Florida State Road 5

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State Road 5

Signed portion of SR 5 in red; expand map to see remainder of SR 5 designated along US 1 and 17 in blue
Route information
Maintained by FDOT
Length536.724 mi[1] (863.774 km)
6.784 miles (10.918 km) signed
Existed1945 renumbering (definition)–present
Major junctions
South end US 1 / Fleming Street in Key West
Major intersections US 98 / SR 80 in West Palm Beach
North end US 17 / SR 25 in Kingsland, GA
Location
CountryUnited States
StateFlorida
Highway system
SR 4 SR 5A

State Road 5 (SR 5) is a mostly-unsigned state highway in the state of Florida. It is mainly signed as US 1 from its south end in Key West, Florida to Jacksonville, Florida, and US 17 from Jacksonville to the Georgia state line at the Saint Marys River. US 1 is SR 15 northwest from Jacksonville.

However, the road is signed as State Road 5 in two locations. The first runs from northern Lantana through Lake Worth to Belvedere Road in West Palm Beach, SR 5 is separate from US 1, which runs to the west on the older but wider Dixie Highway. Here, SR 5 runs along a road named Olive Avenue. The second is on a previous routing of US 1 and US 90 in Jacksonville south of the Main Street Bridge.

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Southern section

SR 5 uses the parallel Olive Avenue from just north of County Road 812 (Lantana Road) in Lantana until Belvedere Road in West Palm Beach, where it turns west one block to rejoin Dixie Highway and US 1. Olive Avenue and Dixie Highway are parallel and extremely close to each other for this entire length. Olive Avenue is also signed as Federal Highway, but this name is not used as much.

Northern section

SR 5 again starts at an intersection of US 1, US 90, and I-95 where they split from each other in South Jacksonville. The route then travels northwest along Kings Avenue, before curving northward and passing under I-95. It then turns west along Prudential Avenue. When it reaches Main Street, it then turns northward, running as the surface frontage roads for the US 1/US 90 branch, before ending at the onramps for those routes as they approach the Main Street Bridge.

History

Until around 2004, Olive Avenue carried northbound US 1 (and SR 5) north from Dixie Highway (new US 1 / SR 805) to SR A1A. In 2004, US 1 was re-routed onto Dixie Highway without SR 5. Afterwards, FDOT started periodically relinquishing SR 5 in fragments between July 1, 2004 and April 7, 2011. FDOT has relinquished all of former SR 5 in the city of West Palm Beach. Therefore, SR 5 has a gap starting at the West Palm Beach-Lake Worth city line, and resumes at the US 1 intersection with Belvedere Road in West Palm Beach.

The northern section was the old routing of US 1/US 90 on surface streets in South Jacksonville until 2019, when those US Routes were rerouted onto the adjacent I-95 and their own limited access highway along Main Street approaching the Main Street Bridge.

Major intersections

CountyLocationmi[1]kmDestinationsNotes
MonroeKey West0.0000.000Fleming StreetSouthern terminus; south end of concurrency with US 1
see US 1 (mile 0.000-216.945)
Palm BeachLantana216.945349.139
US 1 north (Dixie Highway)
Northern terminus of concurrency with US 1; southern terminus of SR 805
Lake Worth218.590351.787
SR 802 east (Lake Avenue)
One-way eastbound
218.639351.865
SR 802 west (Lucerne Avenue)
One-way westbound
219.391353.076
10th Avenue to I-95
West Palm Beach220.596355.015C-51 Canal BridgeSouthern terminus of city maintenance
221.300356.148Forest Hill BoulevardTo SR 882
222.721358.435

US 98 / SR 80 (Southern Boulevard) to I-95 / Florida's Turnpike
223.729360.057Olive AvenueFormer US 1 north
223.834360.226

US 1 south (Dixie Highway) to Belvedere Road / I-95
Northern terminus of city maintenance; southern terminus of concurrency with US 1; northern terminus of SR 805
see US 1 (mile 223.834-503.54)
DuvalJacksonville503.54810.37
I-95 / US 1 north (SR 9)
Northern end of US 1 concurrency; northbound exit and southbound entrance (I-95 exit 348)
503.820810.820Atlantic Boulevardformer US 90 / SR 10 east
504.670812.188
SR 13 south (Hendricks Avenue)
Southern end of SR 13 concurrency
504.918812.587

SR 13 north (Prudential Drive) to I-95
Northern end of SR 13 concurrency
505.240813.105

US 1 south / US 90 east (Main Street / SR 10 east)
Southern end of US 1/US 90/SR 10 concurrencies; northbound entrance and southbound exit
see US 1 (mile 504.918-507.69), US 17 (mile 288.08-317.070)
NassauWilds Landing537.002864.221

US 17 north / SR 25 north – Kingsland, Brunswick
Georgia state line (St. Marys River Bridge over St. Marys River); northern terminus; north end of concurrency with US 17
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

  1. ^ a b FDOT straight line diagrams Archived March 6, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 2014