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Barrancas Avenue begins at a triple intersection with West [[Garden Street]] and [[D Street]]. From there it travels southwesterly, diagonally traversing the street grid. West of its intersection with [[Pace Boulevard]], Barrancas carries [[Florida State Road 292]]. After traversing [[Bayou Chico]] via the [[Bayou Chico Bridge]], Barrancas continues southwesterly, bordering the [[Pensacola Country Club]]. Barrancas Avenue's western terminus is at [[Navy Boulevard]]; west of Navy the thoroughfare (and Florida State Road 292) continues as [[Gulf Beach Highway]].
Prior to the construction of the new Bayou Chico Bridge in the late 1990s, the portion of Barrancas near Bayou Chico Avenue followed a slightly different coursefrom its intersection with Pace Boulevard, crossing the bayou to via the southeastold Bayou Chico drawbridge, located where [[Pace Boulevard]] currently terminates. This span portion of what was Barrancas Avenue still exists and is signed [[Old Barrancas Avenue]].
==Street origin==
Barrancas Avenue was not part of Pensacola's original street grid. In 1907, the [[Maxent Land Company]] offered to donate the necessary land if the City was willing to construct a road between [[Garden Street]] to and [[Bayou Chico]], in order to connect with a road which Escambia County was constructingon the other side of the bayou. The City accepted, and created Barrancas Avenue by ordinance on [[June 11]], [[1907]].
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