page_title: U.S. Route 33 in Virginia
section_title: Piedmont
hierarchical_section_title: U.S. Route 33 in Virginia / Route description / Piedmont
caption_attribution_description: English: View east along U.S. Route 33 (Jefferson Highway) at Virginia State Route 22 and Virginia State Route 208 (Main Street) in Louisa, Louisa County, Virginia
context_page_description: U.S. Route 33 is a part of the U.S. Highway System that runs from Elkhart, Indiana to Richmond, Virginia. In Virginia, the U.S. Highway runs 135.60 miles from the West Virginia state line near Rawley Springs east to its eastern terminus at SR 33 in Richmond. US 33 is the primary east–west highway of Rockingham County, which lies in the Shenandoah Valley. The highway connects the independent city of Harrisonburg, the town of Elkton, and an entrance to Shenandoah National Park. East of the Blue Ridge Mountains, US 33 connects the Piedmont communities of Stanardsville, Gordonsville, and Louisa. The U.S. Highway is a major suburban and urban route in the Richmond metropolitan area. Within Richmond, US 33 runs concurrently with US 250. SR 33 continues from US 33's eastern terminus as a state-numbered extension of the U.S. Highway that connects Richmond with Virginia's Middle Peninsula.
context_section_description: After cresting the Blue Ridge, US 33 enters Greene County and has a more gentle descent of the eastern side of the mountain, where the highway follows Swift Run to the hamlet of Lydia, then passes around the north side of Powell Mountain and meets the stream again west of Stanardsville, where the road expands to a four-lane divided highway.  US 33 Business (Spotswood Trail) splits to the north to pass through the center of Stanardsville, the county seat of Greene County, while US 33 follows the Stanardsville Bypass.  US 33 Business provides access to SR 230, which heads toward Madison.  US 33 continues southeast through Quinque and intersects US 29 (Seminole Trail) in Ruckersville.
  East of US 29, US 33 reduces to two lanes and enters Orange County.  The highway has a short concurrency with SR 20 (Constitution Highway) through Barboursville, where both highways pass under the Norfolk Southern Railway's Washington District rail line.  US 33 passes through a gap in the Southwest Mountains before reaching Gordonsville.  At the town limit, the U.S. Highway has an intersection with SR 231 (Blue Ridge Turnpike).  US 33 and SR 231 run together a short distance east to the Gordonsville Roundabout, where SR 231 heads southwest as Gordon Avenue toward Cismont and US 33 becomes concurrent with US 15 (James Madison Highway) along Main Street.  The two highways pass the Exchange Hotel at their underpass of the Washington Subdivision, the Charlottesville–Orange rail line owned by the Buckingham Branch Railroad.  At the southern edge of downtown Gordonsville, US 33 and US 15 leave Main Street and veer onto Martinsburg Avenue, which follows CSX's Piedmont Subdivision to the southern limit of Gordonsville, where the highways enter Louisa County.
  US 15 continues south as the James Madison Highway toward Farmville, while US 33 continues paralleling the railroad along Spotswood Trail.  At Trevilians, US 33 becomes concurrent with SR 22 (Louisa Road).  US 33 and SR 22 head into the town of Louisa as Main Street.  On the east side of this county seat, the highways intersect SR 208 (Courthouse Road).  SR 208 joins the two highways for a short distance until the state highways diverge from US 33, following the railroad east along Davis Highway toward Mineral, near the epicenter of the 2011 Virginia earthquake, with US 33 continuing southeast along Jefferson Highway.  The route passes south of Northeast Creek Reservoir before a short concurrency with US 522 in Cuckoo, where US 522 heads north as Pendleton Road toward Mineral and south as Cross County Highway toward Goochland. Continuing eastward, US 33 then approaches the Richmond Metropolitan Area.
caption: US 33 eastbound at SR 22 and SR 208 in Louisa
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