Touring North Carolina's Revolutionary War Sites (Touring the Backroads)

Barefoot offers 14 driving tours that showcase the state's role in America's fight for independence. The tours cover colonial history from Brunswick Town, where North Carolinians offered the first armed, open resistance to British colonial rule in America, to Guilford Courthouse, where Cornwallis lost a quarter of his troops seven weeks before surrendering at Yorktown. The tours follow the route taken by the Overmountain Men on their journey to the battle at Kings Mountain; explore the activities that earned the Charlotte area its nickname the "hornet's nest;" and tell the romantic story of the Scots Highlanders led by Flora McDonald.