Scenic Drives/Rides

Choose a mountain stretch with ridge-top overlooks, wooded curves and places to stop for a picnic.

Travel through Great Smoky Mountains National Park toward Newfound Gap and the Tennessee side.

Head into the high country between the Robbinsville area and Tellico Plains, Tennessee.

Explore the Pisgah Forest countryside, with waterfalls, forest scenery and the story of forestry in the mountains.

Plan a coastal journey through barrier-island villages and the Down East communities.

Take a short drive through the Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach area beneath mature trees and beside the Intracoastal Waterway.

Follow a coastal-plain route through the Lake Mattamuskeet area, Fairfield and Columbia toward Manns Harbor.

Explore western North Carolina's wooded coves and agricultural valleys on a route linked with Appalachian music and mountain life.

This short route north of Fayetteville passes farmland and Civil War history in Cumberland and Harnett counties.

Follow an Ashe County countryside route from Warrensville through Lansing toward the Virginia line.

This mountain route takes its name from a fiddle tune and winds through the NC 9 corridor toward Bat Cave and the surrounding gorge country.

Travel through eastern North Carolina farmland and the Neuse River basin, with small communities and Civil War history along the way.