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Henley Street Bridge over the Tennessee River: Main Street (east)/Cumberland Avenue (west) - University of Tennessee, West Knoxville: Former southern end of US 11/US 70/SR 1 concurrency: I-40 / I-275 – Nashville, Asheville, NC, Lexington, KY: I-40 exit 388; I-275 exit 0A: SR 62 west (Western Avenue) – Karns, Oak Ridge: Eastern terminus of SR 62
Interstate 40 (I-40) is part of the Interstate Highway System that runs 2,556.61 miles (4,114.46 km) from Barstow, California, to Wilmington, North Carolina. [1] The highway crosses Tennessee from west to east, from the Mississippi River at the Arkansas border to the Blue Ridge Mountains at the North Carolina border.
The Great Smoky Mountains Parkway is a highway that travels 23.4 miles (37.7 km) between the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Interstate 40 (I-40) in Kodak, Tennessee, in East Tennessee. It serves as the main thoroughfare for Gatlinburg , Pigeon Forge , and Sevierville , and includes a 4.3-mile (6.9 km) spur of the Foothills Parkway .
Prior to 1960, the 441 Alternate and 27 Alternate routes were the main U.S. 441 and U.S. 27 between Belleview and Lady Lake. By 1960, the main highways were re-routed onto a direct line between Belleview and Lady Lake. See map below. This map of the Cross Florida Barge Canal includes evidence of Alternate US 441 around Lake Weir.
US 441 south (Newfound Gap Road/SR 71 south) – Gatlinburg, Cherokee: Western end of US 441/SR 71 concurrency: Gatlinburg Bypass – Pigeon Forge: Interchange: Gatlinburg: US 441 north / US 321 north (East Parkway/Parkway/SR 71 north/SR 73 north) – Pigeon Forge, Cosby: Eastern terminus: 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
The 2016 Great Smoky Mountains wildfires, also known as the Gatlinburg wildfires, [1] were a complex of wildfires which began in late November 2016. Some of the towns most impacted were Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg , both near Great Smoky Mountains National Park .
State Route 449 (SR 449) is a 6.2-mile-long (10.0 km) north–south state highway in Sevier County, within the eastern part of the U.S. state of Tennessee.It travels from US 411 (Dolly Parton Parkway) overlaying Veterans Boulevard and some of Middle Creek Road in Sevierville south to US 441/US 321 in Pigeon Forge.
View of Gatlinburg and Mount LeConte from an overlook on the Gatlinburg Bypass. The need for a bypass around Gatlinburg was reportedly first raised when the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was established in 1934. [3] Preliminary planning for the bypass began in the mid-1950s as tourism to the national park surged during the post-World War ...