Route Description
All of US 17 in Georgia that does not have a local street name is known as Ocean Highway (alternatively spelled Ocean Hiway), which was the name of an auto trail established in 1935 connecting New York with Jacksonville. The Georgia General Assembly made the Ocean Hiway designation official in a 1958 resolution that recognized the concerted advertising effort of the Ocean Hiway Association, its impact on tourism, and the signage of the highway in the coastal states to the north. US 17 runs concurrently with SR 25 for almost its entire length in the state. The highways split at the I-16–I-516 interchange in Savannah; US 17 follows I-16 and its unsigned companion SR 404 and then signed SR 404 Spur to the South Carolina state line at the Savannah River while SR 25 heads northwest along the old route of US 17 to Port Wentworth to cross the river upstream from the city. US 17 is a part of the National Highway System from US 82, SR 520, and SR 303 south of Brunswick to US 341 in Brunswick, and from its southern interchange with I-516 to the South Carolina state line.
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