Florida State Road 16

County Road 16A
County Road 16A
Location	St. Johns
Length	7.350 mi (11.829 km)

Kingsley Lake
Kingsley Lake
Length	1.508 mi (2.427 km)

FDOT
FDOT
Length	63.616 mi (102.380 km)
Major junctions
West end	SR 121 in Raiford
	US 301 in Starke; US 17 in Green Cove Springs; I-95 near World Golf Village;
East end	; US 1 Bus. in St. Augustine
Location
Country	United States
State	Florida
Counties	Union, Bradford, Clay, St. Johns
Highway system
	Florida State Highway System; Interstate; US; State Former; Pre‑1945; ; Toll; Scenic;

State Road 16 (SR 16) runs from northwest to southeast between Raiford and St. Augustine. It passes through the towns of Starke and Green Cove Springs in addition to providing access to Camp Blanding. Major roads and/or highways that SR 16 crosses include: US 301, SR 21, US 17, SR 13, Interstate 95 and US 1.

Route description

The route begins at Florida State Road 121 in Raiford and runs straight east. After passing the Union Correctional Institute, and a furniture factory across from a forest, it curves southeast to cross a bridge over the New River, thus crossing the Union-Bradford County Line. From there it runs between the Florida State Prison and New River Correctional Institute, and remains at this general trajectory until it reaches Starke.

After passing under the diamond interchange with

CSX Wildwood Subdivision then four blocks later, curves directly east once again. Leaving the city, the road bends slightly to the northeast and later crosses the Bradford-Clay County Line where it then encounters a sharp left curve to the north at a wye intersection with the eastern terminus of SR 230, only to curve back straight east again, where it has another intersection with the southern terminus of CR 225. These sharp curves are around the northwest shores of Kingsley Lake, and then the vicinity of Camp Blanding. The southwestern terminus of CR 215 provides a shortcut towards Jacksonville, but the main road leading to that city is found later as SR 21

, north of Belmore.

East of SR 21, the road passes by the historic town of

CSX Sanford Subdivision and the Clay County Historical Museum, then makes a sharp turn to the south at US 17

, sharing an overlap with that route until the Leonard C Taylor Parkway, where it leaves US 17 and returns to the east.

SR 16 crosses the St. Johns River using the Shands Bridge. This bridge connects Clay and St. Johns Counties. The Shands is often considered an emergency alternative to the Buckman Bridge that is farther north. The difference between both bridges is that the Buckman, which carries Interstate 295, has eight lanes while the Shands has only two lanes. The Shands Bridge is expected to be retired and replaced with a wider bridge in the future as part of the First Coast Expressway project.

US 1 Business

in St. Augustine

After the bridge, the road has a wye intersection with

US Business Route 1

).

Major intersections

County	Location	mi^[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
Union	Raiford	0.000	0.000	SR 121 – Lake Butler, Macclenny, Gainesville
Union		1.460	2.350	CR 199 north
CR 225
	CR 229A west
		8.239	13.259	CR 233
	SR 223) – Ocala, Baldwin	Interchange
		11.505	18.516	CR 229 north
		11.789	18.973	US 301 (SR 200) to SR 100 – Lawtey, Waldo, Ocala
Clay	Kingsley Village	17.611	28.342	SR 230 west
	Kingsley Village	18.113	29.150	Kingsley Lake Drive ( CR 16A east)
		18.830	30.304	CR 225 north – Lawtey
	CR 16A west)
		21.130	34.005	CR 215 north – Middleburg, Jacksonville
		25.817	41.548	Gold Head Branch State Park
	CR 218 west – Middleburg
				SR 23 (First Coast Expressway)	Future planned interchange
		35.361	56.908	CR 315 south (Springbank Road)	west end of CR 315 overlap
		35.858	57.708	CR 315 north	east end of CR 315 overlap
		36.618	58.931	CR 315A north
		36.732	59.114	CR 16A east
		37.119	59.737	CR 16A east (Randall Road)
		37.368	60.138	CR 16A (Randall Road)
	CR 15A south)
		39.104	62.932	US 17 north (Orange Avenue / SR 15) – Jacksonville	west end of US 17 overlap
		39.734	63.946	US 17 south (SR 15) – Palatka	east end of US 17 overlap
St. Johns River		42.735– 43.997	68.775– 70.806	Shands Bridge
St. Johns		45.040	72.485	SR 13 north – Jacksonville	west end of SR 13 overlap
	CR 13 south – Hastings	east end of SR 13 overlap
		50.699	81.592	CR 16A west
	CR 13A south (Pacetti Road) / International Golf Parkway – World Golf Village
		58.011	93.360	CR 208 west – St. Johns County Agricultural Center
		58.17	93.62	Miami	I-95 exit 318
		63.118	101.579	CR 16A north (Lewis Speedway Road)
	Historic Downtown St. Augustine
	Historic Downtown St. Augustine	63.616	102.380	Downtown St. Augustine, Vilano Beach
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus Unopened

Related routes

Clay County

CR 16A is a county road in

Kingsley Lake.^[2]

St. Johns County

CR 16A is a county road in

County Road 210 afterwards it continues until its end at SR 16 near World Golf Village. It is the older alignment of SR 16, ending at SR 13 at the Old Shands Bridge pier.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b FDOT straight line diagrams Archived March 6, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, accessed February 2014
^ ^a ^b ^c "County Roads TDA". FDOT. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
^ Google. "CR 16A" (Map). Google Maps. Google.

External links

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[sld-1] FDOT straight line diagrams Archived March 6, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, accessed February 2014

[FDOT_CR_GIS-2] "County Roads TDA". FDOT. Retrieved January 12, 2020.

[GM_CR_16A_SJ-3] Google. "CR 16A" (Map). Google Maps. Google.

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