Gate 10 & Woodlawn Area Guide

Where this area is, and why Gate 10 defines it

This is the western side of Clarksville, running out US-79 — Dover Road — toward Woodlawn. Woodlawn itself is unincorporated: no city limits, no downtown, a name on a stretch of road and the community around it.

Every other area in this series is defined by an interstate exit. This one is defined by a gate. Gate 10 sits at the southern end of Fort Campbell and runs twenty-four hours, and it is the reason anyone commutes to post from out here. Take the gate away and this is simply the rural west side of the county.

From the Clarksville side you reach it on Lafayette Road, which runs into 101st Airborne Division Road at the installation boundary. That is worth knowing by name. Gate 10's location is misreported often enough online that a search will send you to the wrong corner of post, and a wrong turn at a gate is not a cheap mistake on a first morning.

The numbers

Pulled from Google Maps in November 2026. Two numbers for each gate: a mid-morning run with the roads clear, and what a 7am weekday departure typically looks like.

Twelve minutes to Gate 10 is the whole argument for this area, and it only works if Gate 10 is your gate. The same house is nineteen minutes from Gate 4. Gate 7, where the visitor center is, runs more than double the Gate 10 time — it is not a realistic daily drive from here, and if that is where you report, this is not your side of town.

No other area in Clarksville swings this hard on which gate you use. Everywhere else the gates sit within a few minutes of each other. Out here the answer changes your commute by more than it changes between some entirely different parts of town. Confirm your gate before you look at houses on this side. It is the one question that decides whether this area is the best option available to you or the wrong one entirely.

The other number worth sitting with is the interstate. Twenty minutes to Exit 1 is the longest run to I-24 in this series. If anyone in the household drives toward Nashville with any regularity, that is a real cost, and it is the mirror image of what makes Exit 8 and Exit 11 work.

Schools

Among the zones in play out here are Northwest High School, New Providence Middle, and Woodlawn, Liberty and Minglewood elementaries — a sample rather than a complete list.

Woodlawn Elementary is out here with you. Most of the rest are not. Northwest High and New Providence Middle sit back toward town, which means a secondary school run that heads the opposite way from post every morning. That is an ordinary arrangement in a rural zone and it still catches people out, because they picture the schools being as close as the house feels.

The bus rule. Clarksville-Montgomery County has a Parent Responsibility Zone. If you live within one mile of your zoned elementary school, or within a mile and a half of your zoned middle or high school, there is no bus — you drive. It bites differently out here than in town: most addresses sit well outside the zone and do get a bus, but the ride can be long.

Zoning moves. CMCSS has schools planned through 2035. Being zoned to a school today is not a guarantee for a child entering kindergarten.

Verify by address before you write an offer. CMCSS publishes the authoritative lookup — InfoFinder i will tell you the zoned schools and the bus stop for a specific address. A listing's school field is not authoritative, and I have seen it wrong.

What the housing is like

Subdivisions out here include Hidden Springs, Fletchers Bend, Sycamore Hill, Liberty Park and Deer Hollow, among others.

But the thing that actually sets this side of town apart is how much of it is not in a subdivision at all. A great deal of property out here is land with a house on it. No HOA, no covenants, no common area, no developer.

That cuts both ways, and which way it cuts depends entirely on you. Nobody tells you what color to paint the door, how long the grass can get, or what you may park on your own property. Nobody tells the neighbor either. There is no association to call when something needs fixing, and the things a subdivision quietly takes care of — drainage, the road surface, what happens at the property line — become yours to deal with.

Buyers coming from a subdivision often do not realize how much of that they were getting until it is gone. Buyers who have had enough of HOAs come out here specifically to be rid of it. Both are reasonable. Work out which one you are before you start looking, because it is the difference between the right house and a long couple of years.

The same split runs through the utilities, which is what makes it more than a preference. Most of the subdivisions out here are on sewer. Most of what sits outside them is not — beyond the subdivisions, septic is the norm.

So the subdivision question at Woodlawn is really two questions arriving together. Inside one, you are likely getting sewer and likely getting an HOA. Outside one, you are likely on septic and likely free of covenants. They travel as a pair, which makes the decision cleaner than it first looks — but it also means the quiet, the acreage and the municipal sewer do not generally come in the same package. Work out which two you actually want.

If you are looking outside a subdivision, get the septic properly inspected rather than glanced at, find out where the drain field sits before you start planning a shop or an addition, and ask what it means for dividing the lot later if that is ever likely to matter.

One thing that surprises people: internet out here is not the problem they expect. CEMC fiber covers the area, with only rare exceptions. If you are moving from somewhere rural and bracing for satellite, you can stop.

Water is a different question from sewer, and the two get conflated constantly. Most of this area is on municipal water whether or not it is on sewer — wells are more of an outside-Montgomery-County thing. So a property out here on septic is still very likely on county water.

Who this side suits

• If you report to Gate 10. Twelve minutes, and nothing else in this series is close.
• If you want land and quiet and are prepared to drive for the rest of it.
• If your days do not involve the interstate. Twenty minutes to Exit 1 is the price out here.

It suits you less if you report to Gate 7 or Gate 4, if you commute toward Nashville, or if you want to be able to reach shops and restaurants without planning it.

FAQ

Where is Gate 10 at Fort Campbell? Gate 10 is at the southern end of the installation and is open twenty-four hours. From Clarksville you reach it on Lafayette Road, which runs into 101st Airborne Division Road at the boundary. It is the closest gate to the western side of Clarksville and to Woodlawn.

How far is Woodlawn from Fort Campbell? About twelve minutes to Gate 10 and nineteen to Gate 4. The gate you report to matters more here than anywhere else in Clarksville.

Is Woodlawn part of Clarksville? No. Woodlawn is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, west of Clarksville on US-79, and it has no city limits of its own.

What schools serve the Woodlawn and Gate 10 area? Northwest High School, New Providence Middle, and Woodlawn, Liberty and Minglewood elementaries are among the zones in play, though that is not a complete list. Verify your specific address with CMCSS.

Closing

Thinking about this side of town? Confirm your gate first — it is the difference between the shortest commute available to you and a drive you will resent by March. Tell me the gate and I can tell you whether to look out here at all.

Comparing areas? The Clarksville Area Guides index puts all eight side by side, with drive times to every gate in one table.

Jenn McMillion, REALTOR® | Make Clarksville Home | Southern Reserve Realty | (931) 801-5503