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| Maintained by Georgia DOT | ||||
| Length: | 112.03 mi[1] (180.29 km) | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end: | I-95 at Florida state line | |||
| US 17 / US 82 near Brunswick US 25 / US 341 near Brunswick I-16 in Pooler US 80 in Pooler |
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| North end: | I-95 at South Carolina state line | |||
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Main route of the Interstate Highway System Georgia State Routes
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Interstate 95, the main Interstate Highway on the east coast of the United States, serves the Atlantic coast of Georgia. It begins at the St. Marys River at the Florida state line north of Jacksonville and heads north past the border of South Carolina at the Savannah River. Interstate 95 in Georgia is designated — but not signed — as State Route 405.
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All of Interstate 95 in Georgia has at least three lanes in each direction, except in the Brunswick Area where it has four lanes in each direction. From northern Florida to west of Savannah, Interstate 95 travels along the US 17 corridor, passing near or through marshlands, and is close to the Atlantic coastline.
The State Welcome Centers on both ends of I-95 are integrated with other interchanges. The northbound Welcome Center is built into the northbound off-ramp with Exit 1, while the on-ramp from here runs under a bridge beneath the same off-ramp before leading back onto northbound I-95. The southbound Welcome Center can be found just after the off-ramp for first southbound truck weighing center, only for both facilities to share an on ramp back to southbound I-95. Other rest areas, weigh stations, and visitors centers operate independently with no access to any other facilities or destinations.
I-95 intersects Interstate 16 near Savannah (Exit 99 A & B). Ramps to and from the eastbound lanes of I-16 feature barrier gates to prevent traffic from entering I-16 in the wrong direction during contraflow lane reversal for hurricane evacuations.
The only auxiliary route for I-95 in Georgia is a Business Loop in Darien. Another Business Loop used to exist for Brunswick however.
In 1998, the Georgia State Senate passed a resolution to designate the portion of Interstate 95 between the Ogeechee River (Bryan County, Georgia-Chatham County, Georgia border) north to the Savannah River (Effingham County, Georgia-Jasper County, South Carolina border) in the Greater Savannah Area as the Tom P. Coleman Highway, in honor of Tom Coleman, a Democrat who served as State Senator from 1981 to 1995.[2]
Until 2000, the state of Georgia used the sequential interchange numbering system on all of its Interstate Highways. The first exit on each highway would begin with the number "1" and increase numerically with each exit. In 2000, the Georgia Department of Transportation switched to a mileage-based exit system, in which the exit number corresponded to the nearest milepost.[3][4]
Construction to widen I-95 from two to three lanes started with the Chatham County segment in 1993, with the other county segments done in phases, with the project completed throughout Georgia on December 10, 2010.
| County | Location | Mile | Exit | Destinations | Notes | ||
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| Florida–Georgia state line |
St. Mary's River | ||||||
| Camden |
Kingsland | 1 | St. Mary's Road – St. Mary's | Northbound Traffic can access the Georgia Welcome Center using Exit 1 | |||
| 3 | SR 40 (East King Avenue) – Kingsland, St. Mary's | ||||||
| Woodbine | 6 | Martin Luther King Boulevard | |||||
| 7 | Harriet's Bluff Road | ||||||
| 14 | SR 25 – Woodbine | ||||||
| 22 | Horse Stamp Church Road | Under construction[5] | |||||
| Waverly | 26 | Dover Bluff Road | |||||
| Glynn |
Brunswick | 29 | US 17 / US 82 / SR 520 / SR 303 | ||||
| 36 | US 25 (New Jesup Highway) / US 341 / SR 27 – Jesup, Brunswick | Signed as exits 36A (south) and 36B (north) | |||||
| 38 | SR 25 Spur (Golden Isles Parkway) – Brunswick | ||||||
| 42 | I-95 Bus. south / SR 99 – Darien | ||||||
| McIntosh |
Darien | 49 | I-95 Bus. north / SR 251 – Darien | ||||
| Townsend | 58 | SR 57 / SR 99 – Eulonia | |||||
| Liberty |
Riceboro | 67 | US 17 (Ocean Highway) / SR 25 | ||||
| Midway | 76 | US 84 / SR 38 – Midway, Sunbury | |||||
| Bryan |
Richmond Hill | 87 | US 17 (Ocean Highway) / SR 25 | ||||
| 90 | SR 144 – Fort Stewart, Richmond Hill | Signed as Old Clyde Road northbound | |||||
| Chatham |
Savannah | 94 | SR 204 – Savannah, Pembroke | ||||
| Pooler | 99 | I-16 (Jim Gillis Historic Savannah Parkway) – Savannah, Macon | Signed as exits 99A (east) and 99B (west) | ||||
| 102 | US 80 / SR 26 – Pooler, Garden City | ||||||
| Savannah | 104 | Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport | |||||
| 106 | Jimmy Deloach Parkway | ||||||
| Port Wentworth | 109 | SR 21 / SR 30 – Port Wentworth | |||||
| Effingham |
No major junctions | ||||||
| Georgia–South Carolina state line |
Savannah River | ||||||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus • Closed/Former • Incomplete access • Unopened |
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| Interstate 95 Business | |
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| Location: | Darien, Georgia |
The Interstate 95 Business Loop for Darien, Georgia begins at Exit 42 on I-95, and runs concurrent with Georgia State Route 99. It then joins US 17(Ocean Highway) and follows the road north in a triple concurrency. After GA 99 separates to the northeast in downtown Darien, I-BL-95 turns northwest onto Georgia State Route 251 where it reunites with I-95 at it's northern terminus on Exit 49.
| Interstate 95 Business | |
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| Location: | Brunswick, Georgia |
The former Interstate 95 Business Loop for Brunswick, Georgia used to serve Brunswick and the Golden Isles between Exits 29 and 38 (former Exits 6 and 8). It was cosigned with US 17 and Georgia State Route 25 but no longer exists. The route returned to I-95 via Georgia 25 Connection.[6]
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| Previous state: Florida |
Georgia | Next state: South Carolina |
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