Motorcycle Ride Planner · United States
NC 281 — Rosman to Cullowhee
United States · measured from OpenStreetMap geometry
NC 281 runs 22.5 miles between Rosman and Cullowhee. We counted 1,043 corners along it, which works out at 46.3 a mile — corner after corner with no let-up. It runs past mountain peaks, a waterfall, a river and cliffs. That puts it in the busiest tenth of every road we have measured in the United States, where the median is 25.1 a mile.
Ridden together with Copperhead Loop / NC-215 Mountain Pass and Whitewater Falls & Lake Toxaway Pass it makes about 61 more miles of the same kind of road.
Worth stopping for
- 0.6 miwaterfallFlat Creek Falls
- 0.6 miwaterfallGrandmas Kitchen Falls
- 0.9 miwaterfallBonas Defeat Falls
- 1.0 miwaterfallDoe Branch Falls
- 1.1 miwaterfallNellies Falls
- 1.1 miwaterfallSlickens Creek Falls
- 1.2 miwaterfallRobinson Creek Falls
- 1.3 miwaterfallParadise Falls
- 1.3 miwaterfallTiger Rock Falls
- 1.3 miwaterfallVerde Falls
Roads near here
- Copperhead Loop / NC-215 Mountain Pass6 mi away · 210 corners
- Whitewater Falls & Lake Toxaway Pass11 mi away · 175 corners
- US 27614 mi away · 1,014 corners
- Cherokee Foothills & Caesars Head Climb16 mi away · 130 corners
- US 64;NC 2817 mi away · 545 corners
- NC 10622 mi away · 252 corners
How we measured it
Corner counts come from the road's own geometry in OpenStreetMap, not from ratings or votes. Every bend above a threshold of curvature is counted once, so two roads can be compared directly. Nothing here is crowdsourced and nobody paid to appear.