Interstate 240 (North Carolina)

Interstate 240
Interstate 240
Billy Graham Freeway
	I-240 highlighted in red
Route information
	Auxiliary route of I-40
	Maintained by NCDOT
Length	9.14 mi (14.71 km)
Existed	1980–present
NHS	Entire route
Major junctions
West end	I-26 / I-40 / US 74 near Asheville
	US 19 / US 23 / US 74A in Asheville; ; Future I-26 / US 19 / US 23 / US 70 in Asheville;
East end	I-40 / US 74A in eastern Asheville
Location
Country	United States
State	North Carolina
Counties	Buncombe
Highway system
	Interstate Highway System; Main; Auxiliary; Suffixed; Business; Future; North Carolina Highway System; Interstate; US; State; Scenic;

Interstate 240 (I-240) is a 9.1-mile-long (14.6 km) Interstate Highway loop in the US state of North Carolina. It serves as an urban connector for Asheville and runs in a semicircle around the north of the city's downtown district between exits 53B and 46B of I-40. Between those points, I-40 continues in an east–west direction further south of the city, roughly parallel to the Swannanoa and French Broad rivers. The western segment of I-240 is now being cosigned with I-26 as part of a larger project extending I-26 from its former western terminus at I-40/I-240 to U.S. Highway 23 (US 23) near Kingsport, Tennessee. However, NCDOT officially identifies this part of I-26 as Future 26.

Years prior to the loop's completion, I-240 was known as I-140; however, no signage was ever posted for I-140. The I-140 designation has now been given to a spur route in Wilmington.

^ "Route Log - Auxiliary Routes of the Eisenhower National System Of Interstate and Defense Highways - Table 2". Federal Highway Administration. Retrieved October 5, 2014.

[1] "Route Log - Auxiliary Routes of the Eisenhower National System Of Interstate and Defense Highways - Table 2". Federal Highway Administration. Retrieved October 5, 2014.

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