Interstate 26

Basic data
Length:	347 mi / 558 km
States:	Tennessee North Carolina South Carolina
Course direction:	Northwest - Southeast
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The Interstate 26 (abbreviated I-26 ) is interstate highway in the southeastern United States . It begins on US Highways 11W and 23 in Kingsport and ends in Charleston on US Highway 17 .

Interstate 26 runs diagonally from north-west to south-east. This is unique because most of the other interstate highways in this area run north-east to south-west.

The numbers of the exits in Tennessee used to be opposite to the numbers of the other states, since the interstate used to belong to US 23 and I-181 . In March 2007 all numbers at the exits were standardized.

Lengths

miles	km	Country
55	89	Tennessee
71	114	North Carolina
220.95	355.58	South carolina
347	558	Total

Important cities

• Kingsport, Tennessee
• Johnson City, Tennessee
• Asheville, North Carolina
• Spartanburg, South Carolina
• Columbia, South Carolina
• Charleston, South Carolina

Feeders and bypasses

Transfer to I-26

• Interstate 126 at Columbia
• Interstate 526 at Charleston

Web links

Commons : Interstate 26  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Political history of the I-26 (English)