A long forgotten route, the former route of GA 175 carves a path through Lowndes and Lanier Counties southwest of Lakeland. According to the map, the road remains unpaved to this day as well. In addition, the former highway stretches 12 miles and followed a course along seven different present-day county roads including New Bethel Road (Lowndes C.R. 41), Cooper Rd N.E. (Lowndes C.R. 174), Randall Spells Road, Willie Carter Road , Benny Johnson Road, Shiner Pond Road (all Lanier C.R. 12) and Upper Grand Bay Road (Lowndes C.R. 658).

Not all of GA 175 is still maintained. Parts in Moody A.F.B. may be closed to traffic now and the portion of Willie Carter Road just north of the county line is closed off, though in following the old route the Grand Bay portion is still accessable along Lloyd Johnson Road (Lanier C.R. 147) and Isaac Road (Lanier C.R. 10), the latter which joins the road directly. The Lloyd Johnson detour and the short section of New Bethel Road, by the way, is the only pavement the entire 12 miles. Lloyd Johnson road is the county road crossing Old GA 175 that is seen on most GDOT maps. On the map shown below in the history section, it is the blue line.

Points of interest along the route include Banks Lake, carved out of a swamp held up by a sill that features scenery very similar to the Okeefenokee Swamp to the east. Also found along the route is part of Moody A.F.B.

Originally commissioned in the 1940's, GA 175 proved to be a very short-lived highway. In fact, more than half of GA 175 was decommissioned early on with the westermost part truncated to two miles west of U.S. 221 (originally only GA 31) by 1954 and fully truncated to U.S. 221 by 1956. This westernmost portion consisted of the portion of the road running south of Banks Lake that included present day Lanier C.R. 12 (Benny Johnson Road and Shiner Pond Road) and in Lowndes County, present-day Cooper Road N.E. and a small portion of New Bethel Road.  

GA 175 in 1952 and 1964. Note that the route was truncated to U.S. 221 very early on (1952 and 1964 GHD Maps).

The rest of GA 175, then more of a north-south highway than an east-west highway, lasted for another decade. This section was decommissioned in 1969, consisting of the remainder of Lanier C.R. 12 (Randall Spells and Willie Carter Roads) and Lowndes C.R. 658 (Upper Grand Bay Road).

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