Ocoee Scenic Byway
Ocoee Scenic Byway is a National Forest Scenic Byway in Tennessee. Within Tennessee it covers roughly 35 miles. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along Ocoee Scenic Byway with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.
US-64 follows the Ocoee River through a steep gorge in the Cherokee National Forest of southeastern Tennessee, the first National Forest Scenic Byway in the country. The river hosted the whitewater events of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and remains one of the most popular rafting rivers in the East, often running over a dam-fed course right beside the road. Forested mountains wall in the gorge.
- Ocoee River gorge
- 1996 Olympic whitewater
- Cherokee National Forest
- rafting
- US-64
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What is a National Forest Scenic Byway?
National Forest Scenic Byways are routes designated by the U.S. Forest Service that thread through the mountains, canyons and old growth of America's national forests and grasslands.