Interstate 22

The completed systems interchange joining Interstate 22 and I-65 at North Birmingham. - 10/08/2016

Interstate 22 overlays U.S. 78 from Tremont, Mississippi to Graysville across northwestern Alabama. Following a rural route, I-22 connects the cities of Hamilton, Guin, Winfield, Carbon Hill and Jasper with the north Birmingham suburbs and Interstate 65 at Fultondale. The scenic freeway is a part of a regional link between Birmingham and Memphis, Tennessee.

Interstate 22 Alabama Guides

East

Hamilton to Winfield - 59 photos

Jasper to Dora - 54 photos

Adamsville to Birmingham - 31 photos

West

Birmingham to Adamsville - 29 photos

Dora to Jasper - 50 photos

Winfield to Hamilton - 48 photos

U.S. 78 between Memphis, Tennessee and Birmingham, Alabama is Appalachian Regional Development Corridor X. Planning for Corridor X started in 1978, with the first funding in place by 1983.³ Signs recognizing the route a Future Interstate highway were approved in April 2005.⁴

26 miles of Interstate 22 opened to traffic on November 14, 2007. Included were sections between Industrial Parkway (Exit 65) in Jasper and U.S. 78 at Graysville (Exit 85), and from Exit 85 to Cherry Avenue (Exit 91)¹. The portion to Cherry Avenue previously opened to local traffic in early June 2007.² Those stretches were preceded by the completion of 20 miles of freeway, between SR 129 (Exit 30) and SR 118 west of Jasper, on November 22, 2005.³

A 2.5 mile extension of I-22 east from Cherry Avenue to Coalburg Road opened to traffic on December 9, 2009. Construction on the final link with Interstate 65 was underway in August 2010, and the $168.6 million contract was scheduled to run four years.⁵

This view looked south from the 47th Avenue overpass during construction of the directional T interchange joining I-22 and I-65. - 10/20/2012

Initially planned for completion on October 15, 2014, several delays hampered construction on the easternmost 2.5 miles of I-22. The project was pushed back to August 2015, and again into the following year. The interchange with Interstate 65 finally debuted to motorists on June 20, 2016.

scenes

Hillcrest Road (CR 65) stems 0.72 miles south from Cherry Avenue to Interstate 22 in east Graysville.

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I-22 continues 6.98 miles east from CR 65 (Hillcrest Road) to the systems interchange with Interstate 65.

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Hillcrest Road (CR 65) enters the city of Graysville just ahead of the diamond interchange (Exit 89) with Interstate 22.

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Interstate 22 east runs across the north side of the Birmingham city limits to I-65 near the North Birmingham community.

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U.S. 78 is cosigned with Interstate 22 east to I-65. U.S. 78 also remains southeast from I-22 at Graysville to I-59/20 at the East Thomas neighborhood in Birmingham.

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Connect with:

Interstate 65

U.S. 43

U.S. 78

State Route 129

Page Updated Thursday February 26, 2026.