Tennessee State Highway 155

Briley Parkway, or Tennessee State Highway 155 is a major beltway loop around Nashville, Tennessee. It is named in honor of former Nashville mayor Beverly Briley.

The parkway passes the Grand Ole Opry House, Opry Mills, and the Opryland Hotel east of Nashville, where it is currently being expanded from four lanes to eight. It crosses the Cumberland River twice, once near Madison, and again on the west side of Nashville, near the Tennessee State Correctional Facility and John C. Tune Airport. On the southeast portion of the loop, Briley Parkway crosses Interstate 40 and passes Nashville International Airport.

Briley Parkway is an uninterrupted, divided highway on its northern loop from I-40 near the airport to I-40 in West Nashville. Much of the northern loop between I-40 and I-65 (the section passing through Donelson and Pennington Bend) is under a massive construction project to widen it from four lanes to eight lanes, including new interchanges at I-40, U.S. 31-E, and I-65. The project is scheduled to be completed in 2007.

The other end of the northern loop, the interchange at I-40 and White Bridge Road (on the west side of town), is also mired in a major construction project that is scheduled to be complete in mid-2006. New on-and-off-ramps are being constructed to provide easier access to-and-from Briley and to separate it from the over-congested White Bridge Road/I-40 interchange.

South of Nashville, Briley Parkway becomes Thompson Lane and Woodmont Boulevard, before changing to White Bridge Road and Briley Parkway again. These roads are not interrupted, divided highways. Woodmont Boulevard is the only section of the continuous road not designated as TN-155. As Thompson Lane, it passes through Berry Hill at Interstate 65 south and passes 100 Oaks Mall. As Woodmont Boulevard it passes Saint Thomas Hospital and Aquinas College in Belle Meade.

Of 6 interstate crossings, the only one inaccessible directly from this road is I-65 South of town, though drivers can be directed to one on Powell Avenue.

To make the complete circle, at the speed limit, will take a driver 70 to 90 minutes, most of which will be spent on the southern loop of this continuous road.

Exit list

• Exit 2 – Interstate 24 (Southeast of Nashville)
• Exit 3 – Murfreesboro Road (U.S. Highway 41)
• Exit 4 – Airways Blvd (former exit to old Nashville Metropolitan Airport, which closed in 1987)
• Exit 5A/5B – Interstate 40 (East of Nashville)
• Exit 6 – Elm Hill Pike
• Exit 8 – Lebanon Pike (U.S. Highway 70)
• Exit 10 – Two Rivers Parkway
• Exit 11 – Opry Mills Drive (former exit to Opryland USA theme park, which closed in 1997)
• Exit 12 – McGavock Pike/Music Valley Drive/Opryland Hotel
• Exit 15 – Gallatin Pike (U.S. Highway 31E northbound at Madison and Inglewood)
• Exit 16 – Ellington Parkway/Briarville Road (U.S. Highway 31E southbound)
• Exit 17 – Interstate 65 (North of Nashville)
• Exit 18 – Brick Church Pike
• Exit 19 – Interstate 24 (Northwest of Nashville)
• Exit 20 – Whites Creek Pike (U.S. Highway 431)
• Exit 21 – Clarksville Highway (U.S. Highway 41A)
• Exit 25 – Hydes Ferry Pike (Tennessee State Highway 12 at Bordeaux)
• Exit 27 – County Hospital Road
• Exit 29 – Centennial Boulevard
• Unnumbered exit at Interstate 40 (West of Nashville), becomes White Bridge Road