U.S. Route 80 in Alabama

U.S. Route 80
Dixie Overland Highway
US 80 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by ALDOT
Length	218.621 mi[1] (351.836 km) The total length of US 80 in Alabama and the total length of SR 8 are not the same.
Existed	November 11, 1926 (1926-11-11)–present
Tourist routes	Selma To Montgomery March Byway Selma To Montgomery National Historic Trail
Major junctions
West end	US 80 / US 11 at the Mississippi state line
Major intersections	US 11 in Cuba US 43 in Demopolis US 31 in Montgomery I-65 in Montgomery I-65 / US 82 in Montgomery US 331 in Montgomery US 82 / US 231 in Montgomery I-85 in Montgomery US 29 from Tuskegee to Alliance US 280 / US 431 in Phenix City
East end	US 80 / SR 22 / SR 540 in Columbus, GA
Location
Country	United States
State	Alabama
Counties	Sumter, Marengo, Hale, Perry, Dallas, Lowndes, Montgomery, Macon, Lee, Russell
Highway system
United States Numbered Highway System List Special Divided Alabama State Highway System Interstate US State
← SR 79 → SR 81
← SR 7 SR 8 → SR 9

U.S. Route 80 (US 80) is a major U.S. Highway in the American state of Alabama. The Alabama Department of Transportation internally designates the majority of US 80 throughout the state as State Route 8 (SR 8), save for parts of the route throughout Selma and near the Mississippi border. Serving as the main east to west highway through Alabama's Black Belt region, US 80 became well known as the main route for the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches; it was the route along which the Civil Rights demonstrators walked, from Selma to Montgomery, and the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma was the site of Bloody Sunday. The highway was also once a major transcontinental highway (the Dixie Overland Highway) reaching from Tybee Island, Georgia, to San Diego, California, but has since been truncated to Dallas, Texas because it was largely replaced by the Interstate Highway System.