Pottery Road
Pottery Road is a State Scenic Byway in North Carolina. Within North Carolina it covers roughly 25 miles. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along Pottery Road with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.
Pottery Road runs from Seagrove to Eagle Springs in central North Carolina, through the largest concentration of working potters in the United States. The byway follows NC 705 out of Seagrove, a town whose pottery tradition dates to the 18th century, through Robbins and on to Eagle Springs in Moore County, passing close to roughly 80 individual pottery studios along and near the route. Families like the Coles, Aumans, Owens, Teagues, and Albrights represent eighth- and ninth-generation potters still working local clay, and historic operations including Original Owens Pottery, founded in 1895, and Jugtown Pottery, founded in 1921, remain open to visitors today. Locally, the road is better known by its nickname, the Pottery Highway, and it also forms part of a longer 150-mile bicycle route called the Pottery Loop for cyclists touring the area's studios. Unlike most scenic byways built around landscape, this one is built around a living craft tradition, and most visitors plan stops at working studios rather than overlooks.
- Seagrove to Eagle Springs on NC 705
- largest concentration of potters in the US
- Original Owens Pottery (1895)
- Jugtown Pottery (1921)
- 8th/9th-generation pottery families
- Pottery Loop bicycle route
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What is a State Scenic Byway?
State Scenic Byways are roads a state has formally recognized for their scenic, natural, historic or cultural value — each state's own curated collection of drives worth taking slowly.
Where to Stay along Pottery Road
No campgrounds are listed close to Pottery Road yet, but there are rooms near the route.
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