Alabama State Route 204

Infobox road
state=AL
type=AL
route=204
alternate_name=
length_mi=10
length_round=
length_ref= [ [http://colepages.com/routes201225.html#ala204 Highway Route Info Routes 201 - 225 ] ]
established=
direction_a=West
starting_terminus=
junction=
direction_b=East
ending_terminus=
counties=Calhoun
previous_type=AL
previous_route=203
next_type=AL
next_route=205

State Route 204 or SR-204 is a 10-mile highway that runs from U.S. Highway 431 at Crystal Springs (near Wellington) to State Route 21 at Jacksonville. It is two lanes in its entirety.

Route description

SR-204 travels through rural territory except in Jacksonville. It carries a 55-mph speed limit until entering Jacksonville.

Beginning at US-431 at Crystal Springs, a small water recreation park, the road makes a wide left-hand curve and then a sharp, 35-mph right-hand curve just east of its western terminus. It then passes beneath a narrow, substandard railroad trestle after which an uphill curve takes the road past a former elementary school site. The road then goes straight until turning slightly right and passing a small church. It then straightens again when going past a marshy wooded area on the right and turns slightly left and uphill before passing a cemetery.

Angel Grove Baptist Church can be seen on the right before making a left turn while going downhill. There is a Chevron station at the caution light before going uphill and across a high bridge over a deep valley. After a slight right-hand turn, Pleasant Valley Road can be seen at the caution light. The road again straightens and passes West Point Baptist Church. It then crosses its final bridge while slightly turning left, then turns left again before a short straightaway leading past the Jacksonville Water Treatment Plant, where the speed limit drops to 45 mph.

The road then enters the Jacksonville city limits, where it becomes Nisbet Street and the speed limit drops to 35 mph as it travels across the campus of Jacksonville State University, passing Rudy Abbott Field, Pete Mathews Coliseum, and two residence halls before ending at State Route 21 (known as Pelham Road in Jacksonville). Bennett Boulevard continues off of SR-204 across Pelham Road and passes the JSU softball field and JSU's nursing school. Just prior to its terminus at State Route 21 the road crosses the Chief Ladiga Trail which is an old railbed running northeast from Anniston to Piedmont and then eastward into Georgia where it becomes the Silver Comet Trail before terminating near Smyrna.

This highway is often used by motorists who travel between Jacksonville and areas accessible by U.S. Highway 431, such as Gadsden.

Counties along the route

* Calhoun County, Alabama

Communities along the route

* Crystal Springs
* Angel
* Jacksonville

Major intersections

*U.S. Highway 431 in Crystal Springs
*State Route 21 in Jacksonville

References

External links

*Alabama Department of Transportation county road maps for [http://www.dot.state.al.us/NR/rdonlyres/775C98BE-EE50-4307-A18B-8767AE039215/0/co8.pdf Calhoun] (Adobe Acrobat reader required for maps; enlargement of maps necessary for legibility)