Highways

Interstate 77 passes through the middle of Washington County, connecting Cleveland to the north with Columbia, South Carolina, to the south.

State Route 7 follows the Ohio River and connects New Matamoras, Newport, Marietta, Belpre, and Little Hocking. The Ohio Department of Transportation will spend over $20 million to make Route 7 a five-lane controlled access corridor east of Marietta to accommodate the over 30,000 vehicles that travel that road daily. Route 7 from Marietta to Belpre and Little Hocking is already a four-lane divided highway.

U.S. Route 50 forms a junction with State Routes 32 and 7 providing a four-lane divided highway route that extends to Washington, D.C., in the east and Sacramento, California, in the west.

Corridor D is the approximately $300-million dollar U.S. Route 50 bypass around Parkersburg. This project is under construction and will be a revolutionary transportation enhancement for the entire Mid-Ohio Valley. U.S. 50 will cross the Ohio River near Belpre, Ohio, where U.S. Route 50 will interchange with State Route 7/State Route 32. The project is expected to be completed in the Fall of 2007.

Other significant State Highways of commerce include:

• Route 60 following the Muskingum River between Marietta and Zanesville.
• Route 339 linking Belpre in the south to Beverly and Waterford in the northwest part of Washington County.
• Route 550 links Marietta with Barlow, Vincent and Athens.
• Route 26 provides access to the oil, gas and timber rich areas of northeast Washington County.
• Route 821 links State Route 60 near Marietta with the communities of Lower Salem, Whipple and Macksburg.

To see Ohio Department of Transportation Count information for highways in Washington County, click here for a map. For Washington County ODOT Map, click here.