9th Avenue Southwest Bessemer

9th Avenue Southwest Bessemer is a major northeast-southwest route through western Bessemer, a continuation of 9th Avenue North Bessemer, which is also known as Bessemer Super Highway (U.S. Highway 11) leading from Birmingham.

9th Avenue Southwest begins at Somerset Boulevard, west of downtown Bessemer and about a third of a mile northeast of Splash Adventure Parkway.

Notable addresses (northeast to southwest)

avenue extends from 9th Avenue North Bessemer
Somerset Boulevard intersects (south only)
- 651: Bessemer Police Department
Barclay Drive intersects (north only)
- 650: All About People employment agency
- 671: Dollar General
- 679: Bessemer Coin Laundromat
West Lake Circle Southwest intersects (north only)
- 670: Everyday convenience store
- 604 [sic]: Tacos Dos Hermanos / Taqueria Guzman commissary
- 700: Wing It restaurant
Splash Adventure Parkway (north) / Briarwood Drive (south) intersect
Parker Road intersects (south only)
Sharon Drive intersects
- 1020: Bessemer Business Center office building
Monterey Drive intersects (south only)
- 1080: Crossway Baptist Church
- 1088: Bessemer Medical Building (built 1990)
- 1090: West Medical Complex
- 1094: former location of SouthTrust Bank, Wachovia Bank, Lawson State Community College Ready to Work Program (2010)
Shiloh Lane intersects (north only)
Memorial Drive intersects (south only)
Shiloh Lane intersects (north only)
- 995 [sic]: UAB Medical West Medical Center (built 1964 as Memorial Hospital)
- 1100: Lawson State Community College
Medical Center Drive intersects (south only)
Shiloh Lane (north) / Clinic Lane (south) intersect
- 1011: J Wings restaurant
- 1121: former location of Days Inn Bessemer, Knights Inn Bessemer, Studio Inn
- 1130: Bessemer Civic Center
Civic Lane intersects (south only)
avenue ends at Academy Drive
U.S. Highway 11 continues west on Academy Drive to I-65 south