State Route 362 (SR 362), also known as Mary Patton Highway and Gap Creek Road, is a north-south state highway in

Carter County, Tennessee Carter County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2010 census, the population was 57,424. Its county seat is Elizabethton. The county is named in honor of Landon Carter (1760-1800), an early settler active in the "Lo ...

Route description

SR 362 begins in a narrow valley at an intersection with SR 361 just east of the Laurels Recreation Area of the

Cherokee National Forest The Cherokee National Forest is a United States National Forest located in the U.S. states of Tennessee and North Carolina that was created on June 14, 1920. The forest is maintained and managed by the United States Forest Service. It encompasses ...

. It goes north as Gap Creek Road to pass between two mountains, and a section of the Cherokee National Forest, to an intersection with Mary Patton Highway, where it splits off of Gap Creek Road and merges with Mary Patton Highway. The highway continues north through a mix of farmland and hilly terrain. The highway then meets back up with Gap Creek Road as it enters

Elizabethton Elizabethton is a city in, and the county seat of Carter County, Tennessee, United States. Elizabethton is the historical site of the first independent American government (known as the Watauga Association, created in 1772) located west of both th ...

and has an intersection with W G Street. SR 362 then comes to an end at an intersection with

US 321 U.S. Route 321 (US 321) is a spur of U.S. Route 21. It runs for from Hardeeville, South Carolina to Lenoir City, Tennessee; with both serving as southern termini. It reaches its northernmost point at Elizabethton, Tennessee. Because o ...

/ SR 67/ SR 91 (W Elk Avenue), just west of downtown along the banks of the

Watauga River The Watauga River () is a large stream of western North Carolina and East Tennessee. It is long with its headwaters in Linville Gap to the South Fork Holston River at Boone Lake. Course The Watauga River rises from a spring near the base ...

. Except within Elizabethton near its north end, the entire route of SR 362 is two-lane highway.

Major intersections

References

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