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 19.4 a mile.
Ridden together with NC 281 and NC 281 it makes about 18 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
- NC 2811 mi away · 654 corners
- NC 2815 mi away · 344 corners
- Copperhead Loop / NC-215 Mountain Pass6 mi away · 210 corners
- East Fork Road6 mi away · 492 corners
- Charleys Creek Road7 mi away · 346 corners
- US 1789 mi away · 216 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.