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Places worth the detour in North Carolina

Detourmap lists 104 places in North Carolina, United States, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Great Smoky Mountains National Park. 92 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Nature78 Archaeological26
Places
104
Oldest
Roanoke Colony 1584
Little known
92 of 104
Share of United States
3%

North Carolina 104

All 104, best known first.

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in North Carolina?

Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 20th century. U.S. national park in Tennessee and North Carolina. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in North Carolina?

104: 78 nature & landscapes and 26 archaeological & historic sites. 92 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.

What is the oldest place on this map in North Carolina?

Roanoke Colony, dated to 1584. 20 of the 104 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as North Carolina here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in North Carolina if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. North Carolina is a first-level division of United States, the same level as a state or a province.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.