U.S. Route 127 in Tennessee

U.S. Route 127
U.S. Route 127
Route information
	Auxiliary route of US 27
	Maintained by TDOT
Length	136.67 mi (219.95 km)
Major junctions
South end	US 27 in Red Bank
	SR 27 in Signal Mountain; SR 28 in Dunlap; SR 8 / SR 111 in Dunlap; US 70 / SR 101 in Crossville; US 70N in Crossville; I-40 in Crossville; SR 62 in Clarkrange; SR 52 in Jamestown;
North end	US 127 at Static
Location
Country	United States
State	Tennessee
Counties	Hamilton, Sequatchie, Bledsoe, Cumberland, Fentress, Pickett
Highway system
	United States Numbered Highway System; List; Special; Divided; Tennessee State Routes; Interstate; US; State;

U.S. Route 127 (US 127) in Tennessee is a 136.67-mile-long (219.95 km) United States Numbered Highway from Chattanooga to the Kentucky state line at Static. The highways connects through Dunlap, Pikeville, Crossville, and Jamestown.

Route description

US 127 begins at an interchange with US 27 near the Chattanooga suburb of Red Bank. It, along with SR 8 as its hidden, or secret, companion, goes through Signal Mountain and Walden before entering Sequatchie County. SR 8 parts with US 127 to join SR 111 west of Dunlap; SR 28 joins US 127 for the remainder of the U.S. Route’s path through the state. From Dunlap, it parallels the Sequatchie River.

US 127 traverses Bledsoe and Cumberland Counties in a north-northeasterly fashion through lots of rural area, along with the city of Pikeville, where it has a brief concurrency with SR 30. Further north in Cumberland County, it arrives in Crossville, where it has intersections with US 70 (SR 1), and then traverse I-40 at its Exit 317 interchange before turning due north.

The highway enters Fentress County near the town of Clarkrange, and then continues northward to Jamestown. After bypassing Jamestown, the highway then turns northwestward to Pall Mall, where it passes Alvin C. York Historical Site, and crosses the Wolf River. It then traverses portions of east-central Pickett County before reaching the town of Static, where its intersection with SR 111 is the U.S. highway’s last intersection on Tennessee soil before crossing the state line into Clinton County in south-central Kentucky, where its junction with Kentucky Route 1076 is located.

History

The former alignment of US 127 (Main Street) at SR 52 in downtown Jamestown

US 127's current alignment was signed solely as SR 28 until the US 127 corridor's southern terminus was relocated to Chattanooga when the US route was extended south from Cincinnati, Ohio. From 1958 until the 2010s, US 127’s southern terminus was originally located in downtown Chattanooga, where it intersected US 41 during that route’s concurrency with US 76.^{[citation needed]}

In 1987, the entire alignment of US 127 in Tennessee and Kentucky became the main route for the first annual 127 Corridor Sale. The yard sale route has since extended into other areas along US 127 into Ohio, as well as varied state highways in southern Hamilton County, and into northwest Georgia and northeast Alabama. The tradition continues until this day, and this year's yard sale will be the 43rd annual one.^[2]

Junction list

County	Location	mi	km	Destinations	Notes
Hamilton	Red Bank	0.0	0.0	US 27 (SR 27 east/SR 29) / SR 8 south (Signal Mountain Road) – Chattanooga, Dayton	Southern terminus; interchange; southern end of unsigned SR 8/SR 27 concurrency
Hamilton	Signal Mountain			SR 27 west (Suck Creek Road) – Powells Crossroads	Northern end of unsigned SR 27 concurency
Sequatchie	Center Point			SR 283 south (E Valley Road) – Powells Crossroads	Northern terminus of SR 283
	Dunlap			SR 28 south – Whitwell, Jasper	Southern end of unsigned SR 28 concurrency
	Dunlap			SR 8 north / SR 111 – Cookeville, Chattanooga	Interchange; northern end of unsigned SR 8 concurrency
Bledsoe	Pikeville			SR 30 east – Dayton	Southern end of SR 30 concurrency
Bledsoe	Pikeville			SR 30 west – Spencer, Fall Creek Falls State Park	Northern end of SR 30 concurrency
Cumberland				Vandever Road to SR 282 – Lake Tansi Village	Connector to SR 282 and Lake Tansi Village
	Cumberland Homesteads			SR 419 north (Pigeon Ridge Road) – Cumberland Mountain State Park	Southern terminus of SR 419
	Cumberland Homesteads			SR 68 south – Spring City	Northern terminus of SR 68
	Crossville			SR 392 (Miller Avenue)	Beltway around downtown Crossville
				US 70 / SR 101 (Lantana Road/SR 1) – Sparta, Lake Tansi Village, Fairfield Glade, Crab Orchard
				SR 298 north (Genesis Road) to I-40	Southern terminus of SR 298
				SR 392 south (Miller Avenue)	Northern terminus of SR 392; beltway around downtown Crossville
				US 70N west (Elmore Road/SR 24 west) – Monterey	Eastern terminus of US 70N and unsigned SR 24
				SR 462 south (Northside Drive/Interstate Drive)	Northwest Connector
				I-40 – Knoxville, Nashville	I-40 Exit 317
Fentress	Clarkrange			SR 62 (Clarkrange Highway/Deer Lodge Highway) – Monterey, Wartburg
	Grimsley			SR 85 west (Wilder Road) – Livingston	Eastern terminus of SR 85
				SR 296 east (Taylor Place Road) – Allardt	Western terminus of SR 296
	Jamestown			Old US 127 (South Main Street)
				SR 52 (East Central Avenue/Allardt Highway) – Jamestown, Allardt, Rugby	Interchange
				SR 154 (Pickett Parks Highway) – Jamestown, Pickett State Park, Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, Monticello, KY	Interchange
				Old US 127 (North York Highway, North Main Street)
Pickett				SR 325 west (Red Hill Road) – Byrdstown	Eastern terminus of SR 325
				SR 295 west (Parker Road) – Byrdstown	Eastern terminus of SR 295
	Static			KY 1076 north	Intersection right on the state line; southern terminus of KY 1076
	Static	136.67	219.95	SR 111 south – Livingston, Byrdstown US 127 north – Albany, Jamestown	Northern terminus of SR 111 on the state line; US 127 continues north into Kentucky; northern terminus of unsigned SR 28
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus