It also acted as a collector road for several small communities along the Little Tennessee River.įontana Lake largely obliterated NC 288, but officials promised they would reconstruct the highway north of the lake. It was an important route for travelers going west from Bryson City. Highway 288 was the main route between Bryson City and Deals Gap at US 129.
Residents wanted Highway 288 to be replaced as well, north of Fontana Lake through the Smoky Mountains National Park, so they could get to their cemeteries and old homesteads that are now located in the park. Most of these were relocated away from the site of the new Fontana Lake.
When Fontana Dam was built around 70 years ago on the Little Tennessee River, it displaced small communities, homes, cemeteries, churches, and roads. This road was supposed to be a replacement for North Carolina Highway 288 when Fontana Lake was created in the early 1940s however, it wasn’t – and apparently never will be. North Shore Drive heading north and west out of Bryson City, North Carolina, is best known as the “Road to Nowhere” because of its dead end in the Smoky Mountains National Park. GPS: 35.448714, -83.477157 (beginning of National Park portion of highway) The mysterious tunnel at the end of the “Road to Nowhere”.
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