Farm to Market Road 2696 (FM 2696) is a
farm to market road
In the United States, a farm-to-market road or ranch-to-market road (sometimes farm road or ranch road for short) is a state highway or county road that connects rural or agricultural areas to market towns. These are better quality roads, usually ...
in
Bexar County
Bexar County ( or ; es, Béxar ) is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. It is in South Texas and its county seat is San Antonio.
As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,009,324. Bexar County is included in the San Antonio–New Bra ...
,
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 ...
.
It is known in
Greater San Antonio
Greater San Antonio, officially designated San Antonio–New Braunfels, is an eight-county metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Texas defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The metropolitan area straddles South Texas and Central ...
as Blanco Road, a major north–south thoroughfare.
Route description
FM 2696 begins at
Interstate 410
Interstate 410 (abbreviated I-410, and colloquially called Loop 410) is a loop route of I-10 around San Antonio, Texas. It is identified as Connally Loop in honor of former Texas Governor John Connally.
Route description
I-410 c ...
at the western fringe of
Uptown San Antonio, just east of
Castle Hills
Castle Hills is a city located in Bexar County, Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 3,978. It is an enclave of San Antonio and is part of the San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Geography
Castle ...
.
The route travels north through north central
San Antonio
("Cradle of Freedom")
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, crossing
Wurzbach Parkway
Wurzbach Parkway is a part freeway and part major arterial road in San Antonio, Texas, built to provide relief on Interstate 410 (I-410) and Loop 1604 on the city's north side. The highway is named for Harry M. Wurzbach, who represented the Sa ...
and
Loop 1604.
It then runs along the eastern edge of the
Camp Bullis Military Training Reservation.
The FM 2696 designation ends at the San Antonio city limit south of the
Comal County
Comal County ( ) is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 161,501. Comal County is known for its rich German-Texan and European history. Its county seat is New Braunfels.
...
line.
Blanco Road itself continues under Comal County maintenance to an intersection with
SH 46 in
Bulverde.
History
FM 2696 was designated on March 22, 1961, from Loop 410 (now Interstate 410) northward to the Camp Bullis Entrance. FM 2696 was extended north three times: by on September 29, 1977, on October 21, 1981, and to near the Comal County line on October 26, 1983.
The segment between I-410 and Loop 1604 was officially changed to Urban Road 2696 (UR 2696) on June 27, 1995.
The designation reverted to FM 2696 with the elimination of the Urban Road system on November 15, 2018.
On December 18, 2014, the northernmost of the route, from the San Antonio city limit near Calico Landing to the Comal County line, was removed from the state highway system and returned to Bexar County.
A previous turnback proposal would have decommissioned the entirety of FM 2696, but it was rejected by San Antonio city officials. The city instead passed a different proposal, which also resulted in the turnback of many other highways, on the day that FM 2696 was truncated.
As part of the Loop 1604 reconstruction project in northern San Antonio which began in 2021, the connection between FM 2696 and Loop 1604 is being converted to a
diverging diamond interchange
A diverging diamond interchange (DDI), also called a double crossover diamond interchange (DCD), is a subset of diamond interchange in which the opposing directions of travel on the non-freeway road cross each other on either side of the inte ...
.
Major intersections
References
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Transportation in Bexar County, Texas