Airports

Nashville International Airport
Nashville International Airport (airport identifier BNA) is the closest airport to Macon County that has regularly-scheduled commercial flights. Airlines include: Delta, Delta Express, Comair/Delta Connection, Southwest (which has a hub here), American, American Eagle, United, United Express, Continental, Northwest and Air Canada. The Nashville Airport is approximately 50 miles (80 km) south of Macon County.  

Nashville International Airport averages 392 daily flights to 81 markets.

Visit the Nashville International Airport's web site:
www.flynashville.com

You may also wish to visit one of the airline web sites:

Air Canada: www.aircanada.com  
American: www.aa.com
American Eagle: www.amrcorp.com
Comair: www.comair.com
Continental: www.flycontinental.com
Delta: www.delta.com
Frontier Airlines: www.flyfrontier.com
Jet Blue: www.jetblue.com
Midwest/Skyway: www.midwestairlines.com
Northwest: www.nwa.com
Southwest: www.southwest.com
United Express: www.ual.com
US Airways: www.usairways.com
US Airways Express: www.usair.com

Lafayette Municipal Airport
The Lafayette Municipal Airport is located in the center of Macon County and serves private planes with a paved 3,991 foot (1216 m) runway.

Highways

Macon County, Tennessee,  is located just 35 miles (56 km) from I-65, the major north-south route from Mobile, Alabama, to Chicago, Illinois.

We are also 35 miles (56 km) from I-40, the major east-west route from North Carolina to California.

Your trucks can reach 60% of the population in the United States within 24 hours. 

The American Truckers Association recently rated Tennessee's highways as the best in the country.

Lafayette and Red Boiling Springs are on Tennessee Highway 52 which connects it to Interstate 65 on the west.  Lafayette is also on Tennessee Highway 10 which connects to US Highway 231 and Interstate 40 on the south.  Tennessee Highway 10 is currently being rebuilt to connect to I-40 and to Tennessee 840, the major controlled-access loop road around Nashville.  Red Boiling Springs can also be reached from I-40 by using TN80.

The next page of this web site discusses planned roads in the area in greater detail.

Rail

Macon County is only 60 miles (96 km) from a major CSX sorting yard and hump yard in Nashville. 

CSX provides rail service to 20 states, the District of Columbia and Ontario, Canada.  CSX serves 27 of the top 50 USA markets and 26 port cities.

Nashville is a major interchange point between Chicago, New Orleans, St. Louis and Atlanta.  On an average day, 90 trains and 7,200 cars pass through Nashville.  An average of 1,800 railcars are classified in the Radnor hump yard in Nashville; this is one of the largest hump yards in the southeast. 

In Nashville, CSX Intermodal has one of the most modern loading/unloading piggyback facilities in the country.  Approximately 9,000 containers are handled monthly.

Other Intermodal facilities are located in Knoxville and Chattanooga which are served by CSX and Norfolk Southern.

Navigable Waterways

The Cumberland River has a 9 ft. (2.7 m) channel depth.  The nearest port facilities are in Gallatin and Gainesboro.

Motor Freight

There are 14 motor freight carriers that regularly serve Macon County, and there is one freight terminal.

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