Florida State Road 79


State Road 79 is a north-south highway in the panhandle of Florida. It is a popular route for tourists to and from the Panama City Beach area. The route connects with Alabama State Route 167 at the Alabama-Florida border and runs to its southern terminus at State Road 30 in Panama City Beach, Florida. Currently, the highway is being expanded to four lanes and extended north to connect to Interstate 10. SR 79 is a major hurricane evacuation route from the coastal area. It is one of few designated routes northward between Pensacola and Panama City.

History

As of June 1, 2009, the route between US 98 at Panama City Beach and SR 20 at Ebro was being expanded to four lanes. A second bridge over the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway at West Bay has been completed and is now open making the four lane complete for about a stretch from US 98 northward to the intersection of SR 79 and SR 388 at West Bay. North of this completed stretch construction continues to a point just north of the Ebro Greyhound Racetrack. No construction has begun north of this point to the Alabama state line.

Major intersections