State Route 188 or SR-188 is a 19.686 miles (31.7 km) state highway

State highway

State highway, state road or state route can refer to one of three related concepts, two of them related to a state or provincial government in a country that is divided into states or provinces :#A...

 that serves as an east-west connection through southern Mobile County

Mobile County, Alabama

Mobile County[p] is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. Its name is in honor of a tribe of Indians, the Maubila tribe . As of 2011, its population was 415,704. Its county seat is Mobile, Alabama...

. SR-188 intersects Interstate 10 at its western terminus and SR-193

Alabama State Route 193

State Route 193 or SR-193 is a long route that serves as the primary travel route into Dauphin Island through southern Mobile County. South of its intersection with Laurendine Road, SR-193 is known as Dauphin Island Parkway, with the northern half of Dauphin Island Parkway routed along State...

 at its eastern terminus.

Route description

State Route 188 begins just north of its intersection with I-10 north of Grand Bay. From this point, the route travels in a southerly direction through a brief concurrency

Concurrency (road)

A concurrency, overlap, or coincidence in a road network is an instance of one physical road bearing two or more different highway, motorway, or other route numbers...

 with US-90 before taking a southeasterly course upon leaving Grand Bay. SR-188 continues its southeasterly course just prior to reaching Bayou La Batre

Bayou La Batre, Alabama

Bayou La Batre is a town in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. It is included in the Mobile metropolitan statistical area. At the 2000 census, the population was 2,313. According to the 2005 U.S. Census estimates, the city had a population of 2,725....

where it turns to the south and remains in a north-south orientation. Upon its exit from Bayou La Batre, SR-188 returns to its easterly course through its eastern terminus at SR-193.

Major intersections

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