Tennessee State Route 227

State Route 227 (SR 227) is a 32.3-mile-long (52.0 km) east–west state highway in extreme southern Middle Tennessee. It is the only state highway in Tennessee that both begins and ends at the Alabama state line, with one end at Cypress Inn and the other just across the state line from Lexington, Alabama.

State Route 227
SR 227 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by TDOT
Length	32.3 mi (52.0 km)
Existed	July 1, 1983[1]–present
Major junctions
West end	SR 157 at the Alabama state line in Cypress Inn
Major intersections	SR 13 in Fairview US 43 in Saint Joseph
East end	SR 101 at the Alabama state line near Lexington, AL
Location
Country	United States
State	Tennessee
Counties	Wayne, Lawrence
Highway system
Tennessee State Routes Interstate US State
← SR 226 → SR 228

Route description

SR 227 begins in Wayne County at the Alabama state line in the Cypress Inn community, where it continues south as Alabama State Route 157 (SR 157). SR 227 immediately makes a sharp right turn at an intersection with Big Cypress Road, which provides access to the Natchez Trace Parkway, before going east through a mix of farmland and wooded areas for several miles to the community of Fairview, where it has a short concurrency with SR 13. It then enters the Highland Rim and winds its way east through mountains to cross into Lawrence County.^[2] The highway almost immediately passes through the town of Iron City, where it has an intersection with SR 242 and crosses over Shoal Creek, before going east through mountains to the town of Saint Joseph where it comes to an intersection and becomes concurrent with US 43/SR 6. They head northeast through farmland for a few miles to the town of Loretto, where SR 227 breaks off and turns southeast. SR 227 passes through wooded areas, then very rural farmland, for several miles before coming to the Alabama state line, where it continues into Lexington, Alabama as Alabama State Route 101 (SR 101).^[3] Excluding the concurrency with US 43, which is a four-lane undivided highway, the entire route of SR 227 is a two-lane highway.^[4]

Major intersections

County	Location	mi	km	Destinations	Notes
Wayne	Cypress Inn	0.0	0.0	SR 157 south (Cloverdale Road) – Cloverdale	Alabama state line; western terminus
				Big Cypress Road to Natchez Trace Parkway – Lutts	Access road to the Natchez Trace Parkway
	Fairview			SR 13 north (Chisholm Road) – Collinwood	Western end of SR 13 concurrency
				SR 13 south (Chisholm Road) – Zip City, AL, Florence, AL	Eastern end of SR 13 concurrency
Lawrence	Iron City			SR 242 north (Wayland Springs Road) – Westpoint, Lawrenceburg	Southern terminus of SR 242
				Bridge over Shoal Creek
	Saint Joseph			US 43 south (SR 6 south) – Killen, AL, Florence, AL	Western end of US 43/SR 6 concurrency
	Loretto			US 43 north (South Military Street / SR 6 north) – Leoma, Lawrenceburg	Eastern end of US 43/SR 6 concurrency
	​	32.3	52.0	SR 101 south (Wheeler Dam Highway) – Lexington	Alabama state line; eastern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus

References

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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. Wayne County road map (PDF) (Map). Nashville: Tennessee Department of Transportation. Retrieved September 29, 2019.^{[full citation needed]}
3. Lawrence County road map (PDF) (Map). Nashville: Tennessee Department of Transportation. Retrieved September 29, 2019.^{[full citation needed]}
4. "Overview Map of SR 227" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved September 29, 2019.