North Carolina is a traveler's dream, from the Great Smoky Mountains to
the Outer Banks' historic lighthouses, wild horses, and charming fishing
villages; from battlegrounds of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars to the
"heart of motorsports"; from rolling wine country and golf courses to
stately plantations and rustic settlements. Whether you travel North
Carolina for its historic treasures or natural beauty, this handy guide
will help you find the Old North State's most spectacular sites and
secret treasures. The book charts weekend adventures and day trips along
back roads and scenic routes, into the state's many mist-shrouded
mountains--the Black, the Blue Ridge, and the Great Smokies--and down to
its ever-changing shores. Sumptuously illustrated, with maps and all
manner of interesting detail, Backroads of North Carolina is a
page-by-page pleasure, as well as a passport to the more off-beat
delights of the Tar Heel State.