Colonial Heritage Byway

Colonial Heritage Byway is a 92-mile North Carolina scenic byway running from Monticello to Hillsborough, tracing 18th- and 19th-century history across the north-central Piedmont. Designated in 1990 as part of the state's first class of official scenic byways, the route follows ground once used as campsites by General Nathanael Greene's Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Along Monroeton Road, the drive passes the former site of the Troublesome Creek Ironworks, used at different points as a camp by both American and British forces during the war. Between its two urban endpoints, the byway winds through rural Piedmont farmland, past dairy operations and the small towns of Yanceyville and Milton in Caswell County, offering a slower look at the region than the interstates that bypass it. At about three hours end to end, it's one of the longer North Carolina byways, layering Revolutionary War history onto a genuinely rural drive through some of the state's least-changed farm country.

• Monticello to Hillsborough
• 92 miles
• designated 1990 (NC's inaugural byway class)
• General Nathanael Greene campsites
• Troublesome Creek Ironworks site
• Yanceyville & Milton, Caswell County