Interstate 20 Main route of the Interstate Highway System
Maintained by Georgia DOT
Length:	201 mi[1] (323.48 km)
West end:	I-20 at Alabama state line
Major junctions:	I-285 in Atlanta I-75 / I-85 in Atlanta I-520 in Augusta
East end:	I-20 at South Carolina state line
Georgia State Routes < SR 401 SR 403 >

In Georgia, Interstate 20 runs from the Alabama border to the Savannah River, which the Georgia-South Carolina border straddles. It passes through the heavily congested Atlanta metropolitan area and exits the state at Augusta. The highway allows Georgians and various cargo to travel to various locations, including Columbia, South Carolina; Birmingham, Alabama; Jackson, Mississippi and Dallas, Texas.

I-20 is four lanes in much of the state. In the Atlanta metro area, the highway ranges from six lanes in the most outlying counties to 10 lanes in downtown Atlanta.

Several stretches of Interstate 20 are named for various people and reasons:

• From the Alabama state line to I-285 on the west side of Atlanta, I-20 is named the Tom Murphy Freeway, after the former speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives.^[2][3]
• Between both the west and east sides of The Perimeter (I-285), I-20 was named the Ralph David Abernathy Freeway in 1991 after the late civil rights activist.^[4]
• From I-285 in Dekalb County to U.S. Route 441 near Madison, I-20 is named the Purple Heart Highway for military veterans who either died or were injured in combat while in service on or after April 15, 1917.^[5]
• Between U.S. 441 and the South Carolina border, I-20 is named the Carl Sanders Highway after the former Georgia governor who was born in Augusta.^[6]

Like the rest of Georgia's interstates, I-20 has an unsigned state highway designation: State Route 402.

[edit] Exit list

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.^{[7] [8]}

County	Location	Exit #		Destinations	Notes
		Old	New
Haralson		1	5	SR 100 – Tallapoosa, Bowdon
		2	9	Waco Road
Carroll		3	11	US 27 – Bremen, Carrollton
		4	19	SR 113 – Carrollton, Temple
	Villa Rica	5	24	SR 61 / SR 101 – Carrollton, Villa Rica
Douglas		6	26	Liberty Road – Villa Rica
		7	30	Post Road
	Douglasville	8	34	SR 5 – Douglasville
		9	36	Chapel Hill Road
		10	37	SR 92 (Fairburn Road) – Douglasville
		11	41	Lee Road – Lithia Springs
		12	44	SR 6 (Thornton Road) – Austell
Cobb		13	46	Six Flags Drive, Riverside Parkway	Westbound is split into Exit 46A (Old Exit 13A — Riverside Parkway) and Exit 46B (Old Exit 13B — Six Flags Drive)
		13C	47	Six Flags Parkway	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance only
Fulton		14	49	SR 70 (Fulton Industrial Boulevard)
	Atlanta	15A-B	51A-B	I-285 – Macon, Montgomery, Chattanooga, Greenville
		16A-B	52A-B	SR 280 (Hamilton E. Holmes Drive)	Eastbound is signed Exit 52 (Old Exit 16).
		17	53	SR 139 (Martin Luther King Jr. Drive)
		18	54	Langhorn Street	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
		19	55A	Lowery Boulevard, West End
		20	55B	Atlanta University Center, Lee Street	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance only.
		21	56A	McDaniel Street	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
		22	56B	Windsor Street to Spring Street, Turner Field
		23	57	I-75 / I-85 – Macon, Montgomery, Chattanooga, Greenville
		24	58A	Capitol Avenue	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
		25	58B	Hill Street	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
		26	59A	Boulevard
		27	59B	Memorial Drive, Glenwood Avenue	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
		28A-B	60A-B	US 23 (Moreland Avenue)	Westbound exit is signed Exit 60 (Old Exit 28)
Dekalb
		29	61A	Maynard Terrace	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
		30	61B	SR 260 (Glenwood Avenue)
		31	62	Flat Shoals Road	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
		32	63	Gresham Road, Flat Shoals Road	Signed Gresham Road eastbound and Flat Shoals Road westbound
		33	65	SR 155 (Candler Road) – Decatur
		34	66	Columbia Drive	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
		35A-B	67A-B	I-285 – Macon, Chattanooga, Greenville	Eastbound is signed Exit 67 (Old Exit 35)
		36	68	Wesley Chapel Road to Spanfinger Road
		37	71	Panola Road
		38	74	Evans Mill Road, Lithonia Industrial Boulevard – Lithonia
		39	75	US 278 / SR 124 (Turner Hill Road)	West end of US 278 concurrency
Rockdale		40	78	Sigman Road
	Conyers	41	80	West Avenue – Conyers
		42	82	SR 20 / SR 138 – Conyers, Monroe
		43	84	SR 162 (Salem Road)
Newton		44	88	Almon Road – Porterdale
	Covington	45	90	US 278 east – Covington, Oxford
		45A	92	Alcovy Road
		46	93	SR 142 – Hazelbrand, Oxford, Covington
		47	98	SR 11 – Monroe, Monticello
		48	101	US 278
Morgan		49	105	Newborn Road – Newborn, Rutledge
		50	113	SR 83 – Madison, Monticello
		51	114	US 129 / US 441 – Madison, Eatonton
		52	121	Seven Islands Road – Buckhead
Greene		53	130	SR 44 (Lake Oconee Parkway) – Eatonton
	Siloam	54	138	SR 15 / SR 77 – Siloam, Union Point, Sparta, Greensboro
Taliaferro		55	148	SR 22 – Crawfordville, Sparta
Warren		56	154	US 278 – Warrenton, Washington
		57	160	Cadley Norwood Road – Norwood
		58	165	SR 80 – Camak
McDuffie		59	172	US 78 / SR 17 – Thomson, Washington
		60	175	SR 150
Columbia		61	183	US 221 – Harlem
		62	190	SR 388 – Grovetown
	Evans	63	194	SR 383 (Belair Road, Dyess Parkway) – Evans
Richmond	Augusta	63A	195	Wheeler Road
		64A-B	196A-B	I-520 / SR 232 (Bobby Jones Expressway)
			197	Walton Way Extension	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
		65	199	SR 28 (Washington Road) – Augusta
		66	200	SR 104 (River Watch Parkway) – Augusta

[edit] Auxiliary routes

Although the designation does not appear on shields, Georgia DOT refers to the highway as SR 402.

I-20 eastbound at I-520 interchange. Flyover ramp under construction for I-20 westbound to I-520 eastbound.

• Interstate 520, a freeway spur that goes around the western and southern sections of Augusta before crossing into South Carolina.

[edit] See also

U.S. Roads Portal

State of Georgia portal

• List of Interstate Highways

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Georgia @ SouthEastRoads.com - Interstate 20
• Georgia Navigator — Georgia DOT site with real-time traffic information; includes traffic cameras within metro Atlanta area
• I-20 Augusta Real-Time Traffic Information — Georgia DOT site with real-time traffic information for I-20/I-520 Augusta construction area
• Georgia DOT news and information about I-20/I-520 upgrades in Richmond and Columbia counties

Interstate 20
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Unbuilt expressways
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