North Carolina Highway 86
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| NC 86 |
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| Length: | 53 mi (85 km) | ||||||||
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| Formed: | 1940[1] | ||||||||
| South end: |    US 15 / US 501 / NC 54 in Chapel Hill, NC |
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| Major junctions: |
 I 40 in Chapel Hill I 85 in Hillsborough US 70 in Hillsborough US 158 in Yanceyville |
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| North end: |  VA 86 in Danville, VA |
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| Counties: | Orange, Caswell | ||||||||
| Major cities: | Chapel Hill, Hillsborough, Yanceyville | ||||||||
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North Carolina Highway 86 runs north/south for 53 miles (85 km) through the northern counties of North Carolina, from the Virginia state line at Danville, Virginia to Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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[edit] Route description
[edit] Orange County
NC 86 travels north from its southern terminus at US 15/US 501/Bypass NC 54/Fordham Boulevard in Chapel Hill, passing through the heart of the town and crossing Business NC 54. Exiting Chapel Hill into rural Orange County, NC 86 meets I-40 before arriving in Hillsborough. There, the route meets I-85 and then joins NC 57 for about a mile through Hillsborough's central business district. Splitting to the northeast (signed north), NC 86 joins NC 49 across the Caswell County line.
[edit] Caswell County
Entering the small community of Prospect Hill, NC 86 splits from NC 49 and travels north toward Yanceyville. Just outside Yanceyville, NC 86 joins US 158 and crosses NC 62. After passing through central Yanceyville, US 158 splits west while NC 86 continues north to the North Carolina/Virginia state line, where the route ends. State Route 86 begins at NC 86's northern terminus and travels into Danville, Virginia.
[edit] History
Prior to 1940, this was numbered as NC 14. It was renumbered to match up with Virginia's State Route 86. Simultaneous with that change, the old NC 65 was renumbered as NC 14.
The original routing between Hillsborough and Carrboro remains today as Old NC 86. The highway was moved along the more traveled corridor between Chapel Hill and Hillsborough in the 1950's [1]
[edit] See also
- Eno River
- Dan River
- The Triangle (North Carolina)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- I-85 Corridor
