State Route 306 (SR306) is a west-to-east state route located entirely in Forsyth County, Georgia. The route connects Cumming, the county seat in central Forsyth County, with the northeastern portion of the county, which is bordered to the east by Lake Lanier, and Gainesville, located east of the lake in Hall County.

Route description

From its western terminus at SR 20 northwest of Cumming, the route, locally known as Sawnee Drive for this portion, runs west to meet SR 9 just north of downtown Cumming, connecting SR20 and SR9 without having to travel through the heart of Cumming. SR306 and SR9 are then co-signed on their way northeast toward the community of Coal Mountain, before SR306 departs SR9 and travels to the east to its interchange with US 19/SR 400 at exit 17, which is the northernmost interchange of SR400's controlled access portion. SR306 continues northeast, now known as Keith Bridge Road, through northern and northeastern Forsyth County to reach its eastern terminus at SR 53, just west of the northern part of Lake Lanier.

The Georgia Department of Transportation average annual daily traffic (AADT) numbers for the year 2011 show a variety in the daily averages across the route. The Sawnee Drive portion of the route (between SR20 and SR9) saw an average of 5,530 vehicles on a daily basis. The portion of SR306 that is concurrent with SR9 saw an average vehicle count of 12,980 per day in 2011, likely due to thru-traffic on SR9, while the stretch from SR9 to SR400 tallied 7,300 vehicles per day. Further, the portion of the route east of SR400 to SR369 saw 15,690 vehicles per day in 2011, and that tally, combined with the totals seen on SR369, are an indicator of the use of these two routes as feeder routes onto SR400 from the east. Seeing decreasing vehicle load numbers, the stretch from SR369 to Jot Em Down Road tallied 11,480 vehicles, and the final portion to SR53 had a count of 8,010 vehicles per day.

History

The designation of SR306 makes its first appearance on Georgia state highway maps in 1957, and only the stretch from the current eastern end of its concurrency with SR9 (and US19 at the time) to the route's eastern terminus at SR53 was in existence. At the time, the route only crossed one other highway, namely what was then signed as SR141, and which is signed as SR369 today. It was 1966 before the western loop from SR20 to SR9 was completed, and 1977–1978 before the route started to cross the then still-under-construction extension of SR400.

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