Georgia State Route 87

State Route 87 Business
State Route 87 Business
Location	Cochran
Length	4.1 mi (6.6 km)

State Route 87 Connector
State Route 87 Connector
Location	Eastman
Length	2.1 mi (3.4 km)

US 280 / SR 30 west of Rhine
US 280 / SR 30 west of Rhine
	US 341 / SR 27 in Eastman; US 23 from Eastman to Macon; US 129 Alt. from Cochran to Macon; I-16 in Smithsonia; US 80 from East Macon to Macon; SR 540 in Macon; US 23 from Macon to Flovilla; I-75 near Macon;
North end	US 23 / SR 42 in Flovilla
Location
Country	United States
State	Georgia
Counties	Laurens, Treutlen, Emanuel, Toombs
Highway system
	Georgia State Highway System; Interstate; US; State; ; Special;

Georgia State Route 87 (SR 87) is a 107-mile-long (172 km)

state highway that travels south-to-north through portions of Dodge, Bleckley, Twiggs, Bibb, Monroe, and Butts counties in the historic southern and central parts of the U.S. state of Georgia. The highway connects the Eastman area and the southwestern part of Dodge County with Flovilla, via Cochran and the Macon metropolitan area. The highway is largely, but not entirely, concurrent with U.S. Route 23

(US 23) and serves local traffic.

A brief portion, from

Interstate Highway that currently exists completely within Central Texas and is proposed to be extended to Augusta

.

Route description

SR 87 begins at

Sugar Creek then approaches US 341, just as it enters the city limits of Eastman, where the street name changes to Griffin Avenue. The routes pass by a Wal-Mart SuperCenter off the northeast corner with US 341 and then curves to the northeast. One notable site that it passes along the way is the Dodge County Hospital^[2]

and Central Baptist Church.

At Oak Street, SR 87 and SR 117 turn left at

US 129 Alt./SR 112 concurrency. From that point, it becomes a four-lane undivided highway through the rest of the county and for the next 13 miles (21 km). North of the Cochran area, in Royal

, SR 112 leaves to the northeast across from Coley Station Road.

The road remains an undivided four-lane highway through the

Georgia State Route 361

) and Arkwright Road, where a traffic circle is currently proposed. This right-of-way shows up at random moments even as it runs through its last miles within Bibb County.

SR 87/US 23 briefly curves straight north and enters Monroe County between Wesleyan Drive and Trey Terrace, north of the Brickyard Golf Club.^[4] Most of the surroundings along this segment are of the pine forests of Central Georgia. After the intersection with Pate Road and the bridge over Tobler Creek it widens to three lanes only to narrow back down to two lanes once it passes between two gravel mines owned by Vulcan Materials Company. Long after only two intersections with local roads, the routes encounter a blinker light four-way stop intersection with Georgia State Route 18 (Dames Ferry Road) that is in the process of being transformed into a traffic circle as of this writing. Roughly 0.5-mile-long (0.80 km) later, it makes a slight curve to the northwest and then runs along the east bank of Lake Juliette, although most of the lake is hidden from the road with pine trees. A park owned by Georgia Power called the "Dames Ferry Public Use Area at Lake Juliette" can also be spotted. After running under a railroad bridge, it encounters the entrance to the Plant Scherer Steam Power Plant. Later it passes by a manufacturing company specializing in erosion control products called ErosionTech,^[5] which is a sure sign the road is about to run through the western edges of Juliette. At the 4-way stop intersection with the road for which the community was named, which is also a blinker-light intersection, a local convenience store can be found on the northwest corner, and the southwest corner has a homemade sign leading to the "Whistle Stop Café," the site of the filming of the 1991 movie "Fried Green Tomatoes." North of there, the road has few landmarks other than the Juliette Baptist Church, and the Elbert L. Jackson Memorial Bridge over the Towaliga River. Practically every other intersection in this segment is a dead end street, until it reaches another blinker-light intersection with a four-way stop at Georgia State Route 83. Just after the gas station on the northeast corner of this intersection is a local street named Lower Martin Road, and further up, the intersection with another dirt road named Berner Loop, closely followed by Martin Road on the opposite side. The culvert over Lee Creek is barely visible, as are the driveways to an antenna and one common driveway nearby. These are what passes for landmarks before SR 87 intersects Watson and Mount Pleasant Church Roads (Monroe CR 88), and then just 200 feet away Lassiter Road.^[6]

The bridge over Big Sandy Creek is where SR 87 enters Butts County, and after running beneath a power line right-of-way, the segment runs through forestland below ground level, cut like a sunken trace. Very few intersections and residencies exist after this segment. The road enters the Flovilla City Limits just south of the first intersection of Beaty Circle and Floyd Street. An abandoned section of Lamar Street branches off to the northeast before the intersection with Lee Street which leads to the local post office. The next intersection that follows is the second intersection with Beaty Circle and Beaty Street which is also a blinker-light intersection. US 23/SR 87 becomes a divided highway again before the intersection with Higgins Road, but instantly approaches an at-grade interchange with Georgia State Route 42. Georgia State Route 87 terminates at this intersection, while SR 42 replaces it as the overlap with US 23 along the same trajectory until the two routes reach northeastern Atlanta.

The portion of SR 87 from SR 87 Conn. in East Macon to SR 247 in Macon is part of the National Highway System, a system of routes determined to be the most important for the nation's economy, mobility, and defense.^[7]^[8]

Major intersections

County	Location	mi	km	Destinations	Notes
US 280 / SR 30 (Rhine–Abbeville Highway) / Adam Springs Road south – Abbeville, McRae	Southern terminus of SR 87
				SR 230 north – Hawkinsville	Southern terminus of SR 230
				SR 117 south (Rhine Highway) – Rhine	Southern end of SR 117 concurrency
	US 341 / SR 27 (Golden Isles Parkway) – McRae, Hawkinsville
				SR 27 Bus. south (Oak Street) / Griffin Street north – McRae	Southern end of US 23 and US 341 Bus./SR 27 Bus. concurrencies; Griffin Street continues past this intersection.
				SR 27 Bus. north / SR 46 / SR 117 north (5th Avenue) – Cadwell, Soperton, Middle Georgia State University , Recreation Dept., Farmer's Market	Northern end of US 341 Bus./SR 27 Bus. and SR 117 concurrencies
				SR 87 Conn. south	Northern terminus of SR 87 Conn
	Empire			SR 257 north (Empire–Chester Highway) – Chester	Southern end of SR 257 concurrency
Bleckley	Frazier			SR 257 west / West Chicken Road east – Hawkinsville	Northern end of SR 257 concurrency; western terminus of West Chicken Road
				SR 87 Bus. north – Cochran	Southern terminus of US 23 Bus./SR 87 Bus.
				SR 126 – Cochran, Chester
				SR 26 (Dykes Street) – Cochran, Dublin	Provides access to Bleckley Memorial Hospital
				SR 87 Bus. south / SR 112 north – Cochran	Southern end of US 129 Alt. and SR 112 concurrencies
				SR 112 north / Coley Station Road south – Cary, Allentown, Ocmulgee Public Fishing Area	Northern end of SR 112 concurrency; northern terminus of Coley Station Road
I-16 – Fort Valley, Jeffersonville
	Savage Creek			Hardy Durham Faulk Sr. Memorial Bridge
	Flat Creek			Lafayette O'Neal Faulk Memorial Bridge
SR 404) – Macon, Savannah	I-16 exit 6
	SR 87 Conn. north (Ocmulgee East Boulevard) / Riggins Mill Road east – Jeffersonville	Southern terminus of SR 87 Conn.; western terminus of Riggins Mill Road
				SR 540 east (Fall Line Freeway) – Jeffersonville	Southern end of US 80, SR 19, and SR 540 concurrencies
	US 129 Alt. north / SR 19 north (Emery Highway)	Northern end of US 23, US 129 Alt., and SR 19 concurrencies
				SR 540 west (Fall Line Freeway) – Atlanta, Savannah	Northern end of SR 540 concurrency; I-16 exit 2; Phil Walden Memorial Interchange
				Otis Redding Memorial Bridge^[9] over the Ocmulgee River
				US 80 west / US 129 south / SR 11 south (Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard south) / Riverside Drive east	Northern end of US 80 concurrency; southern end of US 129/SR 11 concurrency
				SR 22 (2nd Street)	No access from US 129/SR 11/SR 87 to SR 22 or from SR 22 east to US 129/SR 11/SR 87; interchange
				US 23 south / US 129 north / SR 11 north / SR 19 / SR 49 (Spring Street) – Gray, Milledgeville, Cochran	Northern end of US 129/SR 11 concurrency; southern end of US 23 concurrency
				SR 247 south (Pierce Avenue) / Forest Ridge Drive west to I-75 north – Warner Robins, Perry, Atlanta Amerson River Park	Northern terminus of SR 247; eastern terminus of Forest Ridge Drive
				Tom Hill Sr. Boulevard south / Arkwright Road north to I-75	Northern terminus of Tom Hill Sr. Boulevard; southern terminus of Arkwright Road
				SR 401) – Macon, Atlanta	I-75 exit 171
				New Forsyth Road west	Eastern terminus of New Forstyth Road; interchange
				Bass Road west / Arkwright Road south	Eastern terminus of Bass Road; northern terminus of Arkwright Road; SR 361 south.
Monroe				SR 18 – Forsyth, Gray	Roundabout
	Towaliga River			Elbert L. Jackson Memorial Bridge
				SR 83 – Forsyth, Monticello
Butts	Flovilla	107	172	US 23 north / SR 42 – Jackson, Atlanta, Indian Springs, Forsyth, Indian Springs State Park	Northern terminus; US 23 continues along SR 42 concurrency
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus Incomplete access

Special routes

Eastman connector route

State Route 87 Connector (SR 87 Conn.) is a 2.1-mile-long (3.4 km)

US 319/SR 27

west of Eastman.

It is a four-lane divided highway designed to provide easy access for drivers on US 23 and SR 87 to US 341/SR 27 in order to bypass Eastman since US 23 and SR 87 pass through the center of Eastman while US 341/SR 27 skirts around Eastman to the south. SR 87 intersects US 341/SR 27 south of downtown Eastman while US 23 begins a concurrency with US 341/SR 27 east of Eastman.

The entire route is in Eastman, Dodge County.

mi^[10]	km	Destinations	Notes
0.0	0.0	US 23 / SR 87 – Cochran, Eastman	Northern terminus.
2.1	3.4	US 319 / SR 27 – Hawkinsville, Eastman	Southern terminus.
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

Cochran business loop

State Route 87 Business (SR 87 Bus.) is a 4.1-mile (6.6 km) business route of SR 87 that travels through downtown Cochran. It is completely concurrent with U.S. Route 23 Business (US 23 Bus.).

East Macon connector route

State Route 87 Connector

Location	East Macon
Length	0.2 mi^[12] (320 m)

State Route 87 Connector (SR 87 Conn.) is a 0.2-mile-long (0.32 km)

SR 540

(Emery Road west / Jeffersonville Road east). US 80/SR 19/SR 540 are also signed as Kenneth W. Birdsong Highway east of this intersection.

Though only a two-lane undivided road, the connector is designed to provide easy access for north to eastbound drivers and west to southbound drivers between US 23/US 129 Alt./SR 87 and US 80/SR 19/SR 540, avoiding the fork in the road between Emery Road and Emery Highway, where they split just to the west of the connector.

The entire route is in East Macon, Bibb County.

mi^[12]	km	Destinations	Notes
0.0	0.0	I-16 – Macon	Southern terminus of SR 87 Conn. western terminus of Riggins Mill Road; US 23/US 129 Alt./SR 87 and SR 87 Conn. share the Ocmulgee East Boulevard name.
0.2	0.32	SR 540 (Fall Line Freeway) – Macon, Jeffersonville	Northern terminus; roadway continues as a northern segment of Jeffersonville Road.
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

^ Google (December 4, 2019). "Overview map of SR 87" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
^ "Dodge County Hospital > Home".
^ "georgia campground - RV park - wifi - pool - 50 amp - pull-thru".
^ "Brickyard Golf Club".
^ "et_header".
^ "Google Maps".
^ National Highway System: Georgia (PDF) (Map). Federal Highway Administration. May 8, 2019. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
^ National Highway System: Macon, GA (PDF) (Map). Federal Highway Administration. May 9, 2019. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
^ "African American Heritage". Macon-Bibb County Convention & Visitors Bureau. Retrieved October 13, 2011.
^ ^a ^b Google (December 5, 2019). "Overview map of SR 87 Conn" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved December 5, 2019.
^ Google (December 5, 2019). "Overview map of US 23 Bus./SR 87 Bus" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved December 5, 2019.
^ ^a ^b Google (December 5, 2019). "Overview map of SR 87 Conn" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved December 5, 2019.

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[Google-1] Google (December 4, 2019). "Overview map of SR 87" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved December 4, 2019.

[2] "Dodge County Hospital > Home".

[3] "georgia campground - RV park - wifi - pool - 50 amp - pull-thru".

[4] "Brickyard Golf Club".

[5] "et_header".

[6] "Google Maps".

[NHS_Georgia-7] National Highway System: Georgia (PDF) (Map). Federal Highway Administration. May 8, 2019. Retrieved December 4, 2019.

[NHS_Macon-8] National Highway System: Macon, GA (PDF) (Map). Federal Highway Administration. May 9, 2019. Retrieved December 4, 2019.

[9] "African American Heritage". Macon-Bibb County Convention & Visitors Bureau. Retrieved October 13, 2011.

[Google_Eastman_Conn-10] Google (December 5, 2019). "Overview map of SR 87 Conn" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved December 5, 2019.

[11] Google (December 5, 2019). "Overview map of US 23 Bus./SR 87 Bus" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved December 5, 2019.

[Google_EastMacon_Conn-12] Google (December 5, 2019). "Overview map of SR 87 Conn" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved December 5, 2019.

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