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U.S. Department
of Transportation
Federal Highway
Administration

Associate Administrator
John Baxter
202-366-9494
john.baxter@dot.gov
www.fhwa.dot.gov/flh/

Federal Lands Highway
provides planning,
design, and engineering
services to support the
highways and bridges
that provide access to
and within federally
owned lands.

Federal Lands Divisions

Eastern
Federal Lands

Eastern Federal Lands

Division Engineer
Melisa Ridenour
703-404-6201
melisa.ridenour@fhwa.
dot.gov
www.efl.fhwa.dot.gov

September 2007
See FLH website for sources

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Fact Sheet

 

Tennessee FLHP

TN FLHP road miles: 969
Funding Authorized FY 98 – 07: $79,720,000
Federal land acreage as percentage of total state area: 5.6%*
TN population: 6,038,803

 Tennessee State

  • National Park Service (14 units)

  • U.S. Forest Service (2)

  • Fish and Wildlife Service (7)

  • This percentage includes Federal lands that are not part of the FLHP core program and not depicted on the map

Photo of the Foothills ParkwayThe Federal Lands Highway Program in Tennessee.The Foothills Parkway was planned as a 72-mile scenic road traversing the northern and western perimeter of Great Smoky Mountains National Park to provide views of the Smoky Mountains from outside the park. When completed, the parkway will extend from the intersection with Interstate 40 east of Cosby, Tennessee, to Chilhowee, Tennessee.

The National Park Service has been working in partnership with Eastern Federal Lands to construct the road since the 1960s. Construction of the parkway began in 1960, with the majority of work, in 3 sections totaling 23.4 miles, completed by 1970. Currently, the emphasis is on the completion of 16.1 mile section, which is topographically difficult area that was designed using a series of up to 9 bridges. Two of the bridges have been constructed, with a third bridge to be completed by the end of 2007. The parkway will provide millions of tourists with breathtaking vistas of the mountains.

Download the Tennessee State FLHP Fact Sheet

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