page_title: Sam Cooper Boulevard
section_title: Existing exits
hierarchical_section_title: Sam Cooper Boulevard / Exit list / Existing exits
caption_attribution_description: English: Overton Park Billboard at the western terminus of Sam Cooper Bouleward at East Parkway North in Memphis, Tennessee.
context_page_description: Sam Cooper Boulevard is an urban highway in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. The more recent western segment of the road follows a parkway design, the older eastern portion which was proposed and constructed as a segment of Interstate 40 is built as a freeway, without at-grade intersections and traffic lights. The western terminus of Sam Cooper Boulevard is at East Parkway North. At the western termination point of the road there is a short concurrency of East Parkway North with U.S. Route 64, U.S. Route 70, and U.S. Route 79. From its western end, Sam Cooper Boulevard continues east for 5.8 miles to reach its eastern terminus at the Interstate 40/Interstate 240 interchange.
  The road was originally planned in the 1950s. It was proposed as a segment of I-40 that would intersect the center of Memphis and continue west to Arkansas. The proposed route would have cut through Overton Park, an old forest public park in Memphis. Following a United States Supreme Court decision in 1971 the route was revised, I-40 was routed around Memphis in the north and plans of routing an Interstate highway through the city were abandoned.
context_section_description: The following table lists the existing exits and intersections of Sam Cooper Boulevard as of 2017 from west to east. The entire route is in Memphis, Shelby County.
caption: Western terminus (2010)
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