Interstate 65 in Tennessee

This article is about the section of Interstate 65 in Tennessee. For the entire length of the highway, see Interstate 65.

Interstate 65
The Albert Arnold Gore Sr. Memorial Highway
Route information
Maintained by Tennessee DOT
Length:	121.71 mi[citation needed] (195.87 km)
Existed:	1958 – present
Major junctions
South end:	I-65 at Alabama state line
	US-64 near Frankewing US-412 in Columbia I-440 in Nashville US-70 / US-431 in Nashville I-40 in Nashville I-24 in Nashville US-31W / US-41 in Nashville
North end:	I-65 at Kentucky state line
Highway system
Main route of the Interstate Highway System Main • Auxiliary • Business Tennessee State Routes Interstate • US ← SR-64 SR-65 →

Interstate 65 in Tennessee runs from Ardmore, Tennessee north to just south of Franklin, Kentucky, forming part of the national Interstate 65, which goes from Mobile, Alabama to Gary, Indiana. In Tennessee the highway's official name is The Albert Arnold Gore Sr. Memorial Highway.

Route description

I-65 enters Tennessee from the south near the town of Ardmore, and passes through mostly rural territory for 65 miles (105 km). At Tennessee Exit 1 (State Route 7), U.S. Highway 31 separates from the Interstate, having merged at Athens, Alabama, and immediately services Elkton. Its first city in Tennessee is Franklin. Then the route travels through Brentwood, Tennessee, downtown Nashville, Madison, Goodlettsville, White House, and it exits near Portland into Kentucky to the north.

Interstate 65 southbound in Nashville.

Northbound I-65 overlaps with Interstates 40 and 24 at separate points in Nashville, forming a small loop around the center of the city. Until 2000, the two-mile long (three kilometer) northern leg of this loop was designated "Interstate 265". On April 7, 2000, the designation I-265 vanished, and Interstate 65 itself was re-routed from the eastern half of the small loop (where it overlapped with I-40 and I-24) to the western half of the loop (where it overlaps with Interstate 40 only on the western side, and it has the northern stretch to itself). Nashville-Davidson County's city/county government had argued to have the designations changed in order to help alleviate traffic congestion caused by motorists' following I-65 through the main body of the city. Because of this, the new I-65 route is approximately one mile longer than the previous route. As a result, mile markers north of Nashville do not accurately represent the length of I-65 in Tennessee.

A former General Motors Corporation factory, where Saturn and Chevrolet cars were made between 1990 and 2009, is within a short driving distance from the interstate in Spring Hill, Tennessee. Also, the Nissan company's manufacturing plant in Smyrna, Tennessee is located approximately 30 miles (48 km) to the east of I-65.

History

A small part of I-65 was the first interstate Highway opened to traffic in Tennessee. A 1.8-mile (2.9 km) section near the Alabama-Tennessee state line opened on November 15, 1958. The McDowell and McDowell Construction company had started work on the interchange in May 1957.

Exit list

County	Location	Mile	#	Destinations	Notes
Giles			1	US-31 / SR-7 – Ardmore, Pulaski, Lawrenceburg, Huntsville	North end of US 31 overlap
			6	SR-273 – Elkton
			14	US-64 / SR-15 (Fayetteville Highway) – Pulaski, Fayetteville
Marshall			22	US-31A (Sam Davis Highway, Lewisburg Highway) – Pulaski, Lewisburg
			27	SR-129 (Lynnville Road)
			32	SR-373 (Mooresville Highway) – Lewisburg
Maury	Columbia		37	SR-50 – Columbia
			46	US-412 / SR-273 (Sylvester Chunn Highway) – Columbia
Williamson			53	SR-396 (Saturn Parkway) – Spring Hill
			59	SR-840 – Murfreesboro, Lebanon	Local traffic westbound only due to continuing construction of SR 840 towards I-40
			61	SR-248 (Peytonsville Road) – Spring Hill
	Franklin		65	SR-96 – Franklin
			67	McEwen Drive
			68	Cool Springs Boulevard
			69	SR-441 (Moores Lane)
	Brentwood		71	SR-253 (Concord Road) – Brentwood
Davidson			74	SR-254 (Old Hickory Boulevard) – Brentwood
	Nashville		78	SR-255 (Harding Place)
			79	Armory Drive
			80	I-440 – Memphis, Knoxville, Chattanooga
			81	Wedgewood Avenue
			82	I-40 east – Knoxville, Chattanooga	South end of I-40 overlap
			209 (I-40)	Demonbreun Street
			209A (I-40)	US-70 / US-70S / US-431 (Broadway)
			209B (I-40)	US-70 (Charlotte Pike/Church Street)
			84	I-40 west – Memphis	North end of I-40 overlap
			85	US-41A / SR-12 (Rosa L. Parks Boulevard) – Downtown Nashville	Formerly MetroCenter Boulevard and 8th Avenue, officially changed to current name on August 6, 2007
			86	I-24 east – Chattanooga	South end of I-24 overlap
			87	US-431 (Trinity Lane)
			88	I-24 west – Clarksville	North end of I-24 overlap
			90A	US-31W / US-41 (Dickerson Pike)
			90B	SR-155 (Briley Parkway)
			92	SR-45 (Old Hickory Boulevard)
			95	SR-386 (Vietnam Veterans Boulevard) – Hendersonville, Gallatin
			96	Rivergate Parkway – Goodlettsville
			97	SR-174 (Long Hollow Pike) – Goodlettsville, Gallatin
Sumner			98	US-31W / US-41 – Millersville
Robertson			104	SR-257 (Bethel Road) – Ridgetop
			108	SR-76 – White House, Springfield
			112	SR-25 – Cross Plains, Springfield, Gallatin
			117	SR-52 – Portland, Orlinda

References

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