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The Fairfax County Parkway, numbered State Route 286 (SR 286, formerly SR 7100 [2]), is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia, acting as an expressway in Fairfax County with a mix of interchanges and signalized and unsignalized intersections.
Before construction on the Loudoun County Parkway started, SR 606 ended at the intersection with US 50. As of March 2010, SR 606 has been extended from US 50 to SR 620 (Braddock Road). The portion between SR 620 (Braddock Road) and SR 7 (Harry Byrd Hwy) has been designated part of the Loudoun County Parkway, and is a five-lane divided highway.
With the advent of the modern road system, Braddock Road changed. In the 1930s after the Virginia Secondary Road system was created [8] Braddock Road in Fairfax and Loudoun Counties was given the designation SR 620. In the 1960s I-66 was built coming through Centreville. [9]
The parkway meets SR 7 (Leesburg Pike) at an unnumbered SPUI interchange. Just north of there, the parkway terminates at an intersection with George Washington Boulevard, which serves the George Washington University Virginia Campus. The roadway continues as Riverside Parkway, which parallels SR 7 on its north side west towards Leesburg. [1]
SR 612 then turns southwest on Yates Ford Road at the Clifton / Fairfax Station border and travels through another residential area consisting of single-family homes. It ends at an intersection with SR 645 (Clifton Road) in Clifton. This portion of SR 612 was designated a Virginia Byway on May 3, 1997. [4]
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According to the Virginia Capital Trail Foundation, the trail generated $8.9 million in economic activity in fiscal year 2018–19, and in 2020 had 1.2 million visitors, an increase of 42% over 2019. [7] The only other multimodal path in Virginia to receive more visitors annually is the Virginia Beach oceanfront boardwalk. [8]
A map of Gulf Coast groups of Creek American Indians. Apalachee Parkway was named in 1957, after this newspaper sponsored a contest to name the newly constructed road.