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State Road 85 (SR 85) is a north–south state highway that runs from US 98 in Fort Walton Beach, Florida north to State Route 55 at the Florida/Alabama state line. In its earliest inception, it was just a clayed road over graded sandy soil, and was known early in the twentieth century as the Georgia, Alabama and Florida Highway.
State Road 397 (SR 397) is a 3.199-mile-long (5.148 km) state highway in Okaloosa County, Florida, that runs from Florida State Road 85 on the northern border of Eglin Air Force Base to Florida State Road 85 in western Niceville via Valparaiso. SR 397 is split into two segments by Eglin AFB.
State Road 87 (SR 87; sometimes called the Navarre Beach Expressway, especially south of U.S. 90) [2] [3] is a 51.687-mile-long (83.182 km) north–south highway in the state of Florida that extends from U.S. Route 98 (US 98) to the Alabama state line where it becomes State Route 41.
in Pensacola: US 90 Alt. in Ferry Pass: 8.917 14.351 SR 292: SR-182 at Alabama state line US 29 in Brent: 23.632 38.032 partly carries US 98: SR 293: US 98 in Destin: SR 85 in Niceville: 15.4 24.8 SR 294: SR 295 in West Pensacola: US 98 in West Pensacola: 0.209 0.336 SR 295: NAS Pensacola: SR 289 in Pensacola: 7.992 12.862 SR 295 (spur)
It leads from U.S. Route 98 in downtown Fort Walton Beach to just east of State Road 85 at the Eglin AFB West Gate where its southern section terminates. The northern section begins at an intersection with State Road 4 in Baker, Florida north to the Alabama / Florida state line where Alabama State Route 137 begins upon crossing the Alabama ...
In 1950, the 280-car capacity Florida Drive-In Theatre, erected at a cost of ~$40,000, at the junction of Ferry Road and State Road 85, later Eglin Parkway, the main road between the air force base and Fort Walton, Florida, opened on Thursday, June 15, with an Esther Williams picture, "On an Island with You". [12]
The Florida Gulf and Atlantic Railroad (reporting mark FGA) is a shortline railroad owned and operated by RailUSA in the Florida Panhandle.The line consists of 430 miles (692 km) of track: a main line from Baldwin, Florida (just west of Jacksonville), through Tallahassee to Pensacola, as well as a branch from Tallahassee north to Attapulgus, Georgia.
Major bodies of water including Santa Rosa Sound, Pensacola Bay and East Bay strongly influence the housing and life style of citizens in the southern part of the county. This fast-growing region serves primarily as "bedroom communities" for Pensacola to the west and Hurlburt Field, Fort Walton Beach, and Eglin Air Force Base to the east.