Old 98

Old highway 98 trail.

The old highway is still there in places.  Falls lake cut it off the highway when the Dam was built in 1981.

The old double yellow line is still visible.

End of Old 98

Highway 98 was created in 1934, in Wake county it was called Durham road.  In 1981, the Army Corps of Engineers opened Falls Lake, a dammed up portion of the Neuse River, and Highway 98 was cut off by Falls Lake.  Here, the end of Old 98 has become a hiking/biking trail in Forest Ridge Park. 

You can still see part of the highway pavement on the trail.

As I looked across the lake from the end of the road, I think you can see where it must have continued at the other side.