226A "The Diamondback"

10/20/2024

Finally made it to the cabin in Little Switzerland.

05/23/2024

I forgot how much I like riding in the evenings. With all the city lights and a traffic is a lot less and it's a little cooler. Before I knew it I was across town and back.

08/16/2023

The Diamondback 226A. I love riding this area so much I built a home here in Little Switzerland. I'm Will Perry and my wife and I ride every chance we can. We have rode most all the routes from "The Tail of the Dragon" just south of Bryson City NC to " the back of the Dragon" VA. including all of "The Blue Ridge Parkway".

This is where can you find more than 190 steep, climbing curves in just 12 miles. The Diamondback - North Carolina's last alternate route! With so many other riding roads like "Crabtree Rd." "The Parkway" and "NC80/ Buck Creek Rd. also known as the Devil's Whip" you can spend the weekend riding some of the greatest roads around.

Sweeping curves, amazing scenery and cool mountain breezes make the Diamondback, NC 226A, one of Western North Carolina's last great mountain roadways.

The Diamondback, NC 226A is loaded with switchbacks looping almost 360-degrees. Runs of S-curves climb and twist sharply as they snake through lush green forest in route to the Blue Ridge Parkway just above Spruce Pine, North Carolina.

This heavily wooded trek, from Marion in McDowell County to Switzerland Inn, on the edge of Mitchell County, NC is an exciting and challenging drive. Two-lanes of smooth, well-marked pavement are flanked by rocky outcroppings, sheer drop-offs and quick, tight hairpin curves.

08/06/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuWwuTsKS_4&ab_channel=JohnGunkle

Riding the Diamondback NC Highway 226A towards Little Switzerland on my 2013 Road Glide Custom on April 8, 2017.

06/05/2022