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List of tunnels in the United States

List of tunnels in the United States

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The following is a list of some tunnels in the United States of America. More tunnels may be found in each state than are included on this list.

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

District of Columbia

12th Street Tunnel, under the National Mall
Connecticut Avenue tunnel, under Dupont Circle
Third Street Tunnel, under the National Mall

Florida

Port of Miami Tunnel

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Silver Creek Cliff Tunnel, Lake County, Minnesota

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

New York City Subway tunnels:

Other tunnels in New York City:

The Holland Tunnel was the first underwater tunnel designed for automobiles.

Other tunnels in New York State:

North Carolina

North Dakota

  • Cartwright Tunnel, located in McKenzie County, is the first and only railroad tunnel in North Dakota. It was built in 1913 but a train never traveled through it.

Ohio

Oklahoma

  • Jenson Tunnel, located in LeFlore County (just southwest of Bonanza, Arkansas), is the first and only railroad tunnel in Oklahoma. It was built through Backbone Mountain during the mid 1880s in Indian Territory by the Fort Smith & Southern Railway. It is still in operation today, primarily used by the Kansas City Southern Railway.

Oregon

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  • Many unnamed, numbered railroad tunnels exist within Oregon.

Pennsylvania

Puerto Rico

Rhode Island

South Carolina


Tennessee

  • Cowan Tunnel/Cumberland Mountain Tunnel, rail tunnel, 1853, CSX Railroad (originally Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad), 2,200 feet (670 m), east of Cowan
  • Cumberland Gap Tunnel, twin tunnels, US 25E, under Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, between Harrogate, Tennessee and Middlesboro, Kentucky
  • U.S. Highway 441 Tunnel Northbound, between Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge and 2 more tunnels in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Highway 441 between Gatlinburg and Cherokee
  • Bachmann Tubes, which carry Ringgold Road through Missionary Ridge from Chattanooga into the neighboring town of East Ridge.
  • Missionary Ridge Tunnels (also unofficially known as McCallie Tunnels), which carry McCallie and Bailey Avenues through Missionary Ridge where the route continues as Brainerd Road.
  • Wilcox Tunnel, which carries Wilcox Boulevard through Missionary Ridge and connects to Shallowford Road.
  • Whiteside Tunnel (Missionary Ridge Railroad Tunnel) carries the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum trains between East Chattanooga and Grand Junction. Construction of the tunnel was started by the Chattanooga, Harrison, Georgetown and Charleston Railroad which went bankrupt before the work was completed. The tunnel was completed by the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad as part of their Chattanooga Branch. The railroad named the tunnel after Col. James A. Whiteside-a well known Chattanoogan and major stockholder of the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad.
  • Winchester Road Tunnel, an approximately 1,100 feet (340 m) long cut and cover tunnel going under runway 18C/36C at the Memphis International Airport in Memphis carrying 7 lanes of Winchester Road and constructed in the 1990's.[42]

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

[51] 42.941144°N 87.909384°W / 42.941144; -87.909384

Wyoming

There is also a tunnel on Rt 14 west of Cody, Wyoming right by the Cody Reservoir dam. It is around 3,600 feet long.


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