Highway 276 at Caesars Head State Park

[Tim RabideauKeymaster]

Location:
Located at highway 276, traveling from Travelers Rest South Carolina to Brevard North Carolina. However, the scenic portion is the area immediately near Ceasars Head State Park. The fun part is approximately 15 miles long.

Description:
Very Curvey. Paved blacktop the entire stretch. Lots of switchback turns and fun banked corners. A-lot of elevation gain and loss. If you are traveling North, the first stretch towards Ceasars Head is all uphill, and when you reach the top of the mountain, the back side toward Brevard is all downhill. This provides an excellent opportunity to really stress your engine and brake mods!

On our last trip, we had the turbo glowing almost white hot on the way up, and we had the brakes smoking on the way down.

There are occasionally road bikers on this road so please be careful and give them space.

Scenery:
The route is very green in the summer, with scenic color changes in the fall. The top of the route at Ceasars Head has a nice view of the Appalachian mountains at ~1000-2000 ft of elevation. I miss the cool and clean air.

After you come down from Ceasars Head (if you’re traveling north), you can turn onto Staton Road towards Dupont State forest. This is a very lightly traveled road that after only a few miles will take you to some incredible waterfalls. Tripple falls, hooker Falls and High falls are all a short hike from some gravel parking areas off of this road. Definitely worth the excursion! There are also mountain bike trails and camping in the area.

If you continue on Staton Road past the three water falls (about another 2 miles), the road becomes gravel and very windy. this is alot of fun to do some sliding/rally type driving. The traffic is very light on this road, however other cars are present so please be safe. There are also no guard rails anywhere along the length, with a drop off down into a mountain stream on the side, so the price of failure is high.

This whole route is one of my favorite drives when I’m in the area!

Left Lane Brain

• This topic was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by  Tim Rabideau. Reason: add pic

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[SashkaRSigeParticipant]

My wife and I have been talking about where to go with our new RV when we pick it up and, since it is now October, wanted to stay either in the southern US or California/Oregon/Washington states where we would not run into freezing temperatures. I thought the Pacific Coast Highway might be a good trip because we have not been there and I have not traveled that road in a very long time, and never in an RV. But it has been so long since I was on that road that I do not really remember where the most scenic drives are and I have no idea about RV parks along the road other than what Google tells me.

What part of that road is the nicest to drive? North of Los Angeles heading toward San Francisco? Or north of San Francisco heading toward Oregon? Are the State Parks along that route good places for an RV? And what are the places really worth seeing? We would rather stop at scenic spots and interesting towns rather than tourist places like the Hearst Castle. We will be traveling in a class B RV so we would not need large RV parks and we have no problem dry camping.

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