limits of White Pine at SR 341 (Roy Messer Highway). In the town of White Pine, US 25E becomes State Street, the main roadway in the town providing access to the town's residential and commercial areas. Exiting White Pine, US 25E connects to the Walters State Great Smoky Mountains Expo Center approaching I-81 at the Jefferson-Hamblen county borderline. Morristown-Bean Station region Entering Hamblen County, US 25E widens to a four-lane divided expressway at I-81 exit 8 and is designated Appalachian Development Corridor S. US 25E then enters the southern city limits of Morristown near the East Tennessee Progress Center industrial park. Northbound, US 25E becomes a freeway and meets Tennessee State Route 160 (Governor Dewitt Clinton Senter Highway), a southern bypass route of Morristown at a partial cloverleaf interchange. US 25E then enters the central business district of Morristown, first accessing Walters State Community College and College Square Mall at a Texas U-turn-based diamond interchange. US 25E meets US 11E (Morris Boulevard) at a partial cloverleaf interchange and shares short concurrency until meeting another partial cloverleaf interchange where US 11E splits, and heads eastbound as Andrew Johnson Highway. North of this interchange, US 25E downgrades to a limited-access four-lane highway as it approaches the Hamblen-Grainger county border at the Cherokee Lake impoundment of the Holston River. Before, exiting Morristown, US 25E has incomplete interchange with SR 343, a former alignment of US 25E. US 25E then crosses the Holston River at the steel stringer beam Olen R. Marshall Memorial Bridge. After this crossing, US 25E enters the town of Bean Station in Grainger County, passing by tourist-based commercial development before approaching the left-turn only-restricted junction of SR 375. North of SR 375, US 25E becomes a freeway, bypassing Bean Station, that meets US 11W at a trumpet interchange, beginning a short concurrency. US 25E-US 11W continues northwest, downgrading to an expressway through a minor commercial district. west of Bean Station, near Briar Fork Creek, US 25E splits from US 11W at an interchange near the base of Clinch Mountain, with US 11W heading west along the Richland Valley towards Knoxville, and US 25E northbound through Poor Valley ascending the southern slope of Clinch Mountain. Clinch Mountain-Cumberland Gap Region US 25E then ascends northbound towards Bean Gap on top of Clinch Mountain, providing access to a scenic overlook of the Clinch Mountain valley, and then descends down the northern slope of