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Tennessee and North Carolina Cooperative Efforts Will Open The Dragon | TN.gov Newsroom

KNOXVILLE, Tenn.
The Tennessee Department of Transportation will reopen an 11-mile stretch of U.S. 129 in Blount County known as
“The Dragon” on Monday, April 12 at 8:00 a.m.
The stretch of U.S. 129 from the Tabcat Bridge to the North Carolina state line will be open to traffic each day between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.
The section of U.S. 129 from just past the Foothills Parkway to the Tabcat Bridge will remain closed as crews work to remove a rockslide that closed the roadway in March.
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This map below shows the location of the closure at the Tabcat Bridge.
The closure is on the section where US129 runs mostly straight along the lakes north of the section with the 11 miles/318 curves.
We will be able to run the Dragon north and then turn around and run it coming back to the south.
Notice the miles marked on the 11 mile section of the Dragon and US28 at Deals Gap going off to Fontana Lodge on the lower section of the map.




The turn around will be somewhere south of the rockslide but north of the twisty section of the Dragon.
Crews constructed this rock berm to protect the nearby waters of the Chilhowee Lake.