Interstate 520

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Interstate 520 (abbreviated I-520) partly encircles Augusta, Georgia. I-520 is also known as Bobby Jones Expressway and unsigned State Route 415. It begins at Interstate 20 northwest of the city, and hooks around to the south and then east. Its current terminus is at U.S. Route 1 in North Augusta, South Carolina.

Current plans call for the freeway to end back at Interstate 20 somewhere near the current interchange with U.S. Highway 25 at Exit 5 in South Carolina. The highway becomes known as the Palmetto Parkway once it crosses east into South Carolina. I-20 runs north of the city, with Aiken, South Carolina across the Savannah River to the east side.

In Georgia, it is named for golfer Bobby Jones, in South Carolina it is named for the palmetto, the state tree.

I-520 loses its state route designation in South Carolina, as it does not co-number its interstates with state highway numbers.

[edit] Exit list

The following exits are listed west to east with the mile-log numbering used since 2000 above, and the actual exit numbers originally used below.

County # Old Destinations Notes
(Bobby Jones Expressway) becomes (unsigned )
Richmond 1A 1A
Interstate 20 West - Atlanta
Unsigned GA 402
1B 1B
Interstate 20 East - Columbia, SC
Unsigned GA 402
1C 2 Wheeler Road - Augusta
2 3 Wrightsboro Road - Augusta Daniel Field Airport
3A 4A
US 78/US 278/GA 10 West (Gordon Highway) - Augusta
Fort Gordon
3B 4B
US 78/US 278/GA 10 East (Gordon Highway) - Augusta
5A 5A
US 1/GA 4 South (Deans Bridge Road) - Augusta, Wrens
5B 5B
US 1/GA 4 North (Deans Bridge Road) - Augusta
7 6 US 25/GA 121 (Windsor Spring Road/Peach Orchard Road) - Augusta, Waynesboro
9 7 GA 56 (Mike Padgett Highway) - Augusta
10 8 GA 56 Spur (Doug Barnard Parkway) - Augusta Augusta Regional Airport at Bush Field
16 9 GA 28 (Sandbar Ferry Road/Laney-Walker Boulevard) - Augusta
Georgia-South Carolina border
becomes
Aiken 17 n/a US 1 (Jefferson Davis Highway) - Aiken, SC; North Augusta, SC Eastern terminus
Auxiliary routes of Interstate 20
Current and Future (F) Former
I-220 Louisiana - Mississippi
I-420 Georgia - Louisiana
I-520 Georgia-South Carolina
I-820 Texas