U.S. Route 17 in Florida
Coastal Highway | ||||
Route information | ||||
Maintained by FDOT | ||||
Length | 317.070 mi[1][2] (510.275 km) | |||
Major junctions | ||||
South end | US 41 in Punta Gorda | |||
North end | St. Mary's, GA | |||
Location | ||||
Country | United States | |||
State | Florida | |||
Counties | Charlotte, DeSoto, Hardee, Polk, Osceola, Orange, Seminole, Volusia, Putnam, Clay, Duval, Nassau | |||
Highway system | ||||
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U.S. Highway 17 (US 17) in
As is the case with all Florida roads with American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) route numbers, the entirety of US 17 has a hidden Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) designation:
- State Road 35 (SR 35) from the route's terminus at US 41 in Punta Gorda to East Main Street in Bartow.
- State Road 555 (SR 555) from East Main Street in Bartow to SR 600 in Lake Alfred.
- SR 600 from Lake Alfred to DeLand along the course of the route's cosigning with US 92.
- SR 15 from the intersection with SR 50 and US 17/US 92/SR 15 south in Orlando to the Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway interchange in Jacksonville.
- SR 5 from the Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway interchange in Jacksonville to the Georgia state line over the St. Marys River.
Concurrencies include US 98 between Fort Meade and Bartow, and a notably long one with US 92 between Lake Alfred and northern DeLand, which itself includes concurrencies with US 192 in Kissimmee, US 441 between Kissimmee and Orlando, SR 50 in Orlando, and SR 46 in Sanford. Others include SR 20/SR 100 between San Mateo and Palatka and Interstate 10 (I-10), I-95, US 23, and US 1 in Downtown Jacksonville in that order.
Route description
Punta Gorda through Winter Haven
US 17 begins in downtown Punta Gorda at US 41 (Tamiami Trail). From here, it proceeds east as a pair of one-way streets along Marion and Olympia avenues. Once outside of the Punta Gorda city limits, the one-way streets rejoin each other becoming a six-lane highway. From here, it is briefly elevated over the Seminole Gulf Railway and city streets before intersecting with I-75 at exit 164 in Solana. After a brief jog east, it travels roughly northeast along the Peace River into DeSoto County, where it goes through Fort Ogden, Nocatee, and Arcadia. It splits into one-way streets again through Arcadia, where it intersects SR 70. Once out of Arcadia, it continues northeast into Hardee County. Here, it returns to a four lane divided highway with a 65-mile-per-hour (105 km/h) speed limit. It continues to the cities of Zolfo Springs (where it crosses the Peace River) and Wauchula. At Fort Meade, it joins with US 98, which follows it northward (westward on US 98) until Bartow. While US 98 goes northwest, US 17 goes northeast.
In the city of Bartow, US 17 is known as Spessard Holland Parkway, named after
Concurrency with US 92
US 17 and
After crossing into
Due to its proximity with Walt Disney World and affiliated resorts as well as SeaWorld Orlando, Universal Orlando, and others, US 17/US 92/US 441 intersects many toll roads between Kissimmee and Orlando, the first of which is the partially tolled and partial limited-access Osceola Parkway in Kissimmee. Immediately after this in Orlando is SR 417 (Central Florida GreeneWay) at exit 11. North of here, the Central Florida Parkway leads to SeaWorld Orlando. Neither of these intersections or interchanges, however, compare to the combined interchanges of Florida's Turnpike and SR 528 (Beachline Expressway), in Sky Lake, which contains a series of convoluted partial cloverleaf interchanges and partial ramps from side roads. North of this interchange, the road passes west of The Florida Mall and intersects SR 482.
The first interchange with I-4 is at exit 80 in Holden Heights. Eastbound access from I-4 comes from partial cloverleaf ramps, and westbound access comes from a left-turn ramp between the two carriageways that runs under the eastbound lane and merges with the east to southbound ramp before merging with southbound OBT. The interchange provides no south to east access and no west to north access, but such access can found from the intersection with West Michigan Street. Further north, the road heads into Orlando and comes to the interchange with SR 408 (East–West Tollway) at exit 9, which is a diamond interchange. After curving around Givens Street and Springdale Road, both of which can only be accessed from West Concord Street, OBT moves closer to a parallel railroad freight line and meets the intersection of SR 50 (Colonial Drive) northwest of downtown. At SR 50, US 17/US 92 turns east onto a new concurrency, taking hidden SR 600 with it, while US 441 continues northwest on OBT toward Apopka. US 17/US 92/SR 50 meets the south end of SR 424 (Edgewater Drive) and crosses under I-4 at a second interchange (exits 83A east and exit 84 west) and SR 527 (Orange Avenue southbound and Magnolia Avenue northbound) before meeting SR 15 (Mills Avenue), where US 17/US 92 turns north. Mills Avenue carries SR 15 on both sides of SR 50 but is only signed as such to the south, as, north of SR 50, it carries US 17/US 92 (and unsigned SR 600). It crosses Lake Estelle on the Andrews Causeway before reaching the border between Orlando and Winter Park.
In
DeLand and points north
In the city of
In
Here, the highway goes past Naval Air Station Jacksonville (NAS Jax). Near downtown Jacksonville, US 17 joins I-10 for approximately one mile (1.6 km), before merging into I-95. US 17 then exits onto US 23 and continues as North Main Street along with US 1 until it reaches the Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway then continues on its own through Northside where it crosses the Trout River only to pass through less urban surroundings before it crosses the Nassau County
In Nassau County, US 17 enters
History
US 17 was one of the original routes of the
From 1956, signs for U.S. Highways in Florida had different colors for each highway. The "shield" for US 17 was yellow until the state was forced by the federal government to conform to standards that required consistent black-and-white signs in 1993.
In 1980, US 17 was realigned and elevated slightly at the southern end in Punta Gorda to accommodate the construction of I-75, which also included splitting the route into the current one-way pairs along Marion Street and Olympia Avenue. The route formerly continued along Marion Avenue to Florida Street and Dundee Road. Since then, US 17 has been incrementally widened to a divided highway with four or more lanes through Charlotte, DeSoto, and Hardee counties.[8] Much of the widening has incorporated a parallel abandoned Florida Southern Railway/Atlantic Coast Line Railroad corridor between Bowling Green and Arcadia, which was removed in the early 1980s. Today, the northbound one-way segment through Wauchula runs along this former rail corridor as well as the southbound one-way segment through Arcadia.[9] In 2006, a short segment was realigned to the east along this rail corridor just north of Arcadia, bypassing Brownville. The former alignment is now known as Cubitis Avenue.[10] Another segment through Zolfo Springs was realigned to the former railroad corridor in early 2018. Main Street in Zolfo Springs is the previous alignment of this segment of US 17.[11]
In 1994, the original Lake Monroe Bridge over the St. Johns River near Sanford, which was built in 1933 along with this segment of US 17, was replaced with the current four-lane Bill Benedict Bridge. The swing span of the original bridge has been preserved and now serves as a pier next to the current bridge.[12]
On August 13, 2004, Hurricane Charley made landfall just before 4:00 pm near the southern terminus of US 17. Incredibly, Charley would either hit or threaten to hit the entire route of US 17, devastating almost the entire route in Florida, at least from Punta Gorda to well north of Orlando (when Charley followed the route of I-4 out to sea). The Georgia stretch of US 17 was not hit but was under a hurricane warning. When Charley made landfall again in South Carolina, its trail all the way through Virginia was close to the route of US 17.
In late 2013, FDOT began an $80-million (equivalent to $103 million in 2023[13]) project to construct a flyover interchange with US 17/US 92 traveling over SR 436 in Casselberry.[14] This interchange was built to alleviate congestion at one of the busiest intersections in Florida. The flyover interchange was completed on April 6, 2015, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony held.[15]
Future
This section needs to be updated.(April 2023) |
US 17 is currently being widened from the Hardee–DeSoto county line to Sweetwater Road in southern Hardee County, which will be completed in summer of 2018. Upon completion of this project, US 17 will be at least four lanes continuously from the terminus in Punta Gorda to Haines City.[8]
Major intersections
County | Location | mi[1] | km | Destinations | Notes | ||
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SR 45) – Fort Myers | One way street; southern terminus of US 17; SB lanes continue west as Marion Avenue; Olympia Avenue feeds into NB lanes | ||||||
0.184 | 0.296 | SR 45 north) – Port Charlotte | One-way street | ||||
I-75 exit 164 | |||||||
| 3.436 | 5.530 | CR 74 east (Bermont Road) – Palmdale | ||||
| 6.425 | 10.340 | CR 764 (Washington Loop Road) | ||||
| 8.098 | 13.032 | CR 764 (Washington Loop Road) | ||||
CR 761 west | |||||||
CR 760A east | |||||||
21.117 | 33.985 | CR 760 west | |||||
Ft. Pierce | |||||||
25.320 | 40.749 | SR 70 west (Hickory Street) – Bradenton | |||||
CR 660 (Moore Avenue) | Continues west as Northeast McKay Street | ||||||
| 30.243 | 48.671 | CR 660 (NE McIntyre Street) | ||||
| 33.860 | 54.492 | Cubitis Avenue | former US 17 (prior to 2006) | |||
CR 634 east) | |||||||
Zolfo Springs | 45.169 | 72.692 | SR 66 east – Okeechobee, West Palm Beach | ||||
45.650 | 73.467 | SR 64 – Ona, Avon Park | |||||
Peace River | Doyle E. Carlton Bridge | ||||||
Wauchula | 49.059 | 78.953 | SR 636 east (Main Street) – Avon Park | ||||
| 52.370 | 84.281 | SR 62 west – Parrish | ||||
Paynes Creek Historical State Park | |||||||
south end of US 98 / SR 700 overlap | |||||||
SR 60 Business | |||||||
74.369 | 119.685 | north end of US 98 / SR 700 overlap; access to Bartow Regional Medical Center | |||||
75.839 | 122.051 | To US 98 / Ernest M. Smith Boulevard | north bypass of Bartow | ||||
| 79.294 | 127.611 | Bomber Road ( CR 559 ) | ||||
Eagle Lake | 82.124 | 132.166 | SR 540 west to SR 655 | ||||
SR 655 north) – Auburndale, Wahneta | |||||||
Winter Haven | 83.706 | 134.712 | SR 540 east (Cypress Gardens Boulevard) – Legoland | ||||
82.021 | 132.000 | To Central Avenue West east / Downtown Winter Haven | |||||
85.265 | 137.221 | CR 542 west (Avenue D Northwest) | |||||
86.531 | 139.258 | SR 544 (Avenue T Northwest / Havendale Boulevard) – Auburndale, Lucerne Park, Polk State College | |||||
SR 555 overlap; south end of US 92 / SR 600 overlap | |||||||
88.863 | 143.011 | CR 555 north (South Buena Vista Drive) | southbound access only | ||||
90.074 | 144.960 | CR 557 north (East Pomelo Street / North Buena Vista Drive) to I-4 | |||||
interchange | |||||||
96.600 | 155.463 | 5th Street North ( CR 17 ) | |||||
96.848 | 155.862 | SR 17 south (10th Street South) – Lake Hamilton | |||||
97.658 | 157.165 | CR 580 east (Johnson Avenue East) | |||||
CR 547 (Davenport Boulevard) to US 27 | |||||||
| 106.964 | 172.142 | |||||
CR 532 west (Osceola-Polk Line Road) to I-4 | |||||||
Poinciana | |||||||
CR 535 south) | |||||||
Poinciana | |||||||
Downtown Kissimmee, Historic District | Former section of US 17 / US 92 / SR 500 / SR 600 overlap | ||||||
119.058 | 191.605 | John Young Parkway) / to Osceola Parkway | south end of US 192 / SR 530 overlap | ||||
119.809 | 192.814 | Downtown Kissimmee | north end of US 192 / SR 530 overlap; south end of US 441 / SR 500 overlap | ||||
see US 441 (mile 229.899-247.086) | |||||||
north end of US 441 / SR 500 overlap; south end of SR 50 overlap | |||||||
137.79 | 221.75 | SR 400) to SR 408 | I-4 exit 83A/84 no access from US 17 south to I-4 east (use SR 527 north) | ||||
137.992 | 222.077 | SR 527 south (Orange Avenue) | |||||
138.131 | 222.300 | SR 527 north (North Magnolia Avenue) to I-4 | |||||
138.894 | 223.528 | SR 15 south (Mills Avenue) / SR 50 east (Colonial Drive) to SR 408 | north end of SR 50 overlap; south end of SR 15 overlap | ||||
140.077 | 225.432 | To Princeton Street | |||||
Business District | |||||||
141.645 | 227.956 | SR 426 (Fairbanks Avenue) to I-4 | |||||
142.533 | 229.385 | US 92 Truck east (Lee Road) to I-4 | |||||
Eatonville | |||||||
143.659 | 231.197 | Maitland Avenue ( CR 427 north) | |||||
144.782 | 233.004 | US 92 Truck west (Maitland Boulevard) to I-4 | interchange | ||||
Seminole | Casselberry | 146.725 | 236.131 | SR 436 to I-4 – Altamonte Springs, Apopka | interchange | ||
Longwood | 149.487 | 240.576 | SR 434 to I-4 – Longwood, Winter Springs | ||||
Winter Springs | 152.065 | 244.725 | SR 419 south – Winter Springs, Oviedo | ||||
CR 427 (Ronald Reagan Boulevard) | |||||||
Orlando-Sanford International Airport | |||||||
155.45 | 250.17 | Orlando-Sanford International Airport | SR 417 exit 50 | ||||
156.623 | 252.060 | Orlando-Sanford International Airport | south end of SR 46 overlap | ||||
157.580 | 253.600 | CR 415 north (13th Street) | |||||
158.347 | 254.835 | North French Avenue (former US 17/92 north) – Old Lake Monroe Pier 1st Street East – Business District | Former north end US 17 north / US 92 east / SR 46 overlap[16] | ||||
| 161.738 | 260.292 | Mt. Dora, Lake Mary | north end of SR 46 overlap | |||
| Orange Blvd ( CR 431 west) – Port of Sanford | ||||||
| 161.88 | 260.52 | SR 400) – Orlando | I-4 exit 104 | |||
C.A. "Bill" Benedict Bridge | |||||||
Gemini Springs | |||||||
CR 4146 east (Saxon Boulevard) to I-4 | |||||||
CR 4156) – Deltona, Enterprise | |||||||
170.187 | 273.889 | CR 4145 east (Graves Avenue) | |||||
171.93 | 276.69 | SR 472 east to I-4 – Sanford, Orlando | interchange | ||||
CR 4116 (Orange Camp Road / McGregor Road) – Lake Helen | |||||||
173.683 | 279.516 | SR 44 west | |||||
175.685 | 282.738 | SR 44 (New York Avenue) – Eustis, New Smyrna Beach | |||||
177.533 | 285.712 | SR 600) – Daytona Beach | north end of US 92 / SR 600 overlap | ||||
| 178.731 | 287.640 | Glenwood | ||||
| 180.357 | 290.256 | SR 44 west | ||||
Glenwood, Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge | |||||||
183.324 | 295.031 | CR 3 north (Ponce Deleon Boulevard) – De Leon Springs State Park | |||||
Barberville | 189.703 | 305.297 | SR 40 – Silver Springs, Ormond Beach | ||||
CR 3 south – Lake George Wildlife Management Area | |||||||
CR 305 east – Bunnell | |||||||
CR 308B west (West Main Street) – Welaka | |||||||
CR 309 south – Welaka, Welaka State Forest | |||||||
| 223.7 | 360.0 | Dunns Creek | ||||
SR 20 east) – Bunnell | south end of SR 20 / SR 100 overlap | ||||||
East Palatka | 229.925 | 370.028 | SR 207 north – Hastings, St. Augustine | ||||
| 231.6 | 372.7 | Memorial Bridge over St. Johns River | ||||
Palatka | 232.577 | 374.296 | SR 20 west (9th Street) – Interlachen, Ravine Gardens State Park | north end of SR 20 overlap | |||
233.772 | 376.220 | SR 20 west | north end of SR 100 overlap | ||||
234.836 | 377.932 | SR 20 west | |||||
CR 216 west | |||||||
| 238.216 | 383.371 | CR 209 north | ||||
CR 209 south (Palmetto Bluff Road) | |||||||
CR 214 west (Sungarden Road) | |||||||
| 248.207 | 399.450 | CR 214 east (Decoy Road) | ||||
CR 226 east | |||||||
| 254.030 | 408.822 | CR 15A north | ||||
| SR 23 (First Coast Expressway) | Future planned interchange | |||||
| 256.236 | 412.372 | CR 209 south | ||||
Green Cove Springs | 257.846 | 414.963 | SR 16 east – St. Augustine | south end of SR 16 overlap | |||
258.476 | 415.977 | SR 16 west (Ferris Street) – Penney Farms, Starke | north end of SR 16 overlap | ||||
| 261.300 | 420.522 | CR 315 west | ||||
| 261.889 | 421.469 | CR 209 west | ||||
| 261.988 | 421.629 | CR 209 east | ||||
CR 15A (Hibernia Road) | |||||||
266.737 | 429.272 | ||||||
268.019 | 431.335 | CR 15B (Raggedy Point Road) | |||||
269.165 | 433.179 | CR 15A (Westover Road) | |||||
Orange Park | 271.126 | 436.335 | SR 224 west (Kingsley Avenue) | ||||
Savannah | I-295 exit 10 | ||||||
276.948 | 445.705 | Cecil Field | |||||
277.048 | 445.866 | Ortega Boulevard | former SR 211 north | ||||
279.804 | 450.301 | SR 128 (San Juan Avenue) to I-10 | |||||
280.655 | 451.670 | Park Street east – FSCJ Kent Campus | |||||
280.77 | 451.86 | SR 21 south (Blanding Boulevard) | interchange; no northbound exit | ||||
281.76 | 453.45 | Edgewood Avenue | interchange | ||||
282.060 | 453.932 | To SR 15 north | |||||
282.275 | 454.278 | SR 129 north / SR 228 west (McDuff Avenue) | south end of SR 228 overlap | ||||
283.117 | 455.633 | I-10 west (SR 8) to I-295 – Lake City | south end of I-10 / SR 8 overlap (US 17 follows exit 361); southbound exit and northbound entrance | ||||
283.61 | 456.43 | Stockton Street – Riverside | I-10 exit 362 (northbound); I-95 exit 351C (southbound) | ||||
284.062 SR 9) – Jacksonville Beaches, Daytona Beach north end of I-10 / SR 8 overlap; south end of I-95 / SR 9 overlap (US 17 takes exit 352D/351B) | | ||||||
284.4 | 457.7 | Forest Street / Riverside Avenue – Convention Center | I-95 exit 352A | ||||
285.0 | 458.7 | Forsyth Street – Convention Center | I-95 exit 352B (northbound exit and southbound entrance) | ||||
285.2 | 459.0 | Monroe Street – Downtown | I-95 exit 352C (no southbound exit) | ||||
285.3 | 459.1 | Church Street, Myrtle Avenue, Forsyth Street | I-95 exit 353A (southbound exit only) | ||||
285.5 SR 139 )north end of I-95 / SR 9 / SR 15 overlap (US 17 follows exit 353C); south end of US 23 / SR 139 overlap | | ||||||
285.577 | 459.592 | To I-95 / US 90 (Beaver Street) / North Davis Street | |||||
286.169 | 460.544 | US 90 Alt. west (North Laura Street) | |||||
286.263 | 460.696 | SR 10A east) | north end of US 23 / SR 139 / SR 228 overlap; south end of US 1 / SR 5 overlap | ||||
287.344 | 462.435 | To SR 114 | |||||
288.08 | 463.62 | SR 115) to I-95 | north end of US 1 overlap | ||||
288.391 | 464.120 | SR 122 west (27th Street) | |||||
289.761 | 466.325 | SR 111 south (Tallulah Avenue) | |||||
291.673 | 469.402 | SR 105 north (Zoo Parkway) to I-95 | interchange | ||||
292.111 | 470.107 | To I-95 south / Clark Road | |||||
293.264 | 471.963 | SR 163 south | |||||
295.22 | 475.11 | I-295 (SR 9A) to I-95 | |||||
296.520 | 477.203 | Airport Center Drive – SR 102 | |||||
297.590 | 478.925 | To I-95 / Duval Road | former SR 110 west | ||||
299.488 | 481.979 | To I-95 / Pecan Park Road | |||||
Fernandina | |||||||
CR 108 west – Hilliard | |||||||
Savannah | I-95 exit 380 | ||||||
Georgia line | |||||||
US 17 north (SR 25 north) – Kingsland, Brunswick | Continuation into Georgia | ||||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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See also
- U.S. Roads portal
- Florida portal
References
- ^ a b FDOT straight line diagrams, accessed January 2014
- ^ a b c FDOT GIS data, accessed January 2014
- ^ "U.S. 17 North - Punta Gorda to Lake Alfred". AA Roads. Retrieved September 2, 2016.[self-published source]
- ^ "Google Map of U.S. Route 17 in Eagle Lake, Florida". Google Maps. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
- ^ "US 17-92 Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA)". City of Winter Springs, Florida. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
- ^ "Welcome to the Palatka Railroad Preservation Society". Palatka Railroad Preservation Society. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
- ^ "End of US highway 17". U.S. Ends. Archived from the original on August 28, 2016. Retrieved August 26, 2016.[self-published source]
- ^ a b "US 17 Corridor Projects". Florida Department of Transportation. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
- ^ "Abandoned Railroad Rights-of-way". Google. Retrieved October 4, 2018.
- ^ "U.S. Highway 17". AA Roads. Retrieved September 6, 2016.[self-published source]
- ^ "Zolfo Springs Downtown Vision Plan" (PDF). Central Florida Regional Planning Council. Retrieved May 6, 2018.
- ^ "Lake Monroe Bridge". Bridge Hunters. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
- Gross Domestic Product deflatorfigures follow the MeasuringWorth series.
- ^ "Casselberry's State Road 436 and Red Bug Lake Road flyover set to open Saturday". Orlando Sentinel.
- ^ Chavez, Crystal (April 6, 2015). "Ribbon Cutting Monday For New US 17-92 Flyover". WMFE-FM. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). route.transportation.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 4, 2017. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
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