Interstate 95 South - Fayetteville to St. Pauls

Fayetteville Regional Airport (FAY) lies between NC 87 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Freeway) and Business Loop I-95/U.S. 301, north of Exit 44 with Claude Lee Road (SR 2341).

06/01/21

Combining with U.S. 301 nearby, Business Loop I-95 branches southwest from Exit 56 along a freeway into the city of Fayetteville. Interests to Fort Bragg and Pope Army Air Force Base are directed south to Grove Street (NC 24/ 210) and NC 24 (Bragg Boulevard) west.

06/01/21

I-95 and Business Loop I-95 split at a wye interchange (Exit 56). Returning to I-95 at Exit 40, Business Loop I-95 runs 15.73 miles.

06/01/21

Murphy Road (SR 1832) loops 6.42 miles east from U.S. 301 (Dunn Road) at Business Loop I-95 to Maxwell Road (SR 1006) in rural areas of eastern Cumberland County.

06/01/21

The diamond interchange (Exit 55) with Murphy Road (SR 1832) lies just outside the town of Eastover.

06/01/21

Murphy Road (SR 1832) ties into Dunn Road at a parclo interchange with Business Loop I-95/U.S. 301, 0.28 miles to the west. This trailblazer is no longer posted at Exit 55.

06/25/05

I-95 expands with a wide median along the west side of Duck Pond Swamp.

06/01/21

92 miles to the southwest, Florence, South Carolina appears for the first time on distance signs for I-95. Lumberton, follows the Fayetteville area in 36 miles.

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NC 24 comprises an expressway from East Fayetteville to Exit 52 and a point east of Vander.

06/01/21

NC 24 (Bragg Boulevard) and NC 210 provide alternate routes northwest to Fort Bragg and Pope AAF.

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A collector distributor roadway separates from I-95 south for Exit 52. NC 24 stretches across southern reaches of the state for 279 miles between Charlotte and U.S. 70 at Morehead City.

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Exit 52B joins NC 24 west to Grove Street and Downtown Fayetteville. NC 24 NC 24 combines with NC 87/210 north from the city to the town of Spring Lake.

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East from Fayetteville, NC 24 continues 29 miles to the Sampson County seat of Clinton.

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Sunnyside School Road (SR 2000) spans I-95 west from Vander beyond this confirming marker.

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NC 210 branches south from NC 24 (Grove Street) alongside NC 53 (Cedar Creek Road) at East Fayetteville. NC 53/210 overlap 6.66 miles south, meeting I-95 at a parclo interchange (Exit 49).

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The Fayetteville city limits extend southward along NC 53/210 (Cedar Creek Road) to the exchange at Exit 49. NC 53 and NC 210 take separate courses along the South and Cape Fear Rivers respectively before coming back together in 53 miles near Kelly.

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Advancing southwest, I-95 proceeds one mile to the Cumberland County Rest Area.

06/01/21

The confirming marker posted preceding Locks Creek was removed between August and October 2018.

12/30/12

Rest areas line both sides of Interstate 95 east of the Fields Road (SR 2215) over crossing.

12/28/22

Crown Coliseum, the concert and sports venue for Fayetteville, lies west of NC 87 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Freeway) along Owen Drive (SR 1007).

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A cloverleaf interchange (Exit 46) with NC 87 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Freeway) follows the Cape Fear River along Interstate 95 south.

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Collector distributor roadways separate from both directions of I-95 for NC 87 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Freeway) north into Fayetteville and south to Grays Creek.

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Measuring 237 miles overall, NC 87 originates in Southport along the coast and extends northwest to Virginia Route 87 beyond Eden.

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NC 87 heads southeast from Fayetteville to the Bladen County seat of Elizabethtown and U.S. 74/76 west of Wilmington.

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Interstate 95 in North Carolina is part of the Purple Heart Memorial Highway.

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Meeting I-95 at Exit 44, Claude Lee Road (SR 2341) spurs 2.20 miles south from Doc Bennett Road (SR 2212), which runs along the south side of Fayetteville Municipal Airport (FAY) east to Fayetteville Motor Speedway.

12/28/22

A diamond interchange (Exit 44) joins I-95 with Claude Lee Road (SR 2341) adjacent to Rockfish Creek. SR 2341 continues north along Doc Bennett Road 0.82 miles to Airport Road (SR 2260) for the passenger terminal at FAY Airport.

12/28/22

NCDOT recorded 48,000 vehicles per day (vpd) between Exit 44 and 41 in 2019.

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The succeeding exit on Interstate 95 south is with Chicken Foot Road (former NC 59) north to Main Street through Hope Hills.

12/28/22

Chicken Foot Road (SR 2252) extends south from Exit 41 to Sand Hill Road (SR 2238) east for the Cypress Lakes community and NC 20 in Bladen County.

12/28/22

Turned over to local maintenance in November 2022, NC 59 comprised an 8.29 mile long route from the diamond interchange at Exit 41 in Hope Mills to U.S. 401 Business (Raeford Road) in Fayetteville.

12/28/22

Main Street (old NC 59) north to U.S. 301 south connects with NC 71 toward Parkton.

12/28/22

Business Loop I-95 returns to I-95 south from Fayetteville via a wye interchange at mile marker 40.

06/01/21

Continuing south, Interstate 95 enters Robeson County across Cold Camp Creek.

06/01/21

The Green Springs Road overpass beyond this shield assembly was rebuilt as part of the construction for the south end of the Fayetteville Outer Loop (I-295).

06/01/21

Started in Spring 2019, construction builds a trumpet interchange with I-295 north and widens I-95 to eight overall lanes between mile marker 37 and 40. Work runs to 2024.

12/30/20

Spanning I-95 one mile north of the diamond interchange (Exit 33) with U.S. 301, construction underway in 2024/25 replaces the McRainey Road overpass. U.S. 301 runs west of I-95 north back to NC 71.

07/11/24

U.S. 301 bends southward and switches sides with I-95 ahead of St. Pauls. The highway remains east of I-95 until Exit 25.

07/11/24

Widening of Interstate 95 to eight lanes south of Fayetteville includes redesigning the exchange with U.S. 301 into a dumbbell interchange and replacing the U.S. 301 overpass.

07/11/24

NC 20 follows Broad Street west from St. Pauls to meet I-95 at a diamond interchange (Exit 31) in one mile.

08/28/21

Interstate 95 crosses Mercer Branch by this confirming marker.

08/28/21

NC 20 northwest to U.S. 401 in Raeford connects with NC 211 toward the village of Pinehurst in Moore County.

08/28/21

Exit 31 leaves I-95 south for NC 20. Measuring 28.60 miles in length, NC 20 heads northwest to U.S. 401 Business in Raeford, the Hoke County seat, and east to NC 87 at Duart.

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