Road to Nowhere
The Road To Nowhere The Road To Nowhere is located in Swain County, North Carolina. ... The road itself is a six mile scenic drive into the North Carolina side of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park where it dead ends. ... The town of Bryson City originally named it New Fontana Road. ... The people named it The Road To Nowhere. This road was originally built to provide access to ancestral gravesites. Rumor has it that the tunnel is haunted by the spirits of the construction workers who supposedly died during the building of the road. ... I have been to The Road to Nowhere. ... There is an eerie feel to the tunnel and the road leading up to it. ... Why was road construction halted when it had barely begun? ... Snow would not stick to road cuts. ... It is estimated that it would cost $6 million per mile to build the road, at a total cost of $125 million.