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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 Gatlinburg Bypass (also known as Parkway Bypass or U.S. Route 441 Bypass) is a 3.6-mile-long (5.8 km) bypass road around the resort city of Gatlinburg in Sevier County, Tennessee, at the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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).
The parkway’s Asheville corridor remains open from Milepost 382 at U.S. 70 and the Folk Art Center to MP 393/U.S. 191/Brevard Road at the N.C. Arboretum. ... Foothills Parkway East & West ...
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 – Gatlinburg, Cosby, Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Temporarily closed due to severe damage from Hurricane Helene [299] Hartford: 450.14: 724.43: 447: Hartford Road: Temporarily closed due to severe damage from Hurricane Helene [299] 453.73: 730.21: 451: Waterville Road: Temporarily closed due to severe damage from ...
To drive from mile post zero to mile post 200.1, the parkway as it is open now, will take around six hours to complete. Blue Ridge Parkway map Joyce Orlando and Maia Pandey contributed to this report.
The foothills parkway traverses a number of high ridges in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, and provides unobstructed views of the mountains to the south, as well as the Tennessee Valley to the north. The southern terminus of the Blue Ridge Parkway is located on the edge of the park in