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North Carolina Highway 12 (NC 12) is a 148.0-mile-long (238.2 km) primary state highway in the U.S. state of North Carolina, linking the peninsulas and islands of the northern Outer Banks. Most sections of NC 12 are two lanes wide, and there are also two North Carolina Ferry System routes which maintain continuity of the route as it traverses ...
The first NC 66 was an original state highway. It began at NC 60 and NC 65 the current intersection of 4th Street and Cherry Street in Winston-Salem. NC 66 then headed north along today's University Parkway to Stanleyville. From there, NC 66 continues up to Pilot Mountain. In late 1921, NC 66 was extended to NC 89, in Westfield.
When originally established in the 1920s, the state highway system was highly organized: two-digit routes ending in "0" were major cross-state routes, other two digit routes were numbered as spurs off of the main route (that is, Highway 54 would have been a spur off of Highway 50) and lesser important routes were given three digit numbers by appending an extra "ones" digit to the two digit ...
The Mother Road. America’s Highway. The Main Street of America. The Will Rogers Highway. Route 66 goes by many names, but no matter how travelers refer to it, there’s one constant everyone can ...
As road closures are expected to last for months, the Tennessee Department of Transportation is warning people to avoid roads between East Tennessee and Western North Carolina.
The North Carolina Scenic Byways consists of roads in the state of North Carolina that travel through areas of scenic, historic, and cultural significance. Launched in March 1990, the scenic byway program has presently 59 designated byways, including three national scenic byways and one all American road, a total of 2,300 miles (3,700 km).
Route 66 travelers will encounter detours this summer with reconstruction set to start on the Turner Turnpike bridge over the iconic highway in Wellston.. Work is set to start later this month on ...
12.6 20.3 1988 — Alternate route through downtown Calypso, Mount Olive and Brogden. US 117A: Goldsboro: 2.8 4.5 1952 1960 Provided an alternate route through downtown Goldsboro. Replaced by US 117 Business. US 117 ALT: Goldsboro: Wilson: 23.4 37.7 2006 2009 Alternate route that traversed from Goldsboro, through Pikeville and Fremont, to Wilson.