Foothills Parkway
Foothills Parkway is a National Parkway in Tennessee. Within Tennessee it covers roughly 65 miles. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along Foothills Parkway with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.
The Foothills Parkway is a National Park Service road that runs along ridges just outside Great Smoky Mountains National Park, offering broad, unobstructed views of the Smokies' high wall to the south and the Tennessee Valley to the north. Its long-delayed "Missing Link" section, finally completed in 2018, includes a series of graceful bridges across steep ravines. It is one of the best places to take in the Smokies from a distance.
- Great Smoky Mountains views
- the "Missing Link" bridges
- ridge-top overlooks
- Tennessee Valley
- no commercial traffic
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What is a National Parkway?
National Parkways are scenic roads managed by the National Park Service and protected as parkland along their length. They're built for an unhurried recreational drive, not for getting anywhere fast.