State Road 298 (SR 298), known locally as Lillian Highway, is a mostly east–west thoroughfare in
Pensacola, Florida
Pensacola () is the westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle, and the county seat and only incorporated city of Escambia County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 54,312. Pensacola is the principal ...
. It runs from its intersection with
U.S. Highway 98
U.S. Route 98 (US 98) is an east–west United States Highway in the Southeastern United States that runs from western Mississippi to southern Florida. It was established in 1933 as a route between Pensacola, Florida, Pensacola and Apalachicola, F ...
(US 98 or
SR 30) and Dog Track Road, skirting
Perdido Bay
Perdido Bay is a bay at the mouth of and draining the Perdido River, a designated Outstanding Florida Waters river, in Baldwin County, Alabama and Escambia County, Florida, United States. It is essentially a coastal lagoon enclosed by barrier isla ...
on its way east to its terminus at the
West Pensacola spur of SR 295. SR 298 passes under the mainline of SR 295 without an interchange. It serves as a major route through the communities of
Myrtle Grove and
West Pensacola.
Major intersections
Related route
County Road 298A (CR 298A, also known as West Jackson Street) is a county road in Escambia County. From the mid 1950s through the late 1970s/early 1980s, it was part of State Road 298A. It is an
alternate route
An official alternate route is a special route in the United States that provides an alternate alignment for a highway. They are loop roads and found in many road systems in the United States including the U.S. Highway system and various state an ...
to SR 298 running between
SR 727 (N Fairfield Drive), two blocks south of SR 298, and US 98/
SR 292. It is approximately long, passing the western
suburb
A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area, which may include commercial and mixed-use, that is primarily a residential area. A suburb can exist either as part of a larger city/urban area or as a separate ...
s,
Myrtle Grove,
West Pensacola, and
Brownsville. The entire road is only two lanes wide.
While the road was part of the state highway system, it extended north along Fairfield Drive to return to SR 298.
By 1981, the road had been removed from the state highway system and became part of CR 298A.
Through the late 2010s, CR 298A was extended further east to end at
US 29
U.S. Route 29 (US 29) is a north–south United States highway that runs for from Pensacola, Florida to the western suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland in the Southern United States, connecting the Florida Panhandle to the Baltimore-Washington ...
/
SR 95 (N Palafox Street) in downtown Pensacola.
References
External links
298
Year 298 (Roman numerals, CCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Faustus and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 10 ...
298
Year 298 (Roman numerals, CCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Faustus and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 10 ...
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