If your going as far as the river... go into kentucky.. I was down about 3 weeks ago and road Route 10 and 22. AMAZING. People travel to ride those 2 roads down there. Amazing non stop turning action and not a SINGLE portion of either road and ANY gravel what so ever. They take care of the roads down there. Its only a 2hr trip there. Well worth the time.
Ive ridden route 26 before, its like a mini deals gap. It was bad ass when I road it a couple summers back, Im not sure what its like these days though. I forget how many miles of turns it was hmm