• Indian Heritage Trail
• Indian Lakes Scenic Byway
• Lafayette's Tour
• Little Parkway
• Meteor Lakes Byway
• Millbridge Scenic Byway
• Mission Crossing
• Mountain Waters Scenic Byway
• Nantahala Byway
• New River Valley Byway
• North Durham Country Byway
• Outer Banks Scenic Byway
• Pacolet River Byway
• Pamlico Scenic Byway
• Pee Dee Valley Drive
• Perquiman's Crossing
• Pottery Road
• Roanoke Voyages Corridor
• Rolling Kansas Byway
• Sandhills Scenic Drive
• South Mountain Scenery
• Tar Heel Trace
• Upper Yadkin Way
• Uwharrie Scenic Road
• Waterfall Byway
• Whitewater Way

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