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State releases update of scenic byway guide

A fisherman in the Yadkin River along the Yadkin Valley Scenic Byway. Image courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Transportation.

State transportation officials have released an update to its guide to scenic byways in North Carolina, including some local roads of note.

There's more to the High Country's roadside beauty than the Blue Ridge Parkway. Like the New River Valley Byway, which starts in Boone and follows North Carolina Highway 194 along a trail where buffalo once roamed.

Or The U.S. 421 Scenic Byway which begins in Deep Gap and offers sweeping views of the mountains.

Closer to the heart of the Triad, a backroad route connects Pilot Mountain and Hanging Rock in the Sauratown mountains. The Colonial Heritage Byway swings by an area where Nathaniel Greene set up camp with his troops after the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.

They are among 62 routes noted by state officials for their historic and aesthetic significance.

The release marks the first time in more than ten years since the scenic byway guide has been updated. Since then, 11 new routes have been added and others have been expanded.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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