Special routes of U.S. Route 23

was a business route of US 23 that existed completely within the city limits of Hazlehurst, Georgia.

[7][2] Major intersections The entire route was in Hazlehurst, Jeff Davis County.

The highway crosses a railroad bridge over a Southern Railway line and becomes Southeast Second Street, traveling through the grounds of the Middle Georgia State University Cochran Campus.

The vicinity is also the site of the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)-listed Cochran Municipal Building and School and the Bleckley County Courthouse.

Between East Ash Street and East Railroad Avenue, the highway curves to the northeast with that same Southern Railway line earlier flanking the west side, although the tracks begin to move away from the road north of unmarked Emergency Route 105.

), established in 1974, is a 3.9-mile (6.3 km) route goes through downtown Dillsboro and Sylva, North Carolina, via Haywood Road, Main Street/Mill Street, and Asheville Highway.

In its short history, it was utilized simply as a connector route to a completed section of Interstate 40 (I-40), west of Asheville.

Starting at the exit 9 interchange from I-26/US 23, it briefly links with US 19 before taking a left turn toward Tennessee.

is a 16-mile (26 km) business route of US 23 between Big Stone Gap and Norton, Virginia.

and State Route 844 (SR 844), the former of which joins US 23 in an overlap until it reaches Norton northbound US 23 Bus.

turns west, ending the concurrency, and the name changes to East 5th Street North.

The route crosses a bridge over the Powell River then after passing a local car dealership across from East 5th Avenue becomes Roaring Branch Road.

Most of this mountainous road winds around the Powell River, Norfolk Southern Railway's Appalachia District, and an abandoned Louisville and Nashville Railroad line currently in the process of being converted into a rail trail.

The route turns more towards the east as it enters Appalachia, where it is renamed West Main Street, and serves as the eastern terminus for SR 68.

The road name is changed to East Main Street after the southern terminus of SR 78 a bridge over Norfolk Southern Railway's Clinch Valley Extension, and then follows the rest of the line east.

East of SR 621, the route officially enters Norton, and the street is named Park Avenue Northwest.

East of SR 74, the routes climb an embankment and becomes a divided highway, though the US 23 Bus./US 58 Alt.

continues east straight ahead along unmarked SR 283 (Norton Coeburn Road) while US 23 and Park Avenue Northeast make a sharp turn to the north.

From this point on, the route is a two-lane highway with a continuous center left-turn lane, winding around the west side of the Guest River, and Norfolk Southern Railway's Glamorgan Branch.

Snaking closer to the railroad and the river, it leaves the Norton city limits at the intersection with SR 620 and the Glamorgan Branch at the same time, just before crossing a bridge over the Guest River where the street is named Esserville Road.

The route follows the Ben Williamson and Simeon Willis memorial bridges across the Ohio River as a one-way pair.

The designation becomes State Route 652 (SR 652) upon entering Ohio and becomes a pair of city streets when the bridges end close to US 23 Bus.

The route overlaps KY 8 and KY 8S to the Carl Perkins Bridge where it then overlaps SR 852 until it turns east along US 52 in Ohio and finally terminates in downtown Portsmouth at US 23 along a one-way pair of southbound Chillicothe Street and northbound Gay Street.

Three Locks Road becomes South River Road, taking US 23/SR 104 with it as the route runs parallel to Norfolk Southern Railway's Columbus District until it passes the intersection with Southern Avenue and curves away from the tracks before entering the city limits.

Curving in a northeasterly direction, the route passes under CSX Transportation's Northern Subdivision.

terminates at another interchange with mainline US 23, while SR 159 continues northward toward the Lancaster area.

US 23A near Mars Hill
US 23 Bus./US 58 Bus./US 421 Bus. in Gate City
US 23 Bus. southbound at SR 610 just southwest of Norton
US 23 Bus. northbound at SR 640 in Wise
View north along US 23 Bus. just south of Pound