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The State Line 14-18 Miler is 16.00 miles on the road with flat terrain. The starting point for this route is: Downtown YMCA Comments about this route: The route: - Take 6th to Chestnut and turn LEFT - Take Chestnut to Riverfront Parkway and turn LEFT onto Riverfront - Follow Riverfront past Ross's Landing to the entrance to the Riverwalk past Marine Max and just before the SpringHIill Suites Hotel on Riverfront - Turn RIGHT onto the Riverwalk - Follow the Riverwalk for 3 miles until it ends on St. Elmo - RIGHT onto St. Elmo to Broad Street at the bottom of Lookout. - Cross Broad St. and continue on St. Elmo to the Incline (fluids usually next building just past Incline) - Cross St. Elmo and get onto the asphalt trail that will become Virginia Ave. - Follow Virginia until it dead-ends onto 55th. - LEFT on 55th and immediate RIGHT onto Buelah (parallels Virginia and is an alternate, if desired) - RIGHT onto Tennessee when Buelah ends - Follow Tennessee until 58th. - RIGHT onto 58th and LEFT onto St. Elmo - Cross St. Elmo to the CONOCO at the State Line (WATER/POWERADE/BATHROOM - need $) - TURN BACK AT THE CONOCO for roughly 13-ish miles OR... - Continue past the state line a little less than 1/10th of a mile to where 193 bears left and Chattanooga Valley bears right (there's no road sign indicating Chattanooga Valley) - BEAR RIGHT onto Chattanooga Valley (the road with no sign...) - Pipe Shop road = .6 miles (from the state line) - Straight street = .8 miles - .85 miles down Chattanooga Valley there are some new houses on the left. Morse Drive, on the left, is after the last house - Morse Drive = .9 miles - start looking for the mailbox on your right numbered 915 (Used to be the GLADDEN mailbox, for those who remember...) - TURN BACK HERE for roughly 15-ish miles OR... - At mailbox 915, continue 1 more mile to power lines / - cooler on Rock Creek Road road at right / TURNAROUND - Return by the same route through St. Elmo and onto the Riveralk to Riverfront and then back to the Y