State Route 304 (SR 304) is a

state highway A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually a road that is either Route number, numbered or maintained by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered ...

in Meigs and Roane counties in the eastern portion of the U.S. state of Tennessee. It connects Decatur to

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via SR 68 and Ten Mile. It provides access to many marinas and lakeside homes along

Watts Bar Lake Watts Bar Lake is a reservoir on the Tennessee River created by Watts Bar Dam as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority system. Geography Located in the U.S. state of Tennessee about midway between the cities of Chattanooga and Knoxville, the ...

Route description

SR 304 begins in Meigs County in Decatur at SR 58 and heads north and after 2.4 miles it begins to follow closely to the

Tennessee River The Tennessee River is a long river located in the Southern United States, southeastern United States in the Tennessee Valley. Flowing through the states of Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, it begins at the confluence of Fren ...

and

Chickamauga Lake Chickamauga Lake is a reservoir in the United States along the Tennessee River created when the Chickamauga Dam, as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority, was completed in 1940. The lake stretches from Watts Bar Dam at mile 529.9 (853 k ...

(and past

Watts Bar Dam Watts Bar Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Meigs and Rhea counties in Tennessee, United States. The dam is one of nine dams on the main Tennessee River channel operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam ...

). It passes close to Watts Bar Dam and across the river is

Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station The Watts Bar Nuclear Plant is a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) nuclear reactor pair used for electric power generation. It is located on a 1,770-acre (7.2 km²) site in Rhea County, Tennessee, near Spring City, between Chattanooga and K ...

. In the same area as the dam, SR 304 junctions with SR 68 and begins a 0.6-mile-long

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. Then it turns east on SR 68 toward Sweetwater to a junction where SR 304 turns northward and SR 68 continues southeast. SR 304 again begins to follow closely to the Tennessee River and enters the community of Ten Mile and passes some businesses, marinas and the community's post office. It then leaves the river for a short distance and enters Roane County and continues to follow the river, until it comes to an end at SR 58 south of

and north of Ten Mile.

Major junctions

References

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304 Year 304 ( CCCIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. It was known in the Roman Empire as the Year of the Consulship of Diocletian and Maximian (or, less frequently, year 1057 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 304 ...

Transportation in Meigs County, Tennessee Transportation in Roane County, Tennessee Roane County, Tennessee Meigs County, Tennessee