Cowpens National Battlefield Scenic Highway
Cowpens National Battlefield Scenic Highway is a State Scenic Byway in South Carolina. Within South Carolina it covers roughly 9 miles. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along Cowpens National Battlefield Scenic Highway with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.
Cowpens National Battlefield Scenic Highway crosses South Carolina's Upstate near Gaffney, leading to the site of a pivotal 1781 Revolutionary War battle. The route, largely following Highway 110, connects to the longer Cherokee Foothills National Scenic Byway and runs about eight miles to Interstate 85 near the town of Cowpens. It ends at Cowpens National Battlefield, where General Daniel Morgan's Patriot militia used a double-envelopment tactic to defeat Banastre Tarleton's British force in January 1781, a battle historians credit as a turning point in the war's Southern campaign. The drive itself passes through open meadows, hardwood forests, and gentle hills that look much as they did the morning of the fight, interspersed with working farms, roadside peach stands in summer, and small country churches. That agricultural character gives the byway a different feel from South Carolina's coastal and mountain routes. It's a short, quiet drive best combined with a stop at the battlefield's visitor center off Chesnee Highway in Gaffney.
- Gaffney, SC Upstate
- Battle of Cowpens (1781)
- Highway 110
- connects to Cherokee Foothills byway
- double-envelopment tactic
- roadside peach stands
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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 Cowpens National Battlefield Scenic Highway
1 campground or RV park sits within about 5 miles of Cowpens National Battlefield Scenic Highway.
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