Site Navigation Alabama Florida Georgia Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee     U.S. Highway 98 Eastbound - Santa Rosa County U.S. 98 East U.S. 98 eastbound reassurance shield posted along the Gulf Breeze Parkway at Shoreline Drive in Gulf Breeze. Shoreline Drive along with Fairpoint Drive compose a loop west of U.S. 98. The two-lane roadway is unsigned Santa Rosa County 30A. U.S. 98 is actually also unsigned Florida 30. Photo taken 05/09/04. 2000 installed Santa Rosa County Toll 399 overhead for Pensacola Beach on U.S. 98/Gulf Breeze Parkway eastbound. This overhead reflects a maintenance transfer of Florida 399 from the state to the county. This affects the Bob Sikes Bridge and routing southward into Pensacola Beach. All of Florida 399 from Pensacola Beach through the Gulf Islands National Seashore was already county maintained. Escambia County 399 also spurs to the west of Pensacola Beach towards Fort Pickens and another portion of the National Seashore. Photos taken 05/09/04. U.S. 98 eastbound approaching the western terminus of Florida 399. Florida 399 links U.S. 98/Gulf Breeze Parkway to the Bob Sikes toll Bridge crossing Santa Rosa Sound into Pensacola Beach. Tolls on the bridge increased from 35 cents per passenger vehicle to $1 by 1994. First photo taken 12/03/00; second photo taken 05/09/04. The U.S. 98 eastbound reassurance shield assembly erroneously is cosigned with a Florida 399 southbound shield. Florida 399 does begin ahead at the Pensacola Beach Road trumpet interchange. However there is no overlapped segment with U.S. 98 on the Gulf Breeze Parkway. Florida 399 southbound constitutes about a quarter mile of Pensacola Beach Road between U.S. 98 and Soundview Trail. Photo taken 05/09/04. An older trumpet interchange links Florida 399 (Pensacola Beach Road) with U.S. 98 (Gulf Breeze Parkway). Pictured here is an eastbound reassurance shield at the Florida 399 ramps and lefthand turn lane to McClure Drive. Photo taken 05/09/04. U.S. 98 (Gulf Breeze Parkway) leaves the Pensacola Beach Road trumpet and encounters a traffic signal for an adjacent shopping center. The four-lane parkway widens to accommodate a larger grass median. Photo taken 05/09/04. Florida Toll 281 and Garcon Point Bridge trailblazer for the Santa Rosa Sound crossing six miles ahead. U.S. 98 enters the Gulfs Shores National Seashore ahead on the drive to Oriole Beach. Speed limits increase to 55 MPH from 35 MPH in Gulf Breeze. Photo taken 05/09/04. Nearing the north end of the southern segment of Santa Rosa County 191A (Oriole Beach Road) on U.S. 98 east. Oriole Beach Road spurs south of the Gulf Breeze Parkway to the Intracoastal Waterway and Bay Street in Oriole Beach. Photo taken 05/09/04. Eastbound at the Oriole Beach Road traffic light of Santa Rosa County 191A. Various segments of Santa Rosa County 191 exist north of Santa Rosa Sound in and around the Milton and Bagdad area. Photo taken 05/09/04. 1.7 miles east of Oriole Beach, U.S. 98 approaches the southern terminus of Florida Toll 281. Florida Toll 281 travels 6.4 miles north to Avalon Boulevard and junction Santa Rosa County 191 (Garcon Point Road) ahead. Photo taken 05/09/04. The Garcon Point Bridge was constructed between 1996 and 1999 to link northern and southern Santa Rosa Counties across Santa Rosa Sound. The two-lane toll bridge spans the waters between Santa Rosa peninsula and Garcon Point east of Pensacola Bay. A $3.00 car toll is levied on all passenger vehicles regardless of direction traveled. Photo taken 05/09/04. An 11-mile drive carries motorists northward across the Garcon Point Bridge on Florida Toll 281 to junction Interstate 10 (Exit 22) at Avalon Beach. The creation of the span was an effort to give an alternative route between Milton & Interstate 10 and U.S. 98 & Santa Rosa Island in lieu Pensacola. During Hurricane Ivan tolls across the Garcon Point Bridge were lifted to expedite the evacuation process. The span was also built for that very reason, to provide for a third north-south road for Pensacola Beach and Navarre. Photo taken 05/09/04. Page Updated June 19, 2005.