State Route 374 (SR 374) is a west–east state highway in

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that acts as a cross-town

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for travelers in

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Route description

SR 374 starts at one end in southeast Clarksville (near Sango) at US 41A, and heads northwest, then west, then south becoming: #Richview Road, which past Memorial Drive changes into #Warfield Boulevard to the junction of Wilma Rudolph Boulevard (

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), changing to the #

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Parkway, to Fort Campbell Boulevard (US 41A), to the west becoming #

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Parkway to Lafayette Road, changing to #Paul B. Huff Memorial Parkway (unsigned, not to be confused with

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) to its end at Dover Road (US 79). The route forms a northern loop around central Clarksville. Warfield Boulevard and Richview Road are both two-lane sections; and the 101st Parkway, the Purple Heart Parkway, and the Paul B. Huff Parkway are all four-lane limited-access sections, meeting the federal ( MUTCD) definition of an expressway. The expressway features three interchanges: a

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with Wilma Rudolph Boulevard

, a variation of the

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with

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Boulevard ( US 41A), and an uncompleted

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-like western terminus at Dover Road (US 79). Warfield Boulevard is named for a family that owned the land before it was constructed there.

Future

Construction is complete along the 101st Parkway segment of SR 374, which widened that part of the highway to four lanes and created an

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with exits that allow traffic to freely flow over

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Boulevard. Additional plans call for expansion of Warfield Boulevard on the southwest side of Clarksville sometime in the future and to Palmyra beyond US 79 on the Northwest side of Clarksville. A proposal to extend SR 374 past its current Dover Road terminus, across the

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_References

_External_links

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Major intersections

Milepoints listed in this table is an estimate of the distance between the western terminus and the junction in question.

References

External links

Tennessee Department of Transportation
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