page_title: Tennessee State Route 61
section_title: Anderson County
hierarchical_section_title: Tennessee State Route 61 / Route description / Anderson County
caption_attribution_description: English: Sign on I-75 for Tennessee State Route 61.
context_page_description: State Route 61 is a west-to-east highway in the U.S. state of Tennessee that is 81.67-mile-long. State Route 61 begins in Roane County, and it ends in Grainger County.
context_section_description: They then have a partial interchange with Main Street and enter Oliver Springs' main business district. Continuing southeast, they then separate with SR 62 heading into Oak Ridge and SR 61 becoming a secondary highway as it goes toward Clinton as a two-lane rural highway. It goes through some farmland in the communities of Batley and Marlow on a nearly 4-mile-long (6.4 km) straightaway before becoming slightly curvy before coming to an intersection with SR 95. It then turns east again, becoming a primary highway, as a four-lane undivided highway running along the banks of the Clinch River. SR 61 then enters the city of Clinton and junctions with US 25W/SR 9. The highway continues on through downtown and becomes a four-lane divided highway and crosses the Clinch River. SR 61 now has an interchange with I-75 (Exit 122), leaving Clinton and becoming a secondary highway. It then passes through the community of Bethel, where it passes by the Museum of Appalachia, before entering Norris and having an intersection and short concurrency with US 441 / SR 71. The highway now leaves Norris and becomes a two-lane rural highway. SR 61 then goes through the community of Andersonville before becoming extremely curvy and narrow, and enters Union County.
caption: Sign on I-75 for SR 61
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