U.S. Route 17 in Florida

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U.S. Highway 17 marker

U.S. Highway 17

Coastal Highway
Map
US 17 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by FDOT
Length317.070 mi[1][2] (510.275 km)
Major junctions
South end US 41 in Punta Gorda
Major intersections
North end
St. Mary's, GA
Location
CountryUnited States
StateFlorida
CountiesCharlotte, DeSoto, Hardee, Polk, Osceola, Orange, Seminole, Volusia, Putnam, Clay, Duval, Nassau
Highway system
SR 16 SR 17
SR 553SR 555 SR 559

U.S. Highway 17 (US 17) in

Punta Gorda, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area northeast to the Jacksonville metropolitan area
.

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:

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

Intersection of US 17 and SR 70 in Arcadia

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

County Road 655 (CR 655), which is the southern terminus of SR 655 (South Lake Shipp Road) on the west side. A left turn at this intersection and a right turn onto the parallel Seventh Street Southwest takes motorists to Winter Haven station. US 17/SR 540 goes over the Amtrak line between lakes Shipp and Lulu, both of which go over a canal running between the two lakes. The canal serves as the southern border of Winter Haven. Descending as it passes Chain of Lakes Park, SR 540 leaves US 17 at Cypress Gardens Boulevard to continue eastward, but this intersection is also for Southwest Avenue R, which also leads to Winter Haven station. Between Avenue G Southwest and Avenue C Southwest, US 17 curves to the left from Third Street and then to the right onto Sixth Street. From there, it intersects Central Avenue, which is SR 542 east of US 17. After winding around Spring Lake east of Lake Mirror, the road runs along the west side of Inman Park until it reaches the intersection with SR 544
.

Concurrency with US 92

Older US 17/US 92 markers in Lake Alfred

US 17 and

CR 54) at Loughman
.

After crossing into

SR 530). (US 17 ran through downtown Kissimmee on Emmett Street, Broadway, and Main Street until 1999.) It turns east there on US 192, while John Young Parkway becomes SR 423. When all three meet US 441 at Main Street, US 192 follows US 441 southbound, while US 17/US 92 follows US 441, as well as unsigned SR 500 and SR 600, north into Downtown Orlando
, but not before becoming OBT again at the northern city limits.

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

Benedict Bridge, which replaced the Lake Monroe Bridge
, running parallel to the very Interstate it had just passed under.

DeLand and points north

US 17 in downtown DeLand

In the city of

CR 209
, while US 17 shifts to the northwest.

US 17 in Green Cove Springs

In

CR 220 (Doctor's Inlet Road), which is also the intersection of Bald Eagle Road. Black Creek Trail ends on the bridge over Doctor's Inlet, but US 17 continues to move north into Orange Park, where the road is known as Park Avenue. Besides serving as the eastern terminus of SR 224, it also serves as the location of the Orange Park Kennel Club, just south of the interchange with I-295 which itself serves as the border between Orange Park and Jacksonville, Jacksonville, where the road becomes Roosevelt Boulevard.

US 17 in north Jacksonville

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

border.

In Nassau County, US 17 enters

CR 108 to the west, then a truck weigh station on the east side and finally as it enters the former turpentine making village of Gross, encounters the last interchange with I-95 in the state, a partial cloverleaf interchange on both the northwest and northeast corners of the I-95 bridge over both the road and CSX Transportation's Kingsland Subdivision. More than a mile (1.6 km) after an abandoned motel, as well as a gas station and truck repair shop, US 17 later curves north at a Florida Agricultural Inspection Station and reaches the Georgia border, crossing over the St. Marys River
.

US 17 bridge on the Florida–Georgia border

History

A US 17 shield used in Florida prior to 1993
The original Lake Monroe Bridge over St. Johns River, which carried US 17 (and US 92) from 1933 to 1994

US 17 was one of the original routes of the

U.S. Numbered Highway System, which was established in 1926. It initially terminated in Jacksonville but was extended south through Orlando to Punta Gorda in 1932.[7]

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

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

CountyLocationmi[1]kmDestinationsNotes
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
0.1840.296
SR 45 north) – Port Charlotte
One-way street
SR 93) – Naples, Tampa
I-75 exit 164
3.4365.530
CR 74 east (Bermont Road) – Palmdale
6.42510.340
CR 764
(Washington Loop Road)
8.09813.032
CR 764
(Washington Loop Road)
CR 761
west
CR 760A
east
21.11733.985
CR 760
west
Ft. Pierce
25.32040.749
SR 70 west (Hickory Street) – Bradenton
CR 660
(Moore Avenue)
Continues west as Northeast McKay Street
30.24348.671
CR 660
(NE McIntyre Street)
33.86054.492Cubitis Avenueformer US 17 (prior to 2006)
CR 634
east)
Zolfo Springs45.16972.692
SR 66 east – Okeechobee, West Palm Beach
45.65073.467 SR 64 – Ona, Avon Park
Peace RiverDoyle E. Carlton Bridge
Wauchula49.05978.953
SR 636 east (Main Street) – Avon Park
52.37084.281
SR 62 west – Parrish
Paynes Creek Historical State Park
SR 700 south) – Avon Park, Sebring
south end of US 98 / SR 700 overlap
SR 60 Business
74.369119.685

SR 700 north) to SR 60 – Vero Beach, Lakeland, Tampa, Lake Wales
north end of US 98 / SR 700 overlap; access to Bartow Regional Medical Center
75.839122.051
To US 98 / Ernest M. Smith Boulevard
north bypass of Bartow
79.294127.611Bomber Road (
CR 559
)
Eagle Lake82.124132.166

SR 540 west to SR 655
SR 655 north) – Auburndale, Wahneta
Winter Haven83.706134.712
SR 540 east (Cypress Gardens Boulevard) – Legoland
82.021132.000
To Central Avenue West east /
Downtown Winter Haven
85.265137.221
CR 542
west (Avenue D Northwest)
86.531139.258 SR 544 (Avenue T Northwest / Havendale Boulevard) – Auburndale, Lucerne Park, Polk State College
SR 555
overlap; south end of US 92 / SR 600 overlap
88.863143.011
CR 555
north (South Buena Vista Drive)
southbound access only
90.074144.960

CR 557 north (East Pomelo Street / North Buena Vista Drive) to I-4
SR 25) to I-4 – Ocala, Lake Wales, Sebring
interchange
96.600155.4635th Street North (
CR 17
)
96.848155.862
SR 17 south (10th Street South) – Lake Hamilton
97.658157.165
CR 580
east (Johnson Avenue East)
CR 547 (Davenport Boulevard) to US 27
106.964172.142

Poinciana Parkway – Loughman, Poinciana
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
119.058191.605
John Young Parkway) / to Osceola Parkway
south end of US 192 / SR 530 overlap
119.809192.814


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)
SR 500) / SR 50 west (Colonial Drive) – Apopka
north end of US 441 / SR 500 overlap; south end of SR 50 overlap
137.79221.75
SR 400) to SR 408
I-4 exit 83A/84
no access from US 17 south to I-4 east (use SR 527 north)
137.992222.077
SR 527 south (Orange Avenue)
138.131222.300

SR 527 north (North Magnolia Avenue) to I-4
138.894223.528


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
140.077225.432
To
Princeton Street
Business District
141.645227.956
SR 426 (Fairbanks Avenue) to I-4
142.533229.385





US 92 Truck east (Lee Road) to I-4
Eatonville
143.659231.197Maitland Avenue (
CR 427
north)
144.782233.004





US 92 Truck west (Maitland Boulevard) to I-4
interchange
SeminoleCasselberry146.725236.131
SR 436 to I-4 – Altamonte Springs, Apopka
interchange
Longwood149.487240.576
SR 434 to I-4 – Longwood, Winter Springs
Winter Springs152.065244.725
SR 419 south – Winter Springs, Oviedo
CR 427
(Ronald Reagan Boulevard)
Orlando-Sanford International Airport
155.45250.17
Orlando-Sanford International Airport
SR 417 exit 50
156.623252.060


Orlando-Sanford International Airport
south end of SR 46 overlap
157.580253.600
CR 415
north (13th Street)
158.347254.835North 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]
161.738260.292

Mt. Dora, Lake Mary
north end of SR 46 overlap
Orange Blvd (
CR 431 west) – Port of Sanford
161.88260.52
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
170.187273.889
CR 4145
east (Graves Avenue)
171.93276.69

SR 472 east to I-4 – Sanford, Orlando
interchange
CR 4116 (Orange Camp Road / McGregor Road) – Lake Helen
173.683279.516
SR 44
west
175.685282.738 SR 44 (New York Avenue) – Eustis, New Smyrna Beach
177.533285.712

SR 600) – Daytona Beach
north end of US 92 / SR 600 overlap
178.731287.640
Glenwood
180.357290.256

SR 44
west
183.324295.031
CR 3 north (Ponce Deleon Boulevard) – De Leon Springs State Park
Barberville189.703305.297 SR 40 – Silver Springs, Ormond Beach
CR 305 east – Bunnell
CR 308B west (West Main Street) – Welaka
CR 309 south – Welaka, Welaka State Forest
223.7360.0
Dunns Creek
SR 20 east) – Bunnell
south end of SR 20 / SR 100 overlap
East Palatka229.925370.028
SR 207 north – Hastings, St. Augustine
231.6372.7
Memorial Bridge over St. Johns River
Palatka232.577374.296
SR 20 west (9th Street) – Interlachen, Ravine Gardens State Park
north end of SR 20 overlap
233.772376.220
SR 20
west
north end of SR 100 overlap
234.836377.932
SR 20
west
CR 216
west
238.216383.371
CR 209
north
CR 209
south (Palmetto Bluff Road)
CR 214
west (Sungarden Road)
248.207399.450
CR 214
east (Decoy Road)
CR 226
east
254.030408.822
CR 15A
north
SR 23 (First Coast Expressway)Future planned interchange
256.236412.372
CR 209
south
Green Cove Springs257.846414.963
SR 16 east – St. Augustine
south end of SR 16 overlap
258.476415.977
SR 16 west (Ferris Street) – Penney Farms, Starke
north end of SR 16 overlap
261.300420.522
CR 315
west
261.889421.469
CR 209
west
261.988421.629
CR 209
east
CR 15A
(Hibernia Road)
266.737429.272

CR 15A east (Bald Eagle Road) – Doctors Inlet, St. Johns River State College, Middleburg
268.019431.335
CR 15B
(Raggedy Point Road)
269.165433.179
CR 15A
(Westover Road)
Orange Park271.126436.335
SR 224 west (Kingsley Avenue)
Savannah
I-295 exit 10
276.948445.705
Cecil Field
277.048445.866Ortega Boulevardformer
SR 211
north
279.804450.301
SR 128 (San Juan Avenue) to I-10
280.655451.670Park Street east –
FSCJ Kent Campus
280.77451.86
SR 21 south (Blanding Boulevard)
interchange; no northbound exit
281.76453.45Edgewood Avenueinterchange
282.060453.932

To
SR 15
north
282.275454.278

SR 129 north / SR 228 west (McDuff Avenue)
south end of SR 228 overlap
283.117455.633

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
283.61456.43Stockton Street –
Riverside
I-10 exit 362 (northbound); I-95 exit 351C (southbound)
284.062north end of I-10 / SR 8 overlap; south end of I-95 / SR 9 overlap (US 17 takes exit 352D/351B)
284.4457.7Forest Street / Riverside Avenue –
Convention Center
I-95 exit 352A
285.0458.7Forsyth Street –
Convention Center
I-95 exit 352B (northbound exit and southbound entrance)
285.2459.0Monroe Street – DowntownI-95 exit 352C (no southbound exit)
285.3459.1Church Street, Myrtle Avenue, Forsyth StreetI-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
285.577459.592

To I-95 / US 90 (Beaver Street) / North Davis Street
286.169460.544

US 90 Alt.
west (North Laura Street)
286.263460.696

SR 10A
east)
north end of US 23 / SR 139 / SR 228 overlap; south end of US 1 / SR 5 overlap
287.344462.435
To
SR 114
288.08463.62



SR 115) to I-95
north end of US 1 overlap
288.391464.120
SR 122 west (27th Street)
289.761466.325
SR 111 south (Tallulah Avenue)
291.673469.402

SR 105 north (Zoo Parkway) to I-95
interchange
292.111470.107

To I-95 south / Clark Road
293.264471.963

SR 163
south
295.22475.11
I-295 (SR 9A) to I-95
296.520477.203 Airport Center Drive –
SR 102
297.590478.925
To I-95 / Duval Road
former SR 110 west
299.488481.979
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

See also

References

  1. ^ a b FDOT straight line diagrams, accessed January 2014
  2. ^ a b c FDOT GIS data, accessed January 2014
  3. ^ "U.S. 17 North - Punta Gorda to Lake Alfred". AA Roads. Retrieved September 2, 2016.[self-published source]
  4. ^ "Google Map of U.S. Route 17 in Eagle Lake, Florida". Google Maps. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
  5. ^ "US 17-92 Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA)". City of Winter Springs, Florida. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
  6. ^ "Welcome to the Palatka Railroad Preservation Society". Palatka Railroad Preservation Society. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
  7. ^ "End of US highway 17". U.S. Ends. Archived from the original on August 28, 2016. Retrieved August 26, 2016.[self-published source]
  8. ^ a b "US 17 Corridor Projects". Florida Department of Transportation. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  9. ^ "Abandoned Railroad Rights-of-way". Google. Retrieved October 4, 2018.
  10. ^ "U.S. Highway 17". AA Roads. Retrieved September 6, 2016.[self-published source]
  11. ^ "Zolfo Springs Downtown Vision Plan" (PDF). Central Florida Regional Planning Council. Retrieved May 6, 2018.
  12. ^ "Lake Monroe Bridge". Bridge Hunters. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
  13. Gross Domestic Product deflator
    figures follow the MeasuringWorth series.
  14. ^ "Casselberry's State Road 436 and Red Bug Lake Road flyover set to open Saturday". Orlando Sentinel.
  15. ^ Chavez, Crystal (April 6, 2015). "Ribbon Cutting Monday For New US 17-92 Flyover". WMFE-FM. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
  16. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). route.transportation.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 4, 2017. Retrieved January 15, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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