Mountain pass · North Carolina

Winding Stair Gap by motorcycle

Winding Stair Gap tops out at 3,694 ft (1,126 m) in North Carolina. It is the 8th highest of the 14 passes in North Carolina on the Motoseyir map. Below: the road surface, when it is usually closed, the passes around it and a loop you can ride over it.

Winding Stair Gap
Photo: Warren LeMay from Covington, KY, United States, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

At a glance

Elevation
3,694 ft (1,126 m)
Location
North Carolina, United States
Road surface
Paved
Winter
No seasonal closure is recorded for this road in our data. High roads can still close after snow, so check before you go.
Coordinates
35.1199, -83.5483
Sources
OpenStreetMap

Elevation is the figure on the pass’s OpenStreetMap entry or its source page; the point is the summit on the road itself.

Ride a loop over Winding Stair Gap

The web route planner opens with Winding Stair Gap as the start point. Choose a direction, how long you want to ride and how twisty the roads should be, and it draws up to three round trips that come back to the pass. Send the one you like to your phone with a QR code and ride it in Motoseyir.

Plan a loop over Winding Stair Gap

Passes near Winding Stair Gap

Winding Stair Gap in the Motoseyir app

Winding Stair Gap is on Motoseyir’s pass map with its altitude and exact location, along with 1,600+ passes in 36 countries. Add it to your tour and go.

If your route crosses a pass that may be closed this month, the app tells you before you set off, and Generate a tour skips closed passes. Passes you ride over are ticked off from your ride log automatically.

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Pass data: Motoseyir’s pass list, compiled from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL) and the source page linked above.