Tennessee State Route 240

State Route 240
Turnpike
SR 240 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by TDOT
Length	17.2 mi (27.7 km)
Existed	July 1, 1983[1]–present
Major junctions
South end	US 64 near Deerfield
Major intersections	SR 241 near Henryville SR 242 in Henryville SR 20 in Summertown
North end	US 43 in Summertown
Location
Country	United States
State	Tennessee
Counties	Lawrence
Highway system
Tennessee State Routes Interstate US State
← I-240 → SR 241

State Route 240 (SR 240) is a 17.2-mile-long (27.7 km) north–south state highway in Lawrence County, Tennessee. Except for a short stretch in Summertown, the entire route of SR 240 is known simply as Turnpike.

Route description

SR 240 begins as Turnpike just west of Deerfield at an intersection with US 64/SR 15. It goes northeast along the southern edge of Laurel Hill Wildlife Management Area to pass through farmland and have a short concurrency with SR 241 before passing through Henryville, where it has an intersection with SR 242. The highway then crosses the Buffalo River passes through a mix of farmland and wooded areas before entering Summertown, where it turns east to have a concurrency with SR 20 before turning south along Monument road and coming to an end at an intersection with US 43/SR 6. The entire route of SR 240 is a two-lane highway.^[2][3]

Major intersections

The entire route is in Lawrence County.

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Location	mi	km	Destinations	Notes
​	0.0	0.0	US 64 (Waynesboro Highway/SR 15) – Waynesboro, Lawrenceburg	Southern terminus
​			SR 241 north (Napier Road)	Southern end of wrong-way SR 241 concurrency
​			SR 241 south (Red Hill-Center Road) – Deerfield	Northern end of wrong-way SR 241 concurrency
Henryville			SR 242 south (Henryville Road) – Lawrenceburg	Northern terminus of SR 242
			Bridge over the Buffalo River
Summertown			SR 20 west – Hohenwald	Southern end of SR 20 concurrency
			SR 20 east	Northern end of SR 20 concurrency
	17.2	27.7	US 43 (Andrew Jackson Highway/SR 6) – Lawrenceburg, Ethridge, Mount Pleasant, Columbia	Northern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus

References

Template:Attached KML/Tennessee State Route 240

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1. "The Road To 100 Years" (PDF). Tennessee Road Builder. Vol. 17, no. 5. September 2014. p. 22. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
2. "Lawrence County" (PDF). Tennessee Department of Transportation. Retrieved October 24, 2022.
3. "TN-240" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved October 24, 2022.