Tennessee State Route 1

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Map showing the west end of SR-1 in Memphis

State Route 1 (SR-1), known as the Memphis to Bristol Highway, is a mostly-unsigned state highway in Tennessee that is 538 miles (866 km) long. It stretches all the way from Memphis in the southwest corner of the state to Bristol in the northeast corner. Most of the route is overlaid on U.S. Highway 70 and U.S. Highway 11W.

SR-1 begins at Interstate 55 on the Tennessee end of the Memphis-Arkansas Bridge. U.S. Highway 61, U.S. Highway 64, U.S. Highway 70 and U.S. Highway 79 come off the bridge alongside SR-1; US-61 soon turns south with State Route 14. The other three U.S. Highways split east onto State Route 3, and U.S. Highway 51 joins, only to split with State Route 4 where SR-1 turns east alone onto North Parkway. However, US-64, US-70 and US-79 soon rejoin SR-1 at State Route 57. All of SR-1 through Memphis, except for the section on its own, is a primary route.

After leaving Memphis, SR-1 runs along the following routes:

U.S. Highway 64, Memphis to State Route 15 in Bartlett
U.S. Highway 79, Memphis to State Route 76 in Brownsville
U.S. Highway 70, Memphis to State Route 22 Bypass in Huntingdon
U.S. Highway 70 Business through Huntingdon
U.S. Highway 70, State Route 364 in Huntingdon to State Route 24 west of Belle Meade
U.S. Highway 70S through Belle Meade and Nashville to State Route 111 in Sparta
Separate through Sparta - the only signed portion
U.S. Highway 70, State Route 26 in Sparta to State Route 168 in Knoxville
U.S. Highway 11W, Knoxville to Bristol

It is primary or secondary as follows:

Primary, Memphis to State Route 76 in Brownsville
Secondary, SR-76 to State Route 186 (U.S. Highway 45 Bypass) in Jackson
Primary, SR-186 to State Route 22 Bypass in Huntingdon
Secondary, SR-22 Bypass to State Route 364 in Huntingdon
Primary, SR-364 to Interstate 40 west of Belle Meade
Secondary, I-40 to State Route 100 in Belle Meade
Primary, SR-100 to Interstate 440 in Nashville
Secondary, I-440 to Interstate 24 in Nashville
Primary, I-24 to State Route 111 in Sparta
Secondary, SR-111 to State Route 26 in Sparta
Primary, SR-26 to State Route 24 in Crossville
Secondary, SR-24 to State Route 29 south of Rockwood
Primary, SR-29 to State Route 61 in Rockwood
Secondary, SR-61 to Interstate 40 in Knoxville
Primary, I-40 to Bristol

Map showing the east end of SR-1 in Bristol

In Bristol, SR-1 leaves U.S. Highway 11W right at the state line, and heads east on its own (as a primary route) along State Street. It turns south at U.S. Highway 11E/U.S. Highway 19, ending two blocks later at Broad Street (State Route 34).

[edit] Counties traversed (west to east)

State Route 1 traverses the counties shown in the table below.

**Counties traversed by State Route 1**
County	miles	kilometers
Shelby	30.8	49.6
Fayette	7.9	12.7
Tipton	4.8	7.7
Haywood	28.1	45.3
Madison	32.1	51.6
Carroll	32.4	52.1
Benton	12.9	20.7
Humphreys	27.6	44.5
Dickson	21.9	35.2
Cheatham	9.4	15.1
Davidson	32.2	51.9
Rutherford	29.7	47.7
Cannon	14.9	24.0
Warren	24.4	39.3
Van Buren	2.9	4.6
White	22.2	35.7
Cumberland	34.2	55.0
Roane	28.0	45.0
Loudon	7.2	11.6
Knox	36.4	58.5
Grainger	31.4	50.5
Hawkins	41.4	66.6
Sullivan	25.4	40.8