St. George Island Bridge

St. George Island Bridge

Coordinates	29°41′02″N 84°52′50″W / 29.683751°N 84.880468°W / 29.683751; -84.880468Coordinates: 29°41′02″N 84°52′50″W / 29.683751°N 84.880468°W / 29.683751; -84.880468
Carries	SR 300
Locale	Apalachicola to St. George Island, Franklin County, Florida
Maintained by	Florida Department of Transportation
Characteristics
Total length	4.1 miles (6.6 km)
History
Opened	February 27, 2004

The 4 mile (6.4 km) St. George Island Bridge (designated State Road 300 from end to end, plus approaches) was built in 2002 (completed in 2004) when the two original bridges (cut by an island in the middle) that led to St. George Island, a small resort town 10 miles (16 km) from Apalachicola, Florida were deemed unsafe due to their old age. The new bridge, by bypassing the middle island, became the 3rd longest bridge in Florida. The north end of SR 300 is at US 98 (SR 30) in Eastpoint. It was opened on February 27, 2004.^[1]

Initially, the bridge was designated State Road G1A by the Florida Department of Transportation while Gulf Beach Drive on the island east of the bridge was given the SR 300 designation. Later, the bridge and Gulf Beach Drive were both SR 300. More recently, Gulf Beach Drive lost its State Road designation, leaving only the St. George Island Bridge with the SR 300 designation. The eastern half of Gulf Beach Drive is now County Road 300.

"State Road G1A" was an analogue on the Gulf of Mexico to SR A1A on the Atlantic Ocean. It is one of two x00 routes to not follow the numbering system - the other is SR 800, a short connection over the Intracoastal Waterway in Boca Raton. All other x00 routes are major cross-state diagonals.

Major intersections

The entire route is in Franklin County.

Location	mi^[2]	km	Destinations
St. George Island	0.000	0.000	CR 300 east (Gulf Beach Drive) – St. George Island State Park
	0.582– 4.662	0.937– 7.503	St. George Island Bridge over St. George Sound (Gulf Intracoastal Waterway)
Eastpoint	5.579	8.979	US 98 (SR 30)
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

↑ Photo Gallery - St. George Island Bridge/030104
↑ FDOT straight line diagrams, accessed March 2014

Browse numbered routes
← SR A1A	G1A	SR 2 →
← SR 298	FL 300	US 301 →

Notable bridges and tunnels in Florida

Panhandle	Escambia Bay Garcon Point John Gorrie Mid-Bay Pensacola Bay St. George Island Trammell Victory

North	Acosta Bridge of Lions Main Street Buckman Dames Point Fuller Warren Hart Mathews Memorial Strauss Trunnion Thomas B. Manuel Blue Heron Flagler Memorial

West Central	Bayside Blackburn Point Bridge^‡ Clearwater Memorial Courtney Campbell Gandy Howard Frankland Pinellas Bayway Sunshine Skyway Treasure Island

East Central	A. Max Brewer Astor Bennett Bert Dosh Broadway Eau Gallie Granada Melbourne Merritt Island NASA Osteen Pineda Port Orange Roosevelt Sebastian Inlet Wabasso Merrill P. Barber Alma Lee Loy Whitehair

South	Broad Coral Springs^† Julia Tuttle John F. Kennedy Lehman MacArthur Rickenbacker Snow-Reed^‡ Venetian

Southwest	Boca Grande^‡ Bonita Beach Caloosahatchee Cape Coral Edison John Ringling Matanzas Pass Midpoint Sanibel S.S. Jolley

Keys	Bahia Honda Card Sound Jewfish Creek Long Key Overseas Highway Seven Mile

Tunnels	Henry E. Kinney Port of Miami

Ferries	Drayton Island Fort Gates Mayport

^† – Covered bridge ^‡ – Swing bridge See also: List of bridges in Florida

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St. George Island Bridge

Major intersections

See also

References