I-16 in Savannah, GA I-26 in Charleston, SC I-40 in Wilmington, NC I-64 in Norfolk, VA US 50 in Salisbury, MD US 40 in Wilmington, DE I-76 in Camden, NJ Ocean Highway was a designation established early in the 20th century for a combination of roadways and water-crossings for motor vehicles which would generally traverse as close as possible to the Atlantic Ocean along the East Coast of the United States from Jacksonville, Florida to North Brunswick, New Jersey.

Continuing into Delaware, the road passed through Dover before coming to Hares Corner, where the Ocean Highway split from US 13 and joined U.S. Route 40.

In North Carolina, side route A ran from the main road in Elizabeth City east to Hatteras Inlet.

For example, for many years, the routing to the north through Virginia after passing the eastern edge of the Dismal Swamp offered a choice.

A westerly track followed U.S. Route 17, passing through Portsmouth and crossing the James River Bridge and the George P. Coleman Memorial Bridge to travel northerly to the west of the Chesapeake Bay, while an eastern alternative used U.S. Route 13 to pass through Norfolk and crossed the Chesapeake Bay via the Little Creek Ferry (replaced by the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel in 1964) to reach Virginia's Eastern Shore, and move north up the Delmarva Peninsula to Maryland and Delaware.