Just as I-75 did with I-10 in Columbia County, I-10's interchange with I-295 uses single ramps leading to both directions on I-295 with east-to-north and south-to-west flyover ramps leading to the median of I-295. The road widens to six lanes again at the interchange with the First Coast Expressway. The sole means of leaving and reentering the highway in this section is at a pair of rest areas, the easternmost rest areas along I-10. Like at US 29 in Escambia County, the median for I-10 widens in the vicinity of I-75 at exits 296A and 296B in order to accommodate flyover on-ramps that enter from the left sides of the road.Ī 21-mile-long (34 km) segment between exits 303 and 324 contains no interchanges because it passes through a portion of Osceola National Forest. East of the bridge over the Ochlockonee River and the rest areas that follow, I-10 widens from four to six lanes and remains that way until after the interchange with SR 61 and US 319. Johnson Bridge, over the Apalachicola River. The road crosses the border between the Central and Eastern time zones at the long Dewey M. After that bridge, it has two more interchanges with a pair of rest areas in between before crossing the Santa Rosa– Okaloosa county line. The highway leaves the county at the Escambia Bay Bridge and has two interchanges within Santa Rosa County before crossing another bridge over the Blackwater River. At exit 12, I-10 serves as the northern terminus of I-110, a spur route to central Pensacola. On the border between Brent and Ensley, the median approaching exits 10A and 10B becomes unexpectedly wide in order to accommodate flyover on-ramps from US 29 that enter the left sides of the road. Florida State Road 297 (SR 297, southbound) at exit 7A, gives access to the Pensacola Naval Air Station and the National Museum of Naval Aviation. I-10 crosses into Florida at Alabama state line at the Perdido River, just west of Pensacola, in Escambia County. I-10 runs through some of the least populated areas of the state. The Interstate runs roughly parallel to US Highway 90 (US 90) (which intersects I-10 at five different points along its route), but is a more direct route, bypassing the central cores of many cities. The highway runs east from the Alabama border, traveling through the Panhandle of Florida, serving the major cities of Pensacola, Tallahassee, Lake City, ending at Jacksonville, and carries the hidden Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) designation of State Road 8 ( SR 8).Įastbound view of I-10 near Lake City and I-75 It is also the eastern end of one of three coast-to-coast Interstates, along with I-80 and I-90. Interstate 10 ( I-10) runs for 362 miles (583 km) in Florida as the easternmost section of an east–west Interstate Highway in the southern United States. Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, Holmes, Washington, Jackson, Gadsden, Leon, Jefferson, Madison, Suwannee, Columbia, Baker, Nassau, Duval
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