Interstate 40 West - North Carolina to Sevierville

I-40 parallels the Pigeon River into Cocke County, Tennessee north of Waterville, North Carolina and ahead of the settlement of Browns.

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A diamond interchange (Exit 451) follows with Green Corner Road. Waterville Road parallels the Pigeon River east to Waterville while Green Corner Road stems east onto Snowbird Mountain. Exit 451 provides access to Martha Sundquist State Forest, a park offering both hunting and fishing opportunities, and whitewater rafting along the Pigeon River.

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Meeting Interstate 40 at Exit 447 and Hartford are Big Creek and Hartford Roads.

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Big Creek Road spurs northeast along Cripple Creek to the settlement Raven Branch. Paralleling I-40 northwest to Denton, Hartford Road straddles the north banks of the Pigeon River.

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Interstate 40 and the Pigeon River encircle Rich Top on Stone Mountain to the south between Hartford and Denton. Departing the freeway next is Exit 443 onto Foothills Parkway south. Designed to be Tennessee's version of Blue Ridge Parkway, Foothills Parkway leads west to U.S. 321 at Cosby.

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Foothills Parkway connects with the trumpet interchange at Exit 443. Like Blue Ridge Parkway, commercial vehicles are prohibited along all sections of Foothill Parkway. Foothill Parkway meets U.S. 321 in 5.9 miles. U.S. 321 serves northern reaches of Great Smoky Mountains National Park at Pittman Center and U.S. 441 into Gatlinburg.

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Exit 440 links I-40 west with SR 73. Formerly apart of U.S. 321, SR 73 west onto Wilton Springs Road leads 2.34 miles to U.S. 321/SR 32 (Cosby Highway). U.S. 321 represents the commercial route for traffic destined to Gatlinburg from I-40.

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U.S. 321 previously overlapped with I-40 between Exit 440 and 435. SR 73 comprises a 9.12 mile long loop northeast from U.S. 321/SR 32 to U.S. 25/70 (Broadway) at the Cocke County seat of Newport.

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Interstate 40 proceeds north from Wilton Springs across the Pigeon River at Vinson Island.

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U.S. 321/SR 32 (Cosby Highway) continue 5.60 miles north from SR 73 (Wilton Springs Road) to Interstate 40 at Exit 435 in south Newport.

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U.S. 321/SR 32 (Cosby Highway) run 1.49 miles north from the diamond interchange (Exit 435) with I-40 to U.S. 25/70 (Broadway) in Downtown Newport. U.S. 321 travels northeast from Newport to Greeneville, Johnson City and Elizabethton. U.S. 25/70 continue 12 miles east to Del Rio and 20 miles to the North Carolina state line.

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I-40 generally bypasses Newport as it makes a westward turn to Edgemont and Dandridge. U.S. 25/70 advance 1.15 miles west from U.S. 321 (Cosby Highway) to the split of U.S. 25W/E. U.S. 25E heads north to Baneberry, White Pine and Morristown while U.S. 25W continues along U.S. 70 west to I-40 at Exit 432.

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Exit 432B provides return access to Newport by way of U.S. 25W/70 east through Wilsonville.

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A directional cloverleaf interchange (Exit 432) joins U.S. 25W/70 with Interstate 40 at U.S. 411. U.S. 25W/70 west parallel I-40 northwest to Reidtown and Douglas Lake.

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Exit 432A loops onto U.S. 25W/70 west ahead of U.S. 441 south to Chestnut Hill, Harrisburg, and the Sevier County seat of Sevierville. U.S. 411 travels overall between Clevenger and Leeds, Alabama.

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Interstate 40 turns northwest across the Flat Woods and Douglas Lake to Exit 424 with SR 113 at Oak Grove.

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A parclo interchange joins SR 113 with I-40 just beyond the bridge spanning Douglas Lake. SR 113 runs 6.30 miles northeast from adjacent U.S. 25W/70 to U.S. 25E at White Pine. U.S. 25W/70 continue westward from Oak Grove into the Jefferson County seat of Dandridge.

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I-40 converges with the south end of Interstate 81 at Exit 421. I-81 joins Knoxville with the Tri-cities of Kingsport, Johnson City and Bristol.

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A three-wye interchange joins I-40 with I-81 in rural Jefferson County. Exit 421 comprises a single lane ramp for I-81 northeast to White Pine, Morristown, and I-26 to Kingsport and Johnson City.

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Signs are posted throughout eastern Tennessee referencing the hazardous materials restriction for the Cumberland Gap Tunnel along U.S. 25E.

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I-81 travels northeast along the spine of the Appalachian Mountains to Roanoke, Virginia, Harrisburg and Scranton in Pennsylvania and Syracuse, New York. I-81 joins the southeastern U.S. with Canada.

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Interstate 40 crosses over SR 68 by this confirming marker east of Chestnut Grove.

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With the addition of traffic from I-81 south, Interstate 40 expands to six overall lanes west toward Knoxville. Exit 417 departs next for SR 92, an arterial leading 1.65 miles south to U.S. 25W/70 in Dandridge.

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The diamond interchange at Exit 417 with SR 92 falls within the Dandridge town limits. SR 92 continues northward 6.95 miles from I-40 to U.S. 11E in Jefferson City and 23 miles U.S. 11W at Rutledge.

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SR 92 was realigned and widened to four lanes between Dandridge and Bays Mountain to the north in the 2000s. SR 92 extends south from U.S. 25W/70 across Douglas Lake 9.53 miles to U.S. 411.

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I-40 west meets U.S. 25W/70 a second time at Exit 415. U.S. 25W/70 continue paralleling the freeway westward into Knoxville by Piedmont and Willardtown.

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A parclo interchange (Exit 415) joins Interstate 40 with U.S. 25W/70 by the settlement of Greenhill. The three routes converge again at Exit 394 in east Knoxville.

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Interstate 40 runs between Greenhill Branch and Newman Ridge on the ensuing stretch west toward Dumplin Valley.

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Sevierville, seat of Sevier County, centers round U.S. 411/441, 15 miles to the southwest. Knoxville is 26 miles away.

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Deep Springs Road crosses paths with Interstate 40 at a diamond interchange (Exit 412) 3.0 miles north of SR 139 on Douglas Lake.

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Deep Springs Road south from Exit 412 to SR 139 west leads travelers to Douglas Dam. Northward across Dumplin Valley, the local road connects with U.S. 25W/70 in one mile.

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Leading west through Dumplin Valley, Interstate 40 enters Sevier County beyond Dumplin Mill.

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