Motorcycle Adventures in the Southern Appalachians: Asheville NC, The Blue Ridge Parkway, NC High Country

Nothing could be finer than riding in the North Carolina mountains—and southwest Virginia, and East Tennessee. Hawk Hagebak's second motorcycle adventure guide takes you along winding backroads in the NC High Country, through the world's shortest tunnel at Tennessee's Backbone Rock, and from the cosmopolitan streets of Asheville to the mile-high wonders of the Blue Ridge Parkway. This guide includes 26 rides in all, ranging from 16 to 144 miles in length.

Sample the culinary delights of the region, visit motorcycle-only resorts, and take advantage of this book's complete directions, easy to read maps, road conditions, motorcycle laws for the Southeastern states, and more, all liberally sprinkled with the author's special brand of humor and practical advice.

Table of Contents

Introduction | Code of the Road | Summary of State Motorcycle Laws | Tips for the Road

THE ASHEVILLE AREA
Exploring Asheville | City Escape | Lake Lure Run | Hot Springs | Trust & Luck | Climbing Mount Mitchell | Buncombe Turnpike | Hail Caesar | Mount Pisgah Loop

THE FAR WEST
Tourist Tour | Top of the Parkway | Smokin' Dragon | Cullasaja Gorge Run | Cradle Loop | Franklin Loop

THE HIGH COUNTRY
Little Switzerland Loop | Burnsville Loop | Murder Mountain | Boone & Banner Elk | Grandfather Loop | Blowing Rock | Watauga Loop | Fresco Tour | Stations Loop | The Backbone | Mount Rogers Scenic Byway

APPENDIX
Places to Stay, Play, Eat, and Shop

About the Author

Haakon "Hawk" Hagebak is a Cobb county, GA motorcycle police sergeant and former Coast Guard navigator who has logged motorcycle tours in 48 states. His Motorcycle Adventure gudiebook series covers more than 5,000 miles of the best motorcycling in the eastern U.S. He lives in Cobb county with his wife and daughters.