Business Loop I-85 North

A slip ramp (Exit 1) separates from Business Loop I-85 onto Falling Creek Road east to N Blackstock Road (Road 41) just beyond the split with I-85.
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Business Loop I-85 was designated as Veterans Parkway in August 2000.
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The first reassurance marker for Business Loop I-85 previously preceded Exit 1 to N Blackstock Road. Frontage roads accompany most of the 1950s-built freeway.
08/29/04

N Blackstock Road (Road 41) angles southeast from Business 85 and Falling Creek Road to Fairforest, where the road turns southward paralleling I-26 to Hadden Crossroads and West View.
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Interstate 26 in South Carolina is the James F. Byrnes Memorial Freeway. A former Governor of South Carolina, James Byrnes also served as the Director of War Mobilization as appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II.
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Exit 2A departs ahead for Interstate 26 eastbound to the capital city of Columbia. The succeeding exits on I-26 east serve the city of Spartanburg: Exit 21 joins the freeway with U.S. 29 (W.O. Ezell Boulevard) and Exit 22 with S.C. 296 (John B. White, Sr. Boulevard). Both routes lead east to Downtown.
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Exit 2A departs for I-26 southeast to Columbia, Orangeburg and Charleston. One of the older freeways in the state, Interstate 26 stretches 221 miles southeast from the North Carolina state line to the South Carolina Lowcountry.
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Exit 2B loops onto I-26 westbound for Asheville, North Carolina. I-26 enters the exchange (Exit 18) with Interstate 85 to the immediate north and reaches the city of Hendersonville in 39 miles.
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Exit 2C quickly departs Business Loop I-85 north after the entrance ramp from I-26 west. Fairforest Road (Road 525/366) runs 3.2 miles north from Fairforest to I-585/U.S. 176 near Lone Oak.
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S.C. 295 follows Spring Street northeast 1.21 miles from Arcadia to Simuel Road ahead of Exit 3. A 16.67 mile long route, S.C. 295 loops around Spartanburg south to Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport (SPA) and east to Delmar, White Stone and U.S. 176/S.C. 9 near Pacolet.
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Exit 3 connects with adjacent Simuel Road ahead of a folded diamond interchange connecting the north end of S.C. 295 with New Cut Road.
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New Cut Road (Road 65) angles southeast from S.C. 295 (Simuel Road) and Business 85 to Una and northwest to Sigsbee and Cunningham.
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Passing under New Cut Road, the next exit along Business Loop I-85 north joins the freeway with S.C. 56 (Asheville Highway) at Hearon Circle.
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S.C. 56 (Asheville Highway) follows a former alignment of U.S. 176 southeast 2.3 miles from Hearon Circle to U.S. 221 (Church Street) in Spartanburg and northwest 1.6 miles to Lone Oak and U.S. 176 (Asheville Highway).
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Construction from 2019 to June 30, 2023 replaces the viaduct along Business 85 over Buffington Road (Road 995), the Norfolk Southern Railroad and Howard Street (Road 2). There is no direct access onto I-585/U.S. 176 westbound from Exit 5. Lone Oak Road (Road 79) instead links with E Campus Road and U.S. 176 at USC Upstate.
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The viaduct spanning Hearon Circle at the split diamond interchange (Exit 4) joining Business 85 with S.C. 56 (Asheville Highway) was built in 1958.
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Exit 5A joins I-585/U.S. 176 southeast onto Pine Street through Spartanburg. Interstate 585 extends 2.25 miles from the cloverleaf interchange with Business 85 to N Pine Street just beyond U.S. 221 (Whitney Road).
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Exit 5A partitions with ramps for I-585/U.S. 176 and parallel Graham Road 1.15 miles southeast to California Avenue (Road 124).
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The freeway along U.S. 176 ended at Business 85 originally, but was extended northwest to an interchange built at Valley Falls Road (Road 79) during a $63 million project undertaken between 2003 and October 25, 2006.¹
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Exit 5B constitutes a slip ramp onto adjacent Milliken Road (Road 998) east ahead of N Campus Boulevard north to USC Upstate.
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Business Loop I-85 runs along the north side of Milliken Arboretum to Sojourners Way.
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S.C. 9 (Boiling Springs Road) branches north from I-585/U.S. 176 and U.S. 176 Connector (N Church Street) 1.40 miles to a cloverleaf interchange with the frontage road system along Business Loop I-85.
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The split diamond interchange (Exit 6) for S.C. 9 (Boiling Springs Road) connects Business Loop I-85 with Milliken and Landers Road to the south and Hospitality Drive to the north. S.C. 9 travels 260 miles from The Grand Strand to become NC 9 north of Boiling Springs and New Prospect.
12/15/16

Removed by 2011, this reassurance marker for Business Loop I-85 was posted at milepost 6. Construction from 2019 to June 30, 2023 replaces the nearby bridges over Lawsons Fork Creek.
08/29/04

A diamond interchange links Business Loop I-85 with Bryant Road (Road 191) at Exit 7. Road 191 connects with U.S. 221 (Chesnee Highway) near Whitney, 0.87 miles to the southeast.
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Bryant Road (Road 191) continues 3.51 miles north from Exit 7 through agricultural areas to Old Furnace Road (Road 56), east of Carlisle.
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Business Loop I-85 converges with Interstate 85 at a trumpet interchange. A left exit returns traffic onto I-85 south for Inman, Asheville and Greenville.
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Business Loop I-85 northbound concludes ahead of Exit 78 with U.S. 221 (Chesnee Highway), 14 miles from the city of Gaffney.
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