Tennessee State Route 1
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Memphis to Bristol Highway | ||||
![]() TN SR 1 highlighed. Red primary designation and Black secondary designation. | ||||
Route information | ||||
Maintained by TDOT | ||||
Length | 538.8 mi (867.1 km) | |||
Existed | October 1, 1923[1]–present | |||
History | Designated Memphis to Bristol Highway in 1915[2] | |||
Major junctions | ||||
West end | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||
East end | ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||
Location | ||||
Country | United States | |||
State | Tennessee | |||
Counties | Shelby, Fayette, Tipton, Haywood, Madison, Carroll, Benton, Humphreys, Dickson, Cheatham, Davidson, Rutherford, Cannon, Warren, Van Buren, White, Cumberland, Roane, Loudon, Knox, Grainger, Hawkins, Sullivan | |||
Highway system | ||||
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![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Downtown_Memphis.svg/300px-Downtown_Memphis.svg.png)
State Route 1 (SR 1), known as the Memphis to Bristol Highway, is a 538.8-mile-long (867.1 km) mostly-unsigned state highway in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It stretches from the Arkansas state line at Memphis in the southwest corner of the state to Bristol in the northeast part. Most of the route travels concurrently with U.S. Route 70 (US 70) and US 11W. It is the longest highway of any kind in the state of Tennessee. The route is signed as both in the state of Tennessee, a Primary and Secondary Highway (at different times throughout its designation)
In 2015, the Tennessee Department of Transportation erected signs along SR 1 showing motorists they are traveling on the Memphis to Bristol Highway, Tennessee's first state road. TDOT installed the signs at every county line while it celebrated its 100th anniversary.
Route description
[edit]Memphis Area
[edit]SR 1 begins as a primary route on Interstate 55 (I-55) in the middle of the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge at the Arkansas–Tennessee state line. US 61, US 64, US 70, US 78, and US 79 come off the bridge alongside SR 1; US 61 soon turns south with SR 14 and US 78 continues along E.H. Crump Blvd with SR 4 heading eastward. The other three U.S. Highways and SR 1 travel along SR 4 northbound (on Danny Thomas Blvd). At SR 3 (Union Avenue), US 51 joins SR 1 and 4 while US 64/70/79 continue east on Union Avenue. At North Parkway, SR 4 continues along Danny Thomas Blvd/Thomas St with US 51 northbound, while SR 1 turns east alone onto North Parkway. However, US 64/US 70/US 79 soon rejoin SR 1 at SR 57. These 4 routes continue as Summer Avenue until exiting Memphis. The portions where SR 1 runs by itself are signed.
Between Memphis and Nashville
[edit]SR 1 is a Primary Route until it runs around Brownsville. After the junction of SR 76, SR 1 becomes a secondary route for a short time until it crosses TN-SR 186.
After leaving Memphis, SR 1 runs along the following routes:
- US 64, Memphis to SR 15 in Bartlett
- US 79, Memphis to SR 76 in Brownsville
- US 70, Memphis to SR 22 Bypass in Huntingdon
- US 70 Business through Huntingdon
- US 70/SR 364 in Huntingdon to SR 24 west of Belle Meade
Nashville
[edit]SR 1 enters Nashville from the west along US 70S through the community of Bellevue. Between Old Hickory Pike and White Bridge Road east of Belle Meade, the highway is known as Harding Pike. Between here and Downtown Nashville, SR 1 is known as West End Avenue. In downtown, SR 1 is known as Broadway. As SR 1 approaches 8th Avenue South/Rosa Parks, it turns right and southeast, joining US 41 and becoming known as Lafayette Street (briefly) and then Murfreesboro Road.
Between Nashville and Knoxville
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/TN-1-sign-Cumberland-County-tn1.jpg/210px-TN-1-sign-Cumberland-County-tn1.jpg)
Tennessee State Route 1 is a Primary Route until its intersection with US 70N/ TN-SR 24. It continues to be a secondary route until its intersection with US 11W. East of Nashville, SR 1 runs along the following routes:
- US 70S through Belle Meade and Nashville to SR 111 in Sparta
- US 41 from Downtown Nashville to Murfreesboro
- Separate through Sparta – the only signed portion
- US 70/SR 26 in Sparta to SR 168 in Knoxville
Knoxville
[edit]SR 1 enters Knox County along with US 70 and US 11 (which joins SR 1 a few feet from the county line). From here to near the downtown area, the road is locally known as Kingston Pike and near the University of Tennessee campus it is known as Cumberland Avenue. It turns north onto Henley Street becoming Broadway Street, east onto Magnolia Avenue, north onto Hall of Fame Drive, and back onto Magnolia Avenue. In East Knoxville, SR 1 splits from US 70 and continues northeast with US 11W as Rutledge Pike.
Between Knoxville and Bristol
[edit]Between Knoxville and Bristol, SR 1 runs along US 11W.
Bristol
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Bristol.svg/300px-Bristol.svg.png)
In Bristol, SR 1 leaves US 11W right at the state line, and heads east on its own (as a primary route) along State Street. It turns south at US 11E/US 19, ending two blocks later at Broad Street (SR 34).
State designations
[edit]State Route 1 runs as a primary or secondary highway as follows:
- Primary, Memphis to SR 76 in Brownsville
- Secondary, SR 76 to SR 186 (US 45 Bypass) in Jackson
- Primary, SR 186 to SR 22 Bypass in Huntingdon
- Secondary, SR 22 Bypass to SR 364 in Huntingdon
- Primary, SR 364 to I-40 west of Belle Meade
- Secondary, I-40 to SR 100 in Belle Meade
- Primary, SR 100 to I-440 in Nashville
- Secondary, I-440 to I-24 in Nashville
- Primary, I-24 to SR 24 in Crossville
- Secondary, SR 24 to SR 29 south of Rockwood
- Primary, SR 29 to SR 61 in Rockwood
- Secondary, SR 61 to I-40 in Knoxville
- Primary, I-40 to Bristol
- Interestingly, although State Route 1 is signed a Primary highway in Sparta, the TDOT Traffic Map for White County actually identifies this stretch as a Secondary Highway. (Between the eastern end of the TN-111 and US 70S concurrency to the eastern terminus of TN-26 at US 70 in Sparta). There are zero secondary designation reassurance shields signs along the entire State Route 1 corridor.
List of signed segments
[edit]- US 61, US 64, US 70 and US 79 to US 51, US 64, US 70 and US 79 in Memphis
- SR 14 and US 51 to US 64, US 70, US 79 and SR 57 in Memphis
- US 70S and SR 111 to US 70 and SR 26 in Sparta
- Along State Street in Bristol from US 11W to US 421
Major intersections
[edit]County | Location | mi[3] | km | Destinations | Notes | |||
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Mississippi River | 0.00 | 0.00 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Continuation into Arkansas | ||||
Memphis & Arkansas Bridge; Arkansas–Tennessee state line; western end of I-55, US 61, US 64, US 70, and US 79 overlaps | ||||||||
Shelby | Memphis | 0.66 | 1.06 | ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of I-55 overlap | |||
1.35 | 2.17 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of US 61 overlap | |||||
1.80 | 2.90 | ![]() ![]() | Western end of SR 4 overlap | |||||
2.67 | 4.30 | ![]() ![]() | ||||||
2.96 | 4.76 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of US 64, US 70, and US 79 overlaps; western end of US 51 overlap | |||||
Madison Avenue (including MATA Trolley Line) | Interchange | |||||||
Jefferson Avenue | Interchange | |||||||
3.76 | 6.05 | ![]() | ||||||
4.13 | 6.65 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of US 51 and SR 4 overlaps | |||||
5.53 | 8.90 | Watkins Street | Interchange | |||||
7.34 | 11.81 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Western end of US 64, US 70, and US 79 overlaps | |||||
12.80 | 20.60 | ![]() ![]() | No access to I-40 Eastbound | |||||
Bartlett | 17.90 | 28.81 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of US 64 overlap | ||||
21.21 | 34.13 | ![]() ![]() | ||||||
Arlington | 28.43 | 45.75 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||||
Fayette | Gallaway | 33.66 | 54.17 | ![]() ![]() | ||||
Braden | 37.68 | 60.64 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Western end of SR 59 overlap | ||||
Tipton | Mason | 40.72 | 65.53 | ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of SR 59 overlap | |||
Haywood | Stanton | 48.81 | 78.55 | ![]() ![]() | ||||
48.94 | 78.76 | ![]() | ||||||
Brownsville | 59.44 | 95.66 | ![]() ![]() | Western end of SR 19 overlap | ||||
61.69 | 99.28 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||||
62.47 | 100.54 | ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of SR 19 overlap | |||||
62.98 | 101.36 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of US 79 overlap | |||||
| 71.31 | 114.76 | ![]() | |||||
Madison | | 73.51 | 118.30 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||
| 81.71 | 131.50 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||||
Jackson | 86.38 | 139.02 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Western end of US 45 Bypass overlap | ||||
87.93 | 141.51 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of US 45 Bypass overlap | |||||
88.85 | 142.99 | ![]() ![]() | ||||||
91.72 | 147.61 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Western end of US 412 Business overlap | |||||
94.52 | 152.12 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of US 412 Business overlap; western end of US 412 overlap | |||||
94.92 | 152.76 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Western end of US 412 overlap | |||||
| 101.92 | 164.02 | ![]() | |||||
Carroll | Cedar Grove | 108.02 | 173.84 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Western end of SR 104 overlap | |||
108.52 | 174.65 | ![]() ![]() | ||||||
| 111.72 | 179.80 | ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of SR 104 overlap | ||||
| 112.42 | 180.92 | ![]() ![]() | |||||
Huntingdon | 113.68 | 182.95 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Western end of US 70 overlap; eastern end of US 70 Business overlap | ||||
114.29– 114.38 | 183.93– 184.08 | ![]() ![]() | Roundabout | |||||
116.36 | 187.26 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of US 70 Business overlap; western end of US 70 overlap | |||||
| 119.43 | 192.20 | ![]() ![]() | |||||
Hollow Rock | 123.81 | 199.25 | ![]() ![]() | Western end of SR 114 overlap | ||||
123.91 | 199.41 | ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of SR 114 overlap | |||||
Benton | Camden | 131.60 | 211.79 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||
133.20 | 214.36 | ![]() | ||||||
135.00 | 217.26 | ![]() | ||||||
135.90 | 218.71 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||||
Kentucky Lake | Hickman Lockhart Bridge over Tennessee River | |||||||
Humphreys | New Johnsonville | 141.20 | 227.24 | New Johnsonville Power Plant | Interchange | |||
142.36 | 229.11 | Chemours Johnsonville Plant | ||||||
Waverly | 151.87 | 244.41 | ![]() ![]() | |||||
McEwen | 160.98 | 259.07 | ![]() ![]() | |||||
Dickson | Dickson | 174.24 | 280.41 | ![]() ![]() | Western end of SR 46 overlap | |||
174.32 | 280.54 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||||
175.39 | 282.26 | ![]() ![]() | Interchange | |||||
175.88 | 283.05 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of SR 46 overlap | |||||
176.27 | 283.68 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||||
177.89 | 286.29 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||||
White Bluff | 184.21 | 296.46 | ![]() ![]() | Western end of SR 47 overlap | ||||
184.77 | 297.36 | ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of SR 47 overlap | |||||
Cheatham | Pegram | 195.08 | 313.95 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Western end of SR 249 overlap | |||
195.30 | 314.30 | ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of SR 249 overlap | |||||
Davidson | Bellevue | 200.83 | 323.20 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of US 70 overlap; western end of US 70S overlap | |||
202.63 | 326.10 | ![]() | I-40 exit 196 | |||||
204.73 | 329.48 | ![]() ![]() | ||||||
Belle Meade | 208.16 | 335.00 | ![]() ![]() | |||||
210.38 | 338.57 | ![]() ![]() | ||||||
Nashville | 212.06 | 341.28 | ![]() | I-440 west exit 1, east exit 1A | ||||
214.06 | 344.50 | ![]() ![]() | Western end of US 431 overlap | |||||
214.27 | 344.83 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Western end of US 70 overlap | |||||
214.76 | 345.62 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of US 70 and US 431 overlaps; western end of US 31, US 41, and US 41A overlaps | |||||
215.08 | 346.14 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Roundabout; eastern end of US 31 overlap; western end of US 31A overlap | |||||
215.59– 215.79 | 346.96– 347.28 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of US 31A and US 41A overlaps; I-40 exit 210C | |||||
218.26 | 351.26 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | I-24 exit 52; I-40 exit 213 (westbound only) | |||||
220.23 | 354.43 | ![]() | SR 155 exit 4 | |||||
221.98 | 357.24 | ![]() ![]() | ||||||
Antioch | 225.19 | 362.41 | ![]() ![]() | |||||
227.79 | 366.59 | ![]() | ||||||
Rutherford | Smyrna | 233.24 | 375.36 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Interchange | |||
236.53 | 380.66 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Interchange | |||||
Murfreesboro | 241.15 | 388.09 | ![]() | I-840 exit 55 | ||||
243.48 | 391.84 | ![]() ![]() | ||||||
245.83 | 395.63 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Western end of US 231 overlap | |||||
246.50 | 396.70 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of US 231 overlap | |||||
247.01 | 397.52 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of US 41 overlap; Western terminus of SR 2 | |||||
Cannon | | 260.52 | 419.27 | ![]() ![]() | ||||
Woodbury | 261.22 | 420.39 | ![]() ![]() | |||||
261.96 | 421.58 | ![]() ![]() | Western end of SR 53 overlap | |||||
262.64 | 422.68 | ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of SR 53 overlap | |||||
| 267.72 | 430.85 | ![]() | |||||
| 269.32 | 433.43 | ![]() ![]() | |||||
Warren | Centertown | 273.32 | 439.87 | ![]() ![]() | Western end of SR 287 overlap | |||
273.40 | 439.99 | ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of SR 287 overlap | |||||
McMinnville | 280.49 | 451.40 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Interchange; SR 380 is the former routing of US 70S / SR 1 | ||||
281.77 | 453.46 | ![]() | ||||||
283.88 | 456.86 | ![]() ![]() | Former routing of US 70S / SR 1 | |||||
| 286.69 | 461.38 | ![]() ![]() | |||||
| 287.49 | 462.67 | ![]() ![]() | |||||
Campaign | 293.69 | 472.65 | ![]() ![]() | |||||
Van Buren | No major junctions | |||||||
White | Doyle | 301.93 | 485.91 | ![]() ![]() | ||||
| 304.76 | 490.46 | ![]() ![]() | Interchange; western end of SR 111 overlap | ||||
Sparta | 307.86 | 495.45 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Interchange; eastern end of US 70S and SR 111 overlaps | ||||
308.91 | 497.14 | ![]() ![]() | Western end of US 70 overlap | |||||
308.99 | 497.27 | ![]() ![]() | ||||||
309.73 | 498.46 | ![]() ![]() | ||||||
Cumberland | Crossville | 333.50 | 536.72 | ![]() ![]() | ||||
335.74 | 540.32 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||||
336.19 | 541.05 | ![]() | ||||||
337.17 | 542.62 | ![]() ![]() | Western end of SR 101 overlap | |||||
337.25 | 542.75 | ![]() ![]() | ||||||
339.68 | 546.66 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of SR 101 overlap | |||||
Crab Orchard | 347.38 | 559.05 | ![]() ![]() | I-40 exit 329 | ||||
| 356.34 | 573.47 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||||
Roane | Rockwood | 359.21 | 578.09 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Western end of US 27 overlap | |||
362.01 | 582.60 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of US 27 overlap | |||||
| 365.19 | 587.72 | ![]() ![]() | |||||
Harriman | 370.00 | 595.46 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||||
Kingston | 372.80 | 599.96 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||||
376.64 | 606.14 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||||
Loudon | Lenoir City | 387.24 | 623.20 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||
Farragut | 391.24 | 629.64 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Western end of US 11 overlap; Eastern Terminus of SR 2 | ||||
Knox | 395.93 | 637.19 | ![]() ![]() | |||||
397.07 | 639.02 | ![]() ![]() | ||||||
Knoxville | 397.74 | 640.10 | ![]() | I-140 exit 1 | ||||
404.71 | 651.32 | ![]() | ||||||
408.18 | 656.90 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of US 11 and US 70 overlaps | |||||
408.44 | 657.32 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Interchange | |||||
409.82 | 659.54 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Western end of US 441 overlap | |||||
410.07 | 659.94 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | I-40 exit 388; I-275 exit 0A | |||||
410.17 | 660.10 | ![]() ![]() | ||||||
410.55 | 660.72 | ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of US 441 overlap | |||||
411.02 | 661.47 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Western end of US 11 and US 70 overlaps | |||||
414.01 | 666.28 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of US 11 and US 70 overlaps; western end of US 11W overlap | |||||
414.35 | 666.83 | ![]() | I-40 exit 392 | |||||
Grainger | Blaine | 428.85 | 690.17 | ![]() ![]() | ||||
Rutledge | 442.77 | 712.57 | ![]() ![]() | |||||
Bean Station | 454.09 | 730.79 | ![]() ![]() | Interchange; western end of US 25E overlap | ||||
456.79 | 735.13 | ![]() ![]() | Interchange; eastern end of US 25E overlap | |||||
Hawkins | Mooresburg | 460.23 | 740.67 | ![]() ![]() | ||||
| 470.43 | 757.08 | ![]() ![]() | |||||
Rogersville | 473.53 | 762.07 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Interchange; western end of SR 70 overlap | ||||
476.31 | 766.55 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Interchange; eastern end of SR 70 overlap | |||||
Surgoinsville | 481.72 | 775.25 | ![]() ![]() | |||||
488.32 | 785.87 | ![]() ![]() | Western end of SR 346 overlap | |||||
Church Hill | 492.89 | 793.23 | ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of SR 346 overlap | ||||
Sullivan | Kingsport | 501.35 | 806.84 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | I-26 exit 1 | |||
502.14 | 808.12 | ![]() | Interchange | |||||
510.99 | 822.36 | ![]() | Interchange | |||||
| 514.99 | 828.80 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||||
Bristol | 520.70 | 837.99 | ![]() | I-81 exit 74 | ||||
522.95 | 841.61 | ![]() ![]() | ||||||
523.59 | 842.64 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of US 11W overlap | |||||
524.80 | 844.58 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Western end of US 11E, US 19, and US 421 overlaps | |||||
524.95 | 844.83 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of US 11E, US 19, and US 421 overlaps | |||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Highway Planning Survey Division (1925). Biennial Report of the Commissioner of the Department of Highways and Public Works State of Tennessee for the Years 1923 and 1924 (PDF) (Report). Nashville: Tennessee Department of Highways and Public Works. pp. 39–44. Retrieved May 19, 2023.
- ^ TDOT 100 Year Anniversary
- ^ "City Maps". Tennessee Department of Transportation. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
- Tennessee Department of Transportation (24 January 2003). "State Highway and Interstate List 2003".
- Tennessee Department of Transportation official 2020 Map
External links
[edit]Media related to Tennessee State Route 1 at Wikimedia Commons