Motorcycle Ride Planner · United States

NC 90 — Linville to Lenoir

United States · measured from OpenStreetMap geometry

NC 90 runs 25 miles between Linville and Lenoir. We counted 1,043 corners along it, which works out at 41.7 a mile — consistently twisty. It runs past mountain peaks, a river, woodland and open water. 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 90 and Edgemont Road it makes about 24 more miles of the same kind of road.

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Worth stopping for

• 0.9 miwaterfallThorps Creek Falls
• 1.3 miwaterfallHarper Creek Falls
• 1.6 miwaterfallGragg Prong Falls
• 1.7 miwaterfallBard Falls
• 1.7 miwaterfallDestiny Falls
• 1.8 miwaterfallHuntfish Falls
• 1.8 miwaterfallHuntfish Sidekick Falls
• 1.8 miwaterfallMiddle Gragg Prong Falls
• 2.0 miwaterfallUpper Gragg Prong Falls
• 2.3 miattractionHouse Of Mugs (Collettsville Cup House)

Roads near here

• NC 901 mi away · 576 corners
• Edgemont Road1 mi away · 630 corners
• Edgemont Road1 mi away · 341 corners
• Maple Sally Road5 mi away · 592 corners
• NC 1816 mi away · 270 corners
• NC 1817 mi away · 496 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.