Well sort of. There’s only one town where this is somewhat true.
It helps if you know that I can see I-40 from my house.
Looks like you must be west of Knoxville and possibly near Farragut. If that’s so, there appear to be (on my atlas anyway) several nearby named places that have that same feature. Unless I’m missing something big!
I live just outside Nashville, and drive on I-40, I-65 and/or I-24 just about daily. And I-440 pretty often too. In fact I can see I-65 from my office window.
Well, I guess I meant major town, so the Knoxville metropolitan area. Technically it’s 40/75, but it makes for better trivia my way!
I guess I did miss “something big” all right. Thanks for the clarification.
It’s fun meeting Tennesseans, especially the Mid-TN crowd, this way.
In case anybody wants to elaborate on their personal experiences with a particular road, this thread can handle some tangents without bothering me.
The farthest west I have been on I-40 is just into Arkansas past Memphis. The eastern extreme for me would be Raleigh as mentioned upthread.
I’ve been all the way to the southern end of I-65 and no further north on it than Louisville.
I-24 is the one I’ve covered most of, from Chattanooga up into Kentucky but not much further than the KY-TN line.
I always thought you were north of me, not west.
I’m closest to 9 and 128.
I thought I’d seen both ends of 1, but apparently it goes a lot further north than northern MA. I lost track somewhere near Prince Edward Island.
We traveled US1 along the Maine coast as far up as Ellsworth where we got off it to go to Acadia.
Speaking of roads in that area, US2 has to be one of the most picturesque roads I have ever traveled. We saw the VT-NH section but got off it in western Maine to head to Camden.
I live about 22 miles from I-40 which is just about 5 miles closer to me than I-35.
Of the three which Zeldar named, I’m closest to I-65 (at least, the northern terminus of it).
I live about 3 or 4 miles from three different interstates: I-55, I-290, and I-294.
In Northwestern Quebec, part of the route between the Ontario border and Rouyn-Noranda is labeled “101 Nord, 117 Sud.”
I-24 is in my backyard. I-840 is 5 minutes from me and I-40 and I-65 are about 20 minutes. I love living in the hub of middle TN.
Right off I-24 here, in mid-Tenn!
the Wiki link was pretty good but glossed over the objections that have stalled progress on the road. The Leiper’s Fork contingent, prominent among them Gene Cotton, have fought this road tooth and nail. It’s a case of NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) to the max!
Yeah. That’s what I almost remembered. Stunk, right?
Let me ask you something, along with other Mid-TN folks. I have a list of Tennessee Dopers I collected a few years ago. At that time there were 38 who responded to a call for Southern Dopers to speak up. Do y’all think a Tennessee Dopers Roll Call would be worth the trouble these days? If one of you wants to start such a thread I could post the list of Tennesseeans from back then.
There have already been quite a few to reply here, but I think a separate thread would be more in order. What do y’all think?
Zeldar, I was just thinking it is getting to be time for another Middle Tennessee Dopefest.
Oh, you’d wake up when you missed the turn around the lake. 
As for me, two or three miles to I-57, and we usually take that to I-80. Also not too far from 394 and 294.
But, please, please don’t make me drive on the Borman.
Closest Interstate is I-275, which connects to my next-closest, I-4 and then continues on to I-75 on either end.
We have some oddities WRT our interstates in this area.
[ul][li]I-4 is the only primary interstate that terminates in the spur of another interstate.[/li][li]I-275 is a spur route, but passes through the cities here; ordinarily, the spur route is a bypass around the cities, but here I-75 bypasses the centers of population.[/li][li]I-375 and I-175 are signed as spurs of I-75, but they only make junctions with I-275.[/li][li]I-375 and I-175 are each less than a mile and a half long.[/li]I-4, though it is signed E-W, actually ends up almost exactly NE of where it starts.[/ul]
Let’s get it in before the really hot weather starts.
[Nitpick]I-24 actually is in four states, it is GA for a few miles, as well as TN, KY and IL.
I-55 for me