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The Foothills Parkway is a national parkway which traverses the foothills of the northern Great Smoky Mountains in East Tennessee, located in the southeastern United States. The 72.1-mile (114 km) parkway will connect U.S. Route 129 (U.S. 129) along the Little Tennessee River in the west with Interstate 40 (I-40) along the Pigeon River in the east.
Parkway then has an intersection with US 321/SR 73 (East Parkway), where SR 73 Scenic ends and US 321/SR 73 joins Parkway. Parkway heads north to have another interchange with the Gatlinburg Bypass before leaving Garlinburg and becoming a divided highway known as the Foothills Parkway Spur (more commonly known as The Spur).
Although it was initially approved for construction in 1944 as a 71-mile-long route, the first part to be completed was the westernmost section (17 miles of pavement between Walland and Chilhowee ...
Foothills Parkway east to I-40: Current western end of section 8A of the Foothills Parkway: 13.2: 21.2: SR 339 west (Jones Cove Road) – Cherokee Hills: Eastern terminus of SR 339 18: 29: SR 73 north (Wilton Springs Road) to I-40: Northern end of SR 73 concurrency: Newport: 23.75: 38.22: I-40 – Knoxville, Asheville: I-40 exit 435
US 321 (Lamar Alexander Parkway/SR 73) – Friendsville, Lenoir City, Walland, Townsend: Provides access to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park: 37.8: 60.8: SR 446 west (Foothills Mall Drive) SR 446 is unsigned; eastern terminus of SR 446: Alcoa: 38.2: 61.5: West Bessemer Street / Middlesettlements Road: Diverging diamond interchange: 40.0 ...
Interstate highway [1] [2] Additional information I-24: A major west-east interstate that enters the Metro Nashville-Davidson County area near Joelton.It enters the city on its northern side, passes the east side of downtown, goes southeastward towards Antioch, and exits the city when reaching Rutherford County.
West of downtown Nashville, the three-mile (4.8 km) section between SR 155 (Briley Parkway/White Bridge Road) and US 70 (Charlotte Pike) was expanded to six lanes from February 1988 to December 1989. From April 1991 to December 1992, the 5.9-mile (9.5 km) section in Bellevue linking US 70 and US 70S was widened to six lanes.
In Nashville, US 431, known as Hillsboro Pike, traverses the exit 3 interchange on I-440, and eventually merges into US 70/SR 1 before entering the downtown area. US 431 then joins US 31 and US 41A onto the James Robertson Parkway .