Route Description
The route starts at the Florida-Georgia state line, where Decatur and Grady counties meet, and where US 27 continues south into Florida co-signed with Florida State Road 63. US 27 heads northwest through rural southwestern Georgia, crossing into Decatur County as a 4-lane divided highway, and skirts Attapulgus to the east on its way to Bainbridge. South of Bainbridge, US 27 meets with and overlaps US 84, and forms a controlled-access perimeter highway around the southern and western portion of the city, before splitting from US 84 and heading northwest into Miller County and through Colquitt into Early County and Blakely, which it skirts to the east.
Now heading north, the route passes through Bluffton in Clay County, then reaches Cuthbert in Randolph County, again skirting the town to its east. US 27 reaches Lumpkin in Stewart County as its next destination, which it skirts to the west. Still heading north, the route reaches Cusseta in Chattahoochee County, where it overlaps and is co-signed with US 280 and SR 520 into Columbus in Muscogee County. The routes head northwest into Columbus, cross I-185, and US 27 splits from US 280 just before reaching the Alabama state line, and heads north through downtown Columbus, crossing I-185 once again, just before also crossing US 80 on its way into Harris County.
US 27 roughly parallels I-185 on its trek north through Harris County, and crosses I-185 once more shortly after crossing into Troup County, where it also crosses I-85 just south of LaGrange. The route continues north, passes through Heard County, and heads through the heart of Carrollton in Carroll County. Angling northwest, the route crosses I-20 south of Bremen, and makes its way in a northerly direction through Haralson County into Polk County, where it skirts Cedartown to its east. Entering Floyd County, US 27 makes its way through the center of Rome, then angles west into Chattooga County and Summerville. Turning sharply north again in Summerville, the route passes through LaFayette in Walker County. At this point, US 27 becomes LaFayette Road and then passes back and forth twice between Walker County and Catoosa County, before meeting its northern terminus at the Tennessee state line in Fort Oglethorpe.
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