Interstate 95 North Jacksonville - Southside to Downtown

A distributor roadway separates from I-95 north at Exit 333 for SR 9B. The commuter freeway serves interests from St. Johns, Flagler Center business park, and Nocatee north into Southside Jacksonville.

03/26/20

Jax Beaches is signed for the SR 9B connection with SR 202 (JTB) east via I-295 north.

03/26/20

Exit 335 joins I-95 with Old Saint Augustine Road by Baptist Medical Center South and the Bartram Park community. Old St. Augustine Road travels west through Greenland to I-295 and north to SR 13 (San Jose Boulevard) at Goodbys.

03/26/20

I-95 travels between Batram Park Boulevard and the Flagler Center to Exit 335. A folded diamond interchange connects with Old St. Augustine Road opposite wetland areas along Big Davis Creek. The exchange opened to traffic on August 15, 2004 after 21 months of construction.¹²

03/26/20

Signs for Exit 335 display Old St. Augustine Road on I-95 north while previous overheads southbound referenced just St. Augustine Road. This was related to a separate section of St. Augustine Road located north of SR 13 (San Jose Boulevard) and San Jose. Area residents and businesses differentiate the Mandarin segment from the northern section by calling it Old St. Augustine Road. FDOT signs referenced Old St. Augustine Road due to its use on an official map.¹²

03/26/20

With five foot high letters spelling out Jacksonville, the Old St. Augustine Road overpass acts as a gateway for the city along I-95 northbound.

10/06/18

A series of arrow-per-lane signs outline the forthcoming separation with Exit 337 for the Jacksonville Beltway along Interstate 95 north.

09/25/22

The East Beltway of I-295 serves Jacksonville Beach, Atlantic Beach and Neptune Beach via connections with SR 202, U.S. 90, or SR 10. The West Beltway, completed between 1968-77, encircles the Mandarin, Ortega and Springfield neighborhoods of Jacksonville. It provides a direct route to Orange Park in Clay County and I-10 west for Lake City.

09/25/22

One quarter mile ahead of the two lane ramp (Exit 337) for I-295 on I-95 north. Signs, about 350 of them, were altered or replaced as part of $1.3 million project between December 2011 and Summer 2012 to update State Road 9A as I-295 for the East Beltway.²

09/25/22

A $107 million project underway from November 2001 to 2005 expanded the former three-wye interchange with I-295 to incorporate new ramps with the East Beltway. All connections to the newly completed SR 9A through Southside were open by mid August 2005.¹

09/25/22

Exit 337 separates from I-95 north at the Greenland Road overpass, which was replaced by 2005 during SR 9A interchange construction. The East Beltway provides a long distance bypass of Downtown Jacksonville through the Southside, Arlington and North Jacksonville neighborhoods of the city. The graceful Dames Point Bridge (N.B. Broward Bridge) spans the St. Johns along the way.

09/25/22

Single lane ramps partition for Interstate 295 north (West Beltway) to Orange Park and north (East Beltway) to the Jacksonville Beaches and the University of North Florida. The western beltway mainly serves commuter interests, especially across the Buckman Bridge to U.S. 17 and SR 21 (Blanding Boulevard) in Clay County. The route is not a favorable long-distance bypass of the city center.

03/26/20

An overhead sign along the flyover for the West Beltway advises motorists of the I-295 Express Lanes. The toll lanes extend west from I-95 across the Buckman Bridge.

09/25/22

Continuing along the flyover for the West Beltway from I-95 north. Previously numbered as Exit 97 in the sequential numbering system, this connection replaced a left side ramp.

10/06/18

09/25/22

With six overall lanes, Interstate 95 passes through the systems interchange with the Jacksonville Beltway.

07/23/13

U.S. 1 (Philips Highway) returns to Interstate 95 alongside the Florida East Coast Railway (FEC) at Exit 339 in one mile. The US highway last met the freeway at Exit 298, south of St. Augustine.

07/23/13

Five lanes of Interstate 95 parallel Julington Creek to the folded diamond interchange (Exit 339) with U.S. 1 near Greenland.

07/23/13

The lane gained from Interstate 295 departs for U.S. 1 (Phillips Highway) at Exit 339. The exchange at Exit 339 lies next to The Avenues Mall and the south end of SR 115 (Southside Boulevard).

07/23/13

Exit 339 loops away from Interstate 95 north for U.S. 1 (Phillips Highway) north through Mandarin and south through South Side.

07/23/13

SR 115 (Southside Boulevard) runs north from U.S. 1 at The Avenues mall to parallel Interstate 95 through South Side Jacksonville.

07/23/13

A pair of wye interchanges link Interstate 95 north and SR 115 (Southside Boulevard) north at forthcoming Exit 340.

07/23/13

SR 115 travels almost wholly within Duval County from South Side Jacksonville to Callahan in Nassau County. The state road constitutes a busy arterial north to a sprawling office campus at SR 202 (Butler Boulevard) and the Arlington section of Jacksonville as U.S. 90 Alternate.

07/23/13

Exit 340 partitions from Interstate 95 north to Southside Boulevard. SR 115 overlaps with a multitude of routes between Beach Boulevard (U.S. 90) and the Springfield neighborhood north of Jacksonville. The state road converges with I-95 again as the unsigned counterpart of U.S. 1 at Exit 354.

07/23/13

Interstate 95 bends northwest alongside Pottsburg Creek Swamp between the Mandarin and South Side neighborhoods to SR 152 (Baymeadows Road).

07/23/13

A diamond interchange (Exit 341) connects Interstate 95 with SR 152 (Baymeadows Road) in one mile.

07/23/13

Three exits depart Interstate 95 over the course of four miles for the San Marco and South Side neighborhoods.

07/04/06

State Road 152 follows 6.42 miles of Baymeadows Road west to SR 13 (San Jose Boulevard) and east to Interstate 295 (East Beltway). Florida Coastal School of Law lies west of I-95 in a business park north of SR 152.

07/23/13

Exit 341 leaves Interstate 95 north for SR 152 (Baymeadows Road) west to the San Marco neighborhood east to Stockdale in South Side Jacksonville.

07/23/13

The freeway traverses Pottsburg Creek Swamp by this reassurance marker.

07/23/13

Advancing northwest, I-95 meets SR 202 (J. Turner Boulevard) at a cloverstack interchange (Exit 344). SR 202 begins just west of I-95 at U.S. 1 (Phillips Highway) in the Belfort Station community. Tolled until 1988, SR 202 runs 13 miles east across South Side of Jacksonville to the city of Jacksonville Beach, serving as the catalyst to a number of suburban developments.

07/23/13

Butler Boulevard (JTB) is named for J. Turner Butler, a former Florida House member and president of the Florida Senate to 1941. His legislative efforts aided in the creation of the Jacksonville Port Authority and he also wrote bills that established the Acosta and Main Street Bridges and the Jacksonville Expressway system. His efforts also aided the government merger between Duval County and Jacksonville city in 1968.³

07/23/13

SR 202 leads east from Interstate 95 as a full freeway to Jacksonville Beach. The east end of the freeway was completed when the trumpet interchange with SR A1A opened to traffic on March 18, 1997 at a cost of $4.7 million.⁴ JTB connects with I-295 north to both the University of North Florida and Florida State College's South campus.

07/23/13

A $78 million project underway from 2015 to early 2018 expanded the I-95/SR 202 exchange. A new flyover from I-95 south to SR 202 (J. Turner Boulevard) east was constructed and the ramp from I-95 north was expanded to include access to SR 202 west at a signalized intersection.¹⁰

07/23/13

Continuing between the San Marcos and South Side neighborhoods of Jacksonville, I-95 meets U.S. 1 Alternate/SR 126 (Emerson Street) north to Empire Point in three miles.

07/23/13

Bowden Road leads west from a residential area east of Pottsburg Creek to intersect U.S. 1 (Philips Highway) just west of Exit 345. SR 109 (University Boulevard) ties into U.S. 1 nearby.

11/06/19

An auxiliary lane opens north from SR 202 to the half diamond interchange (Exit 345) with Bowden Road.

11/06/19

Return access to Interstate 95 north from Bowden lies within the adjacent parclo interchange with SR 109 (University Boulevard). University Boulevard carries the state road northeast from SR 13 (San Jose Boulevard) at Lakewood to Spring Glen and the Arlington River.

11/06/19

Exit 345 leaves I-95 north to Bowden Road for SR 109 (University Boulevard). SR 109 exists in two portions: a 6.44 mile segment between SR 13 and SR 115 (Arlington Expressway) via Cesery Boulevard, and another 2.27 miles along University Boulevard north from SR 115 to Floral Bluff and Jacksonville University.

11/06/19

Sound walls overgrown with foliage, accompany Interstate 95 through the Englewood community between SR 109 and Exit 347 with U.S. 1 Alternate (Emerson Street).

11/06/19

U.S. 1 Alternate loops east from U.S. 1 (Phillips Highway) to the Hart Bridge, East Jacksonville and the Stadium District.

11/06/19

One half mile south of the parclo interchange (Exit 347) with U.S. 1 Alternate (Emerson Street). Emerson Street carries SR 126 west from U.S. 1 (Phillips Highway) to SR 13 (San Jose Boulevard) near Miramar Terrace. U.S. 1 Alternate continues Emerson Street east to the Emerson Expressway at Spring Glen.

11/06/19

U.S. 1 Alternate (Emerson Street) meets U.S. 90 (Beach Boulevard) at an interchange along the short Emerson Expressway. North from there, U.S. 1 Alternate merges with the Hart Bridge Expressway (SR 228) across the St. Johns River.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Parkway, a L-shaped freeway, carries the route north and west around the Springfield Historical District to meet I-95 again at Exit 354.

11/06/19

Interstate 95 converges with U.S. 1 (Philips Highway) north and U.S. 90 (Atlantic Boulevard) west along the Overland Bridge ahead of Downtown Jacksonville.

11/06/19

Underway from January 2013 to Spring 2018, the Overland Bridge Replacement Project replaced ramps at Exit 350 A with a new collector distributor roadway (Exit 348) separating from just north of the San Diego Road underpass.

11/06/19

U.S. 1 north and U.S. 90 west combine along the Overland Bridge c/d roadway system to the Main Street Bridge spanning the St. Johns River. The two routes enter Downtown Jacksonville by The Landing and west of TIAA Bank Field at the Jacksonville sports complex.

11/06/19

The $158 million Overland Bridge project commenced on January 14, 2013. Originally anticipated for completion by mid 2016, road work rebuilt a 2.3 mile section of I-95, including the Overland Bridge viaduct at Exit 348.⁴

11/06/19

The c/d roadway at Exit 348 connects Interstate 95 north with both the Main Street Bridge (U.S. 1/90) and the Acosta Bridge (SR 13) north across the St. Johns River to the Central Civic Core District, the La Valla District and Downtown.

11/06/19

The initial ramp from the Overland Bridge c/d roadway system lowers to Atlantic Boulevard. U.S. 90 lines Atlantic Boulevard east to the split with U.S. 90 Alternate and Beach Boulevard at St. Nicholas nearby.

11/06/19

Atlantic Boulevard west ties into Kings Avenue (SR 5), which leads south to become part of U.S. 1 (Philips Highway). U.S. 1/90 previously paralleled I-95 north along Kings Avenue.

11/06/19

Northbound U.S. 1 shifts onto I-95 from Kings Avenue. Separate mileposts line the c/d roadway system along the Overland Bridge.

11/06/19

Westbound U.S. 90 joins the c/d roadway system via a wye interchange from Atlantic Boulevard.

11/06/19

Ramps from U.S. 1 north and U.S. 90 west merge onto the main roadway of I-95 west, 1.5 miles ahead of the Big I interchange with Interstate 10 west.

10/16/22

U.S. 1 north / U.S. 90 west leave the I-95 c/d roadway in a half mile for the Main Street Bridge into Downtown. SR 13 north follows Hendricks Avenue to Prudential Drive west and the Acosta Expressway.

11/06/19

Curving west over SR 5 (Kings Avenue) and SR 13 (Hendricks Avenue) along I-95 north at the South Bank District.

11/06/19

Interstate 95 travels west from U.S. 1/90 across the Fuller Warren Bridge 1.25 miles to Exit 351 B for I-10 west to Lake City and Tallahassee.

10/16/22

Angling northwest across the St. Johns River, the Acosta Bridge includes an exit ramp to San Marco Boulevard (SR 13 south). SR 13 concludes at the north end of the Acosta Bridge with ramps to Riverside Avenue (unsigned SR 211) southwest into the Brooklyn community and Broad Street (former U.S. 17) north to the Central Civic Core District.

11/06/19

A separate ramp lowers from the Main Street Bridge exit to Prudential Drive, State Road 5 east to Kings Avenue south. Northward through Downtown, U.S. 1/90 partition into the couplet of Main and Ocean Streets to their split at Beaver Street (U.S. 90 west).

11/06/19

Looking north from Interstate 95 at the departing Acosta Expressway and the parallel Jacksonville Skyway. The Skyway is a 2.5 mile long automated people mover from Kings Avenue in the South Bank District to State and Union Streets (U.S. 17/23) at the Church District.

07/23/13

Confirming marker posted above the two wye interchanges with the Acosta Expressway (SR 13) and Main Street Bridge (U.S. 1/90).

10/16/22

A concrete girder bridge, the Fuller Warren Bridge was constructed for $100 million starting on August 5, 1996. The southbound span opened on April 16, 2000 with work continuing on the northbound span until it fully opened to traffic on November 17, 2002,^5,6 The 75 foot high span replaced a bascule bridge built by the city in 1954,⁷ which was tolled until 1988.

10/16/22

I-95 crosses the Saint Johns River on the Fuller Warren Bridge west to the Avondale and Brooklyn neighborhoods. A cable-stayed pedestrian bridge crosses over the span between Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville and Nemours Children's Specialty Care hospital.

11/06/19

Unobstructed views of the Jacksonville sky line are afforded to northbound drivers across the Fuller Warren Bridge. Visible in the foreground is the Florida East Coast Railway (FEC) bridge, the Acosta Bridge and a blue tower from the Main Street lift Bridge.

06/16/16

Exit 351 A departs next for Park Street to former U.S. 17 (College / Post Streets) and Riverside Avenue (SR 211). Exit 351 B follows for Interstate 10 west to Lake City, where the freeway meets I-75.

10/16/22

The adjacent Acosta Bridge is a 1994 replacement of the original lift bridge built in 1921.

06/16/16

Exit 351 A lowers from the Fuller Warren Bridge to the intersection of Peninsular Place at Park Street just ahead of Exit 351 B to I-10. Construction between February 2005 and a ribbon cutting ceremony on September 17, 2011 upgraded a 1950s designed exchange with left side ramps, into a high speed systems interchanges. Known as "The Big I", the $154 million project involved 17 separate bridges and 21 ramps. The project earned the 2011 People's Choice Award.^7,8

10/16/22

A two lane flyover (Exit 351 B) joins I-95 north with Interstate 10 west. Traveling across the width of Florida between Jacksonville and Pensacola, I-10 is a transcontinental route running west to Santa Monica, California.

10/16/22

Big I construction removed the original ramps to Myrtle Avenue (Exit 352 A) and replaced them with a collector distributor roadway (Exit 353 B) joining I-95 north with Forsyth and Monroe Streets east to Downtown.

10/16/22

Interstate 95 northbound narrows to two through lanes at Exit 351 B for I-10 west. A $126 million project underway from May 5, 2017 to Summer 2020 Spring 2021 Fall 2022 added an additional lane along both directions of the Fuller Warren Bridge and expanded the flyover for I-10 west to three lanes.¹³

07/23/13

Exit 353B parts ways with I-95 north and merges with traffic from the east end of I-10. The c/d roadway expands to four lanes to ramps for Forsyth Street east through the La Valla District and Monroe Street east to the Duval County Courthouse.

03/03/13

Exit 353 B parts ways with I-95 north and merges with traffic from the east end of I-10. The c/d roadway expands to four lanes to ramps for Forsyth Street east through the La Valla District and Monroe Street east to the Duval County Courthouse.

03/03/13