U.S. Route 301
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Image:US301.png U.S. Route 301 is a spur of U.S. Route 1. It currently runs 1,099 miles (1,769 km) from Glasgow, Delaware at U.S. Route 40 to Sarasota, Florida. It passes through the states of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. It goes through the cities of Annapolis, Maryland, Richmond, Virginia, Petersburg, Virginia, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Fayetteville, North Carolina, Florence, South Carolina, Statesboro, Georgia, Ocala, Florida, Zephyrhills, Florida, Tampa, Florida, Brandon, Florida, and Sarasota, Florida.
US 301 has a number of concurrencies along its route. It is multiplexed with U.S. Route 50 from Bowie, Maryland to Queenstown, Maryland, with secret Interstate 595 from Bowie, Maryland to Annapolis, Maryland, and Maryland State Highway 5 in Waldorf, Maryland among others.
US 301 formerly had its terminus in Baltimore, Maryland. It followed the alignment of the current Maryland State Highway 3, portions of the Baltimore Beltway, and Maryland State Highway 648. Route 301 ended in Southwestern Baltimore on Monroe Street at the intersection with U.S. 1. Route 3 was supplanted north of Millersville by Interstate 97.[1]
Major bridges
U.S. Highway 301 crosses the Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. It crosses the Potomac River between Maryland and Virginia on the Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge. It crosses the James River in Richmond, Virginia on the Robert E. Lee Memorial Bridge, and the Appomattox River between Colonial Heights and Petersburg, Virginia on the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Bridge.