Scenic Byway NC 82 is a two-lane rural highway that begins at
US 421/
NC 55 (Jackson Boulevard) in Erwin. Immediately, NC 82 is in a
concurrency with
NC 217. Traveling south through Erwin on 13th Street, it splits from NC 217 and parallels the
Cape Fear River towards Godwin. Halfway between Erwin and Godwin is the Averasborough Battlefield Museum, at the site of a noted
Civil War battle that happened on March 16, 1865. Within the town limits of Godwin, it intersects
US 301 and east of there, along the Godwin–Falcon Road, is
I-95 and the town of Falcon. Going in a southerly direction, in parallel of the
South River to its east, it heads towards US 13; near its eastern terminus it makes a sharp bend onto Herb Farm Road, avoiding a section of road where a bridge once existed crossing over the South River and into
Sampson County. NC 82 ends from the Cumberland-Sampson county line. NC 82 overlaps with one state scenic byway, the
Averasboro Battlefield Scenic Byway, between Erwin and Godwin The highway from J Street in Erwin to Burnett Road near Godwin is also part of
North Carolina Bicycle Route 5. ==History==