South Carolina Highway 6

SC Highway 6
Route information
Maintained by SCDOT
Length:	116 mi (186 km)
Existed:	1922 – present
Major junctions
East end:	US 76 in Ballentine
	I-95 in Santee I-26 near St. Matthews I-20 near Lexington
West end:	US 52 in Moncks Corner
Highway system
South Carolina Highways Interstate U.S. State Scenic ← SC 5 SC 7 →

South Carolina Highway 6 is a 115-mile (185 km) state highway that extends from Moncks Corner in Berkeley County to Ballentine in Richland County, near Irmo. It uniquely links all three of the major hydropower projects in South Carolina: Lake Murray, Lake Marion and Lake Moultrie.

Route description

The highway runs generally southeast from the central part of South Carolina to near the Atlantic Ocean and is listed as a hurricane evacuation route.^[1]

Beginning at a junction with U.S. Highway 52 in Moncks Corner, the route runs northwest along the shoreline of Lake Moultrie as West Main Street. It then turns right onto Ranger Drive. It turns left onto "Old Number Six Highway" where is later starts a concurrency with SC 45 as Eutaw Road. The concurrency runs and far from Lake Marion, and passes through Eutawville. There SC 45 departs to the west and SC 6 continues along the lake through Vance to Santee, where it intersects Interstate 95. It then adjoins the Santee State Park on its right. After a concurrency with SC 267 begins, it becomes Main Street through Elloree, South Carolina. The concurrency ends when SC 267 turns off to the right onto Lonestar Road. SC 6 then traverses St. Matthews as Bridge Street before having a brief concurrency with U.S. Highway 176. Route 26 turns left onto Caw Caw Highway and has an interchange with Interstate 26. The route turns right and head northwest in a concurrency with U.S. Route 21 and then separates from U.S. 21 onto Center Hill Road. It turns right on St. Matthews Road in a northwesterly direction, passing through Swansea as 2nd Street intersecting U.S. Route 321 in town and joining a concurrency with SC 302 as Edmund Hwy. The concurrency ends when SC 6 turns to the left onto S. Lake Drive where it heads northwest to Red Bank. In Red Bank, it intersects with Interstate 20.

The route then passes through Lexington where it crosses U.S. Route 1 and has a brief concurrency with U.S. Route 378. SC 6 passes just east of Lake Murray (over the Saluda Dam as a divided highway). In Irmo, SC 6 changes from N. Lake Drive to Dreher Shoals Road before ending at a junction with U.S. Highway 76 in Ballentine. The last section of the route runs south and west of Columbia, the state capital. Counties traversed by the route include Berkeley, Orangeburg, Calhoun, Lexington, and Richland.

Major intersections

County	Location	mi	km	Destinations	Notes
Berkeley	Moncks Corner	0.0	0.0	US 52 – Goose Creek, St. Stephen	Southern terminus
		1.0	1.6	US 17 Alt. (Live Oak Drive) – Summerville, Jamestown
	Cross	12.9	20.8	SC 311 west to US 176 west – Holly Hill	Eastern terminus of SC 311
		19.8	31.9	SC 45 east (Trojan Road) – Pineville	South end of concurrency with SC 45
Orangeburg	Eutawville	30.8	49.6	SC 45 west (Porcher Avenue) – Wells	North end of concurrency with SC 45
	Vance	35.9	57.8	SC 210 west (Vance Road) – Bowman	Eastern terminus of SC 210
		37.3	60.0	SC 310 south (Camden Road) – Holly Hill	Northern terminus of SC 310
	Santee	40.7	65.5	I-95 / US 15 north / US 301 north (Purple Heart Memorial Freeway) – St. George, Summerton	Diamond interchange; I-95 Exit 98; South end of concurrencies with US 15 and US 301
		41.1	66.1	US 15 south (Bass Drive) / US 301 south (Five Chop Road) – St. George, Orangeburg	North end of concurrencies with US 15 and US 301
	Elloree	45.7	73.5	SC 267 south (Tee Vee Road) to US 15 south – Wells	South end of concurrency with SC 267
		47.7	76.8	SC 47 south (Cleveland Street) to US 301 (Five Chop Road) – Orangeburg	Northern terminus of SC 47
		48.9	78.7	SC 267 north (McCords Ferry Road) – Fort Motte	North end of concurency with SC 267
Calhoun	Creston	54.4	87.5	SC 33 (Cameron Road) – Cameron, Lone Star
	St. Matthews	63.0	101.4	US 601 (Harry C. Raysor Drive) – Orangeburg, Eastover
		66.4	106.9	US 176 east (Old State Road) – Cameron	South end of concurrency with US 176
		66.9	107.7	US 176 west (Old State Road) – Sandy Run	North end of concurrency with US 176
		70.2	113.0	I-26 – Columbia, Orangeburg	Partial cloverleaf interchange; I-26 Exit 136
		71.6	115.2	US 21 south (Columbia Road) – Orangeburg	South end of concurrency with US 21
		73.3	118.0	US 21 north (Columbia Road) – Sandy Run	North end of concurrency with US 21
Lexington	Swansea	84.2	135.5	US 321 (Church Street) to SC 692 (5th Street) – Woodford, Gaston, North	Brief <0.1 mile concurrency
	Edmund	94.3	151.8	SC 302 south (Edmund Highway) – Pelion	South end of concurrency with SC 302
		95.9	154.3	SC 302 north (Edmund Highway) – South Congaree	North end of concurrency with SC 302
	Red Bank	99.5	160.1	SC 602 east (Platt Springs Road) – South Congaree, Springdale	Western terminus of SC 602
	Lexington	103.2	166.1	I-20 – North Augusta, Columbia	Partial cloverleaf interchange; I-20 Exit 55
		104.9	168.8	US 1 (Main Street) – Batesburg-Leesville
		105.6	169.9	US 378 west (Columbia Avenue) – Saluda	South end of concurrency with US 378
		105.9	170.4	US 378 east (Sunset Boulevard) – Columbia	North end of concurrency with US 378
Richland	Lake Murray	111.0	178.6	SC 60 east (Lake Murray Boulevard) – Irmo	Western terminus of SC 60
	Ballentine	115.6	186.0	US 76 (Dutch Fork Road) – Chapin, Columbia	Northern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus

References

• Rand McNally: The Road Atlas 2002, Rand McNally and Company 2001 ISBN 0-528-84446-6

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to South Carolina Highway 6.

• Southeastroads.com web page on South Carolina state highways
• South Carolina Department of Transportation county road maps for Berkeley, Orangeburg, Calhoun, Lexington, and Richland (Adobe Acrobat reader required for maps; enlargement of maps necessary for legibility)
• South Carolina Department of Transportation map of hurricane evacuation routes (Adobe Acrobat reader required for map)