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The State Line 18 Miler is 18.00 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 all the way past the stadium to Broad Street - Turn RIGHT onto Broad Street - Follow Broad Street all the way to Tennessee Ave at the bottom of Lookout Mt. (landmarks = Shoney's, Walgreens on the left) - LEFT on Tennessee Avenue (Favorite Market just past tunnel for bathroom) - Follow Tennessee Avenue to just past the Civil War Museum where Tennessee bears left and St. Elmo bears right (and Ochs Highway heads up the mountain) - Bear RIGHT and follow St. Elmo Avenue - Follow St. Elmo Avenue through St. Elmo to the CONOCO at the State Line (WATER/POWERADE/BATHROOM - need $) - 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...) - At mailbox 915, continue 1 more mile to power lines / - cooler on Rock Creek Road road at right - Continue down Rock Creek Road for 1 mile. TURNAROUND - Return by the same route through St. Elmo - When you get to Broad, take Broad all the way in to 6th - LEFT on 6th, and back to the Y