I-40 reopened between Tennessee and North Carolina on Saturday, March 1, marking the first time traffic can move between the two states since Hurricane Helene hit in September 2024.

Travel on I-40 between the states of Tennessee and North Carolina has resumed. Following the devastation resulting from Hurricane Helene, this is the first time it has been open since September 2024.

In the western part of the Tar Heel State, parts of various roadways vital for interstate travel and commerce, including Interstate-40, were washed away during flooding caused ... transportation ...

including Interstate-40, were washed away during flooding caused by the storm in September 2024. While the Tennessee portion of the interstate reopened in October, on Saturday, the North Carolina ...

A 12-mile stretch of Interstate 40 between North Carolina and Tennessee, which has been closed since Hurricane Helene last September, is now open with one lane in each direction. The highway has ...

The North Carolina Department of Transportation reopened Interstate 40 on Saturday for the ... a connected transportation system between North Carolina and Tennessee,” NCDOT Division 14 Engineer ...

Five months after Hurricane Helene severed a critical Appalachian freight corridor, a 12-mile stretch of Interstate 40 through ... system between North Carolina and Tennessee,” said NCDOT ...