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Interstate 40 (I-40) is a part of the Interstate Highway System that travels 2,556.61 miles (4,114.46 km) from Barstow, California, to Wilmington, North Carolina.In North Carolina, I-40 travels 420.21 miles (676.26 km) across the entirety of the state from the Tennessee state line along the Pigeon River Gorge to U.S. Highway 117 (US 117) and North Carolina Highway 132 (NC 132) in Wilmington.
Motorists traveling between East Tennessee and North Carolina are facing significant detours after sections of Interstate 40 were washed out by catastrophic flooding from Hurricane Helene.
The stretch of I-40 in North Carolina that was damaged by Helene supports about 7,610 trucks daily and a total average daily traffic of over 26,000 vehicles. Alternate route: Use Interstate 26 ...
The gorge is where a stretch of I-40 runs largely parallel with the Pigeon River and where the high-traffic interstate connects East Tennessee and western North Carolina.
On October 25, 2009, I-40 was closed at the North Carolina and Tennessee border due to a landslide at milemarker 2.6 just east of the Tennessee state line. All traffic was detoured via I-26 and I-81, and non-heavy-load traffic via US 25 and US 70. [ 59 ]
After Helene, N.C. Department of Transportation contractors have begun stabilizing westbound lanes through Pigeon River Gorge but say they aren’t sure how they will be used.
The new road opened for traffic on December 8, 2011 and extends from the previously existing section of NC 147 (now I-885) south from I-40 to an 2.8-mile (4.5 km) section of the Northern Wake Expressway. Completed in 2007, the existing section became part of the toll road on August 2, 2012.
Westbound lanes of the interstate were closed for nearly seven hours.