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The Gatlinburg Bypass is a two-lane road maintained by the NPS, although most of the route is located outside of the main boundaries of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Its main purpose is to allow tourists to bypass the congested business district of Gatlinburg in order to speed access to and from the national park.
The parkway serves as the primary means of access to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the most visited national park in the United States, and the numerous tourist attractions located within the cities of Sevierville, Pigeon Forge, and Gatlinburg. The parkway is one of the most congested non-freeway routes in the state, carrying more ...
The highways then continue northeasterly through Wears Valley to Pigeon Forge where they turn south onto US 441 and travel concurrent for 8.5 miles (13.7 km) to Gatlinburg (just before Gatlinburg, they have an interchange with Gatlinburg Bypass), where SR 73 and US 321 turn east and US 441 heads south.
U.S. Route 441 (US 441, Newfound Gap Road) is the main road through the park, and runs between Cherokee and Gatlinburg. [104] The Gatlinburg entrance to the park is the busiest, and is also the southern terminus of the Great Smoky Mountains Parkway, a highway which connects the park to Pigeon Forge, Sevierville, and Interstate 40 to the north ...
SR 71 begins concurrent with US 441 within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park at the North Carolina state line on Newfound Gap.US 441/SR 71 is known as Newfound Gap Road within the park, and follows along a valley carved by the West Prong of the Little Pigeon River as a narrow and curvy two-lane highway.
Mount Sterling Road: North Carolina state line; southern terminus; continues south as a gravel road; SR 32 begins as a secondary highway: Cosby: 11.25: 18.11: US 321 south (Hooper Highway/SR 73 west) – Gatlinburg, Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Southern end of US 321/SR 73 concurrency; SR 32 becomes a primary highway: 12.75: 20.52
Gatlinburg–Pittman Center line: 120.8: 194.4: SR 454 north (Buckhorn Road) Southern terminus of SR 454: Gatlinburg: 126.1: 202.9: US 441 south / SR 73 Scenic west (Parkway/SR 71) – Great Smoky Mountains National Park: South end of US 441 overlap; eastern terminus of SR 73 Scenic: 127.2: 204.7: Gatlinburg Parkway Bypass – Great Smoky ...
The Foothills Parkway is a national parkway which traverses the foothills of the northern Great Smoky Mountains in East Tennessee, located in the southeastern United States. The 72.1-mile (114 km) parkway will connect U.S. Route 129 (U.S. 129) along the Little Tennessee River in the west with Interstate 40 (I-40) along the Pigeon River in the east.