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=== Virginia === {{Main|Interstate 81 in Virginia}} [[File:2019-07-08 14 24 49 View south along Interstate 81 from the overpass for Carrier Drive in Harrisonburg, Virginia.jpg|right|thumb|I-81 looking southbound near milepost 245 in [[Harrisonburg, Virginia]]]] I-81 in Virginia is largely a rural route with brief concurrencies with [[Interstate 77|I-77]] and [[Interstate 64|I-64]]. The route parallels the Appalachian Mountains for much of its route through Tennessee and Virginia, serving such cities as the [[twin cities]] of Bristol, [[Bristol, Tennessee|Tennessee]] and [[Bristol, Virginia|Virginia]]; [[Wytheville, Virginia|Wytheville]]; [[Roanoke, Virginia|Roanoke]]; [[Christiansburg, Virginia|Christiansburg]]; [[Lexington, Virginia|Lexington]]; [[Staunton, Virginia|Staunton]]; [[Harrisonburg, Virginia|Harrisonburg]]; and [[Winchester, Virginia|Winchester]]. In Harrisonburg, I-81 cuts through [[James Madison University]].<ref name="Fiske Logue 2006">{{cite book |last1 = Fiske |first1 = E.B. |last2 = Logue |first2 = R. |title = The Fiske Guide to Colleges |location = New York |publisher = Times Books |year = 2006 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=sKvSAAAAIAAJ |access-date = February 26, 2018 |via = [[Google Books]] |page = 358 |isbn = 9781402203749 |quote = The university straddles Interstate 81, an outlet to several major East Coast cities. }}</ref> It parallels its older counterpart, [[U.S. Route 11|US 11]], for its entire length in Virginia.<ref name="Charles Harbaugh 2015">{{cite book |first1 = Charles IV |last1 = Harbaugh |first2 = Jeff |last2 = Pennington |title = Middletown |location = Charleston, SC |publisher = Arcadia Publishing |series = Images of America |year = 2015 |isbn = 978-1-4671-2242-9 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ooWtBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA10 |access-date = February 26, 2018 |via = Google Books |page = 10 }}</ref>
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