Motorcycle Ride Planner · United States

Little River Gorge Road — Townsend to Wears Valley

United States · measured from OpenStreetMap geometry

Little River Gorge Road runs 12 miles between Townsend and Wears Valley. We counted 601 corners along it, which works out at 50.1 a mile — corner after corner with no let-up. It runs past mountain peaks, a ridge line, a waterfall and a river. 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 Little River Gorge Road and US 321 it makes about 18 more miles of the same kind of road.

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Worth stopping for

• 0.7 miwaterfallMeadow Branch Cascade
• 0.9 miwaterfallMannis Branch Falls
• 1.1 miwaterfallLaurel Falls
• 1.2 miwaterfallCane Creek Twin Falls
• 1.8 miviewpointMaloney Point
• 1.8 miwaterfallMeigs Falls
• 2.0 miattractionRiver Rat Tubing Outpost
• 2.3 miwaterfallSpruce Flats Falls
• 2.6 miwaterfallMeigs Creek Cascade
• 2.6 miattractionNext to Heaven Adventure

Roads near here

• Little River Gorge Road0 mi away · 343 corners
• US 3212 mi away · 341 corners
• Foothills Parkway5 mi away · 503 corners
• Cades Cove Loop Road6 mi away · 282 corners
• US 3217 mi away · 534 corners
• US 3217 mi away · 192 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.