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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.
The highways then proceed out of Maryville and intersect Foothills Parkway's western segment in Chilhowee, turn south and then back east to Townsend where the highways intersect SR 73 Scenic. US 321 and mainline SR 73 turn north and SR 73 Scenic heads east into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park .
Since opening in November 2018, this new section of the Foothills Parkway connects Wears Valley to the existing parkway at Walland to the west-northwest. Most of this was already finished (in the 1960s) or nearly so, but the "missing link" section northeast of Townsend had to be completed with a series of bridges before the section could ...
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 ...
SH 157 is also known as Foothills Parkway in Boulder's city street naming system. SH 157's southern terminus is at U.S. Route 36 (US 36) in Boulder , and the northern terminus is at SH 119 in Boulder.
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
Chilhowee Mountain in winter View from the “Missing Link” of the Foothills Parkway Lakefront subdivisions along the Tennessee River shoreline in Louisville. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 567 square miles (1,470 km 2), of which 7.8 square miles (20 km 2) (1.4%) are covered by water.
US 321 north (SR 73 / East Parkway) – Newport: Northern end of US 321 concurrency: 2.1: 3.4: Gatlinburg Bypass – Great Smoky Mountains National Park: No northbound exit 5.5: 8.9: Foothills Parkway: Future interchange: Pigeon Forge: 7.1: 11.4: SR 449 north (Dollywood Parkway) – Dollywood: 9.3: 15.0: US 321 south (SR 73 / Wears Valley Road ...