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America's Best Spring Drives

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America's best spring drives: Cherokee Foothills Scenic Highway

Courtesy of America's Byways

Cherokee Foothills Scenic Highway, South Carolina

The Route: 120 miles.

This National Scenic Byway sticks to an early Native American trail (the Cherokees called these foothills the Great Blue Hills of God) that weaves through the low Piedmont Hills past waterfalls, covered bridges, and brooks. To catch peach orchards and trees in full bloom, time your drive to late spring or early summer.

Where to Stop: Hundreds of roadside stands that begin filling with fruit in early June. The famous Peachoid water tower, painted to look like a colossal peach, is in the town of Gaffney, where mountain laurels begin to blossom in late May.



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