Brandywine Valley Scenic Byway
Brandywine Valley Scenic Byway is a National Scenic Byway in Pennsylvania. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along Brandywine Valley Scenic Byway with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.
The Brandywine Valley Scenic Byway winds 25 miles through Chester and Delaware counties, tracing Route 52 north to Route 162 and returning via Creek Road to the Delaware state line. It crosses the rolling hills and creek valleys where the Brandywine River shaped early American history. The Federal Highway Administration and PennDOT designated it a National Scenic Byway on February 16, 2021, elevating a corridor that Pennsylvania's own byway program, created in 2001, had already recognized. Joined with Delaware's connecting Brandywine Valley byway segment across the state line, the route forms a figure-eight loop spanning both states. The valley's history runs from colonial-era settlement through the Revolutionary War to the Underground Railroad, and later became home to estates and cultural institutions built by families including the du Ponts. Drivers pass stone farmhouses, mills, and wooded creek bottoms that have drawn artists and preservationists for generations, making this one of the Mid-Atlantic's more historically layered scenic drives.
- Route 52 to Route 162 via Creek Road
- 25 miles across Chester & Delaware counties
- National Scenic Byway since February 2021
- Forms a figure-eight with Delaware's Brandywine byway
- Revolutionary War & Underground Railroad history
- Du Pont family estates and museums
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What is a National Scenic Byway?
National Scenic Byways are roads recognized at the federal level for at least one outstanding quality — scenic, natural, historic, cultural, archaeological or recreational — that gives travelers a reason to seek them out rather than just pass through.
Where to Stay along Brandywine Valley Scenic Byway
1 campground or RV park sits within about 5 miles of Brandywine Valley Scenic Byway.
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