State Road 727 (SR 727) is a
state highway
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in the
Pensacola metropolitan area
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. It is one of four "misnumbered" state road 7xx highways in the Pensacola area. It is locally known as West Fairfield Drive and South Fairfield Drive. Its southern terminus is at an
intersection
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with
SR 292 (Gulf Beach Highway). Its northern terminus is an intersection with
SR 295 (New Warrington Road) in
West Pensacola. From the eastern terminus, Fairfield Drive continues eastward with the SR 295 designation until
SR 289 (Ninth Avenue) in Pensacola. Until the mid-1990s, the route was designated State Road 289A.
Like SR 295 and the nearby
SR 296,
SR 298, and
SR 742, SR 727 is primarily a
bypass route
A bypass is a road or highway that avoids or "bypasses" a built-up area, town, or village, to let through traffic flow without interference from local traffic, to reduce congestion in the built-up area, and to improve road safety. A bypass spe ...
for Pensacola. Motorists traveling near the
Gulf of Mexico
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shore west of Pensacola often use Fairfield Drive to avoid the downtown section and continue eastward via
Interstate 110 (I-110;
SR 8A) to
I-10
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(
SR 8) and then crossing
Escambia Bay
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on the
Interstate highway
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.
Major intersections
References
External links
*
Southeastroads.com page on State Road 727
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