Scenic byways in North Carolina
Crowders Mountain Drive
North Carolina Scenic Byway 8 mi in North Carolina.
About the Crowders Mountain Drive
The byway winds motorists around the base of Crowders and Kings mountains in Gaston and Cleveland Counties. Formed in 1841, Cleveland County was named for Benjamin Cleveland, a hero at the Battle of Kings Mountain during the Revolutionary War. The valley that separates the Pinnacle from the rest of the Kings Mountain Range is known as Sherrars Gap.
North Carolina Department of Transportation's own description, in its words. North Carolina Byways on ncdot.gov.
Camping along the byway
- Mile 2 · 4.9 mi offKings Mountain State Park · State park · 136 sites · reservable
- Mile 5 · on the roadCrowders Mountain State Park · State park · 22 sites · reservable
Public campgrounds within 5 miles of the road as the crow flies, in order along the byway; each one's page has its facts, season and weather by month.
About this page's facts
The line is the Federal Highway Administration's scenic byways layer (HEPGIS, a snapshot of 2022-06-24, a US government work), cut at the state line and simplified for the map; the length is the line's. The designation is the program's own: the national tiers from FHWA's America's Byways roster, the rest from the layer's designation field. Road conditions, closures and seasonal gates change: check the agency's own page and the state's road conditions before you go.