Motorcycle Ride Planner · United States

US 64;NC 28 — Highlands to Franklin

United States · measured from OpenStreetMap geometry

US 64;NC 28 runs 12 miles between Highlands and Franklin. We counted 545 corners along it, which works out at 45.4 a mile — corner after corner with no let-up. It runs past mountain peaks, a waterfall, cliffs and a river. 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 NC 106 and Whitewater Falls & Lake Toxaway Pass it makes about 35 more miles of the same kind of road.

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Worth stopping for

• 0.6 miwaterfallShort Creek Falls
• 0.8 miwaterfallNaiad Falls
• 0.9 miwaterfallQuarry Falls
• 1.2 miwaterfallPinkerton Pool Falls
• 1.3 miwaterfallScandin Falls
• 1.3 miwaterfallShut In Falls
• 1.4 miwaterfallLaurel Falls
• 1.5 miwaterfallKalakaleskies Falls
• 1.5 miwaterfallSequoah Falls
• 1.7 miwaterfallSatulah Falls

Roads near here

• NC 1065 mi away · 252 corners
• Whitewater Falls & Lake Toxaway Pass11 mi away · 175 corners
• Whetstone & Chattooga River Dual-Sport Trail13 mi away · 90 corners
• Wayah Road / Nantahala Gorge Bypass14 mi away · 180 corners
• Warwoman Road17 mi away · 95 corners
• NC 28117 mi away · 1,043 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.