US 27 in Georgia

According to transporthint, US 27 is a US Highway in the US state of Georgia. The road forms a north-south route in the west of the state, between the Florida border at Amsterdam via Columbus and Rome to the Tennessee border at Rossville. The route is 566 kilometers long and has the administrative number SR-1.

Travel directions

Southern Georgia

At Amsterdam the US 27 crosses the border with Georgia in Florida . The road then enters from Florida ‘s capital, Tallahassee. The road has 2×2 lanes here, but no grade-separated intersections. The road heads northwest through wooded areas to Bainbridge, a regional town where it intersects US 84, the east-west axis from Dothan to Valdosta. A bypass is designed as a highway around Bainbridge. The road then enters a more open area, still having 2×2 lanes of traffic as it heads north through the southwest of the state. You pass the town of Blakely, and at Cuthbert you cross the US 82, the road from Montgomery inAlabama to Albany. Around Cuthbert there is a bypass for north-south traffic, so US 27. US 27 has one lane in each direction between Blakely and Cuthbert, north of Cuthbert there are again 2×2. The area is therefore densely forested again and people continue north through a quiet area. The only town of any importance is Lumpkin, which has a ring road. At Cusseta, US 280 merges, coming from Savannah. The road then runs through the military grounds of Fort Benning to the northwest, reaching the city of Columbus, which has a population of 186,000. Interstate 185 intersects here, the highway connecting the city to the Interstate network in the form of Interstate 85 to the north.

In Columbus, the road has 6 lanes and a commercial strip runs along it. The road then continues through downtown Columbus, where US 280 turns west toward Opelika and Birmingham in Alabama, while also intersecting US 80, the main road from Montgomery to Savannah. US 27 is one of the major underlying roads in Columbus. The ALT US 27 then turns off to end again at Carrollton, 175 kilometers north. US 27 itself runs through the north of the city and then crosses Interstate 185 again. You also cross the US 80 again, which here forms a northern bypass as a highway. Then they leave the city.

Northern Georgia

After Columbus, you come through densely wooded area again and the road parallels I-185 to the north. The road here has one lane in each direction because the highway handles most of the traffic. You only pass through a few villages. A little way north of Columbus, it crosses I-185 for the last time, after which the road crosses Interstate 85 at the town of La Grange, the highway from Montgomery in Alabama to Atlanta. In La Grange one also crosses the US 29, the road that parallels I-85 northeast. North of La Grange, the road crosses West Point Lake and again has 2×2 lanes. It then takes another 80 kilometers before passing another town of interest, Carrollton, where the ALT US 27 rejoins after an alternative parallel route slightly to the east. A little further on, at the village of Bremen, one crosses Interstate 20, the highway from Birmingham to Atlanta. It also crosses US 78, which runs parallel to I-20.

Further north, the area is still quite heavily wooded and the road has 2×2 lanes as usual. At Cedartown you cross US 278, a main road from Atlanta to Gadsden. One then enters a somewhat hillier area, these are the long ridges of the Appalachian Mountains. One then reaches the regional town of Rome, which has 35,000 inhabitants. Here you cross US 411, the road from Cartersville to Gadsden. There is also a ring road around Rome. One then really goes into the hills and has to pass a number of steep ridges. One then passes through the Chattahoochee National Forest. The road runs in 2×2 lanes along La Fayette, then enters the suburban area of ​​Chattanooga, a larger city in southernTennessee. At Rossville, the road crosses the border into Tennessee, then US 27 in Tennessee continues north through Chattanooga as a highway.

History

According to travelationary, US 27 was one of the original US Highways of 1926, but did not run through Georgia at the time. The Georgia route was established in 1934 when the southern terminus was changed from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Tallahassee, Florida.

A US 27 Alternate has also been created in mid-Georgia, between Carrollton and Columbus, US 27 runs close to the Alabama border, while US 27 Alternate runs further east through Newnan and Warm Springs.

Over the years, the entire US 27 has been upgraded to 4 lanes. This was also necessary because no Interstate Highway was built parallel to US 27, Interstate 75 runs considerably further east. The first 4-lane section was Columbus’ southern approach road, which was widened to 2×2 lanes as early as the 1950s.

Northern Georgia

In the early 1960s, the northernmost section near the Tennessee border was widened to 2×2 lanes in the southern suburbs of Chattanooga. In the first half of the 1970s, the northern and southern approach roads from Rome were widened to 2×2 lanes. In the late 1980s, in northern Georgia, the 2×2 section was extended further south from the Chattanooga region, by 1989 to Lafayette, with a Lafayette diversion in the early 1990s. During the 1990s, the entire route between Lafayette and Rome was widened to 2×2 lanes.

South of Rome, a diversion was realized at Cedartown in the early 1990s. The road between Bremen and Carrollton was also widened to 2×2 lanes in the early 1990s, including a detour from Bremen. In the second half of the 1990s to around 2000, the section from Cedartown to Bremen was widened to 2×2 lanes. In the early to mid-2000s, US 27 was widened further south to 2×2 lanes from Carrollton to La Grange, completed by about 2007.

Southern Georgia

In the mid-1960s, the 4-lane section was built south from Columbus to Cusseta, the point where US 27 and US 280 split. The grade-separated bypass of Bainbridge was also opened in the early 1960s. Between 1970 and 1979, I-185 was built parallel to US 27 between Columbus and La Grange, so this section is single-lane. It was not until the early 1990s that upgrades were made to US 27 in southern Georgia, initially from Bainbridge to the north. In the early 1990s, Blakely was also diverted. After 2000, US 27 in southern Georgia was extensively widened to 2×2 lanes, spanning nearly 200 miles between Cusseta and the Florida border. In 2017, the final portion of US 27 south of Cuthbert in Randolph County was widened to 2×2 lanes.divided highway from Florida to Indiana.

Traffic intensities

The road has both quiet and busier parts. About half of the route has intensities between 10,000 and 20,000 vehicles, and another half has between 3,000 and 10,000 vehicles per day. Some busier points are measured in towns.