North Carolina Highway 61

North Carolina Highway 61
Route information
Maintained by NCDOT
Length	19.8 mi[1] (31.9 km)
Existed	1930–present
Major junctions
South end	NC 62 near Alamance
Major intersections	I-40 / I-85 in Whitsett US 70 in Whitsett
North end	NC 150 in Osceola
Location
Country	United States
State	North Carolina
Counties	Guilford
Highway system
North Carolina Highway System Interstate US State Scenic
← NC 60 → NC 62

North Carolina Highway 61 (NC 61) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It serves as the main north–south highway in eastern Guilford County, connecting Whitsett and Gibsonville.

NC 61 is a two-lane rural highway from NC 62, located between Julian and Alamance, to NC 150, in Osceola. Serving primary as a farm-to-market, it connects the farms in eastern Guilford County with Whitsett and Gibsonville.

Established in 1930 as a new primary routing, it traversed from NC 109, in Thomasville, to NC 60, in Julian.^[2] In 1936, NC 61 was extended northeast to US 70, near Whitsett. In 1940, NC 61 was truncated at its current southern terminus, its former routing south to Thomasville replaced by NC 62.^[3] In 1961, NC 61 was extended on new primary routing north and onto NC 100 to Gibsonville; there, it continued north to its current northern terminus at NC 150, in Osceola.^[4]

The entire route is in Guilford County.

Location	mi[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
​	0.0	0.0	NC 62 – Burlington, Julian, High Point	Western terminus
Whitsett	6.3	10.1	I-40 / I-85 – Burlington, Greensboro
	7.4	11.9	US 70 (Burlington Road) – Burlington, Greensboro
	8.2	13.2	NC 100 west	West end of NC 100 overlap
Gibsonville	10.0	16.1	NC 100 east (Main Street) – Elon	East end of NC 100 overlap
Osceola	19.8	31.9	NC 150 (Burlington Road) – Brown Summit	Eastern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus

• NCRoads.com: N.C. 61