Distance
136.9 mi
Duration
3h 48m
Checkpoints
9
Created
AUG 2, 2026
About
Enjoy a nice scenic cruise with plenty of curves for some fun. Start off at Fontana, make your way up the dragon, through Vonore, run the back roads down to Tellico, Ironworks is great for lunch/dinner, and finish it off with a rip down the Cherohala Skyway
The road
Tellico Ballplay Loop in Fontana Dam, North Carolina is graded at 1,100 corners, about 8 for every mile you drive. 180 of them are genuinely tight (16% of the road), and the sharpest turns in at an 11 m radius. The longest straight runs 1.8 miles, so there is room to breathe between the technical sections.
- Graded corners
- 1,100
- Tight (1–2)
- 180
- Tightest radius
- 11 m
- Corners per mile
- 8
Corners are graded from the route’s own geometry on the rally 1–6 scale, where 1 is a hairpin. Road & Rally calls them out as you drive.
Checkpoints
9
- #01
Fontana Dam Visitors Center
- #02
North Carolina Highway 28
- #03
4401 Calderwood Highway
- #04
119 US Route 411
- #05
107 Tennessee Highway 360
- #06
4218 Tennessee Highway 360
- #07
418 Cherohala Skyway
- #08
1037 Tapoco Road
- #09
Tellico Ballplay Loop
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