Highways

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Lexington County Highway System

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No County in the State of South Carolina has a better interstate and U.S. Highway transportation network than Lexington County.  The County has over 60 miles of interstate highway with dozens of industrial sites, parks, and buildings with interstate access.  Lexington County is within a single day’s drive to all of the major metropolitan areas of the eastern U.S.

Interstate 26 travels through northern Lexington County connecting with Charleston to the east and Greenville-Spartanburg, SC, Asheville, NC, and Kingsport, Tennessee and Interstate 81 to the west.

Interstate 20 runs north to south through the County connecting to Florence, SC and Interstate 95 to the east and Augusta, Ga., Atlanta, and Montgomery, Ala. to the west. 

Interstate 77 also connects in Lexington County.  I-77 and Interstate 26 intersect near Columbia Metropolitan Airport.  I-77 travels through South Carolina to Charlotte 1.5 hours away and continues north through North Carolina, Southwestern Virginia, West Virginia and Ohio, terminating in Cleveland.

U.S. Highways 1, 178, and 321 are also major trade routes available to Lexington County business and industry.  Highway 1, the major trade route for the U.S. prior to the completion of Interstate 95, travels north to south through the County as does U.S. 321.  U.S. 178 connects the County to Charleston to the east and the Upstate of South Carolina to the west. 

South Carolina Highway System

While South Carolina is 40th in size nationally, it has the 5th largest state maintained road system (a total of 42,000 toll-free miles) and is crisscrossed by five strategic interstates (I-20, I-26, I-77, I-85, and I-95). The location and intersection of these interstates, combined with South Carolina's state highways, provide efficient access to the state's ports and over half of the nations fastest growing metropolitan statistical areas.

One measure of the commitment and success of South Carolina's road system is the fact that the University of North Carolina (Charlotte) rated South Carolina's Department of Transportation first or second as the most efficient system in the nation for the last four years. A second measure of our commitment is the state's launch of an unprecedented $5 billion investment over the next several years - this investment will more than double current road/highway construction and improvements.