This area is one of the "Highway Patrol Honey Hole" for Western NC. This 4-lane road is well traveled as a main route to Asheville for folks coming from TN and the mountain counties of Madison, Yancey, and Mitchell. Highway patrol units are both marked and unmarked, and the city police of Mars Hill patrol the highway hot and heavy as their city limits barly extends past the exit for thier small town. The trap runs from Mars Hill up to the Woodfin exit on this highway.