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Calloway Gap Road / Lump Road Blue Ridge Parkway: 982435: Cannon Gap: Blue Ridge Mountains: Avery: 3,917 feet (1,194 m) Beech Mountain Road 1010022: Cherry Gap: Blue Ridge Mountains: Avery: 4,147 feet (1,264 m)
Location of Quaker Gap Township in Stokes County, N.C. Quaker Gap Township is one of nine townships in Stokes County, North Carolina, United States. Geographically, Quaker Gap Township occupies 44.91 square miles (116.3 km 2) in western Stokes County. The township's western border is with Surry County. There are no incorporated municipalities ...
NC 80 at Buck Creek Gap. NC 80 is a 37.9-mile-long (61.0 km) two-lane mountain highway between US 70, in Pleasant Gardens, and NC 226A, near Bakersville.The highway is popular with bike and motorcycle enthusiasts, because of its hairpin turns and also makes up part of the Mount Mitchell Scenic Drive between the Blue Ridge Parkway and Micaville.
Fire Scale Mountain is a mountain in the North Carolina High Country, near the community of Deep Gap.The majority of the mountain is within the Blue Ridge Parkway.Its elevation reaches 3,845 feet (1,172 m).
John Gold Memorial Freeway – Official North Carolina name of US 52 within the borders of Forsyth County. [19] Pilot Mountain Parkway – Official North Carolina name of US 52, it originally went from King to the Virginia state line. In 2002, it was shortened to the I-74 interchange south of Mount Airy, for the Andy Griffith Parkway. [19]
Buck Creek Gap (el. 3,402 ft (1,037 m)) is a mountain pass along the Blue Ridge Mountains. NC 80 connects with the Blue Ridge Parkway at the gap, where it travelers can go either towards Burnsville, Marion, Mount Mitchell or Little Switzerland. A scenic overlook is located at the gap, along NC 80; which is sometimes also used as a staging area ...
The bridge is dedicated to the memory of Peter Guice, who built the first toll bridge over the Green River in 1820; it replaced a hazardous ford along Howard Gap Road. An unrecorded flood washed out the toll bridge, but was replaced by his son; the second toll bridge was destroyed by flood in 1916.
About 4 miles (6.4 km) from its terminus, it intersects NC 210. It then starts to bend towards the north forming the border of the Sneads Ferry census-designated place. The Lakeside Drive/Old Ferry Road intersection is the last intersection that is accessible by the public along the southern segment of NC 172.