Florida State Road 121

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Florida State Road 121 is a major state highway that runs north and south in northern Florida. The road is actually part of a long multi-state route that also goes through Georgia and South Carolina. Some see it as a de-facto auxiliary route from U.S. Route 21 in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Efforts to have the road upgraded to such status have failed however.

Beginning in Lebanon Junction at an at-grade interchange with US 19-98 and Levy County Road 336(LCR 336 secretly joins US 19-98 north through Otter Creek), SR 121 runs through Goethe State Forest where it turns east and intersects with Levy CR 337. The road makes a sharp left curve to the northeast where it runs through desolate farmland with the only resembleance to a major intersection is Levy CR 326. Within the City of Williston, SR 121 overlaps Levy CR 316, until the intersection with US 41. It then joins US 41 as LCR 316 continues eastward, which then joins the east end of ALT US 27, and then the US 27-41 concurrency before breaking away to the northeast again, taking the DeSoto Trail away from US 41.

North of Levy CR 335, SR 121 hugs the west side of the Levy-Marion County Line, but never crosses it, choosing to enter Alachua County instead. Immediately after the interchange with Interstate 75(Exit 382), SR 121 makes a sharp left onto Northwest 34th Street as SR 331 becomes the designation for Williston Road. As it crosses SR 24 it borders the University of Florida to the east until crossing SR 26A and then SR 26. North of US 441, the DeSoto Trail breaks away.

After the intersection with CR 236 in Santa Fe, SR 121 is carried along bridges across the former Seaboard Coast Line railroad line to Crystal River Nuclear Power Plant and Santa Fe River in Worthington Springs, where it intersects with SR 18.

Briefly running parallel to SR 100 in Lake Butler, it intersects with SR 100 as it continues northeast. The road also intersects SR 16 in Railford. and Interstate 10(Exit 335) and US 90 in Macclenny close to SR 228 before crossing the Georgia border on its way to South Carolina.