Florida State Road 46

County Road 46A
Location

County Road 46
Location	Mount Dora

State Road 46
Route information
	Maintained by FDOT
Length	52.752 mi[1] (84.896 km)
Major junctions
West end	US 441 in Mount Dora
	I-4 near Sanford; US 17 / US 92 in Sanford; I-95 near Mims
East end	US 1 in Mims
Highway system

State Road 46 (SR 46) is an east–west route in central Florida, running from US 441 in Mount Dora to US 1 in Mims. Along the way, it crosses the Wekiva River and, further east, the St. Johns River near the Econlockhatchee River.

County Road 46 continues west from the western terminus to County Road Old 441 in Mount Dora.

Route description

State Road 46 begins as Sanford Road at an unnumbered diamond interchange with US 441, where it changes from a County Road to a State Road. After the intersection with Round Lake Road, SR 46 turns northeast and runs parallel to an abandoned railroad line, which it then curves away from, but then encounters at a former grade crossing in Sorrento just west of the intersection with County Road 437, which shares a brief concurrency with SR 46 for several blocks. East of Sorrento, the road becomes Sorrento Avenue, a name it maintains as it passes by County Road 435 in Mount Plymouth, and then Seminole State Forest. Before entering the forest however, SR 46 passes by Mount Plymouth Lake to the south and encounters the same right-of-way for the abandoned railroad to the north, which runs parallel to the road as even after it leaves the forest on a bridge over the Wekiva River at the Lake-Seminole County line becoming North Henderson Lane, and running along the south end of Lower Wekiva River Preserve State Park. After the intersections with Orange Avenue and Wayside Drive, SR 46 becomes a four lane divided highway before reaching the interchange with Interstate 4, and later joins a concurrency with U.S. Route 17/92, the latter of these routes is in a wrong-way concurrency. Along this segment, US 17/92/SR 46 passes by the Sanford SunRail station before it climbs a bridge over the CSX Sanford Subdivision then intersects Persimmon Avenue, a road leading to the Sanford Auto Train Station, and former passenger station. Eventually the triple-concurrency enters the City of Sanford where it is renamed West First Street. Closer to downtown Sanford the divider ends west of Avocado Avenue, but begins again before it turns south onto South French Avenue. During this triple-concurrency, US 17-92-SR 46 intersects a pair of railroad crossings at a junction of two freight lines, and then another one at the intersection of West 13th Street, also the western terminus of County Road 415. SR 46 then branches off to the east again at H.E. Thomas Jr. Parkway (County Road 46A) and 25th Street. SR 46 runs along the northern border of the Orlando Sanford International Airport, then after the southern terminus of State Road 415, uses a bridge over Lake Jesup at the Saint Johns River then become Geneva Avenue as it heads southeast. East of Geneva, the road crosses the St. Johns River itself using the Mims Bridge south of Lake Harney, and entering Volusia County. The journey through Volusia is short-lived though, because the road quickly enters Brevard County and turns straight east at Southmere, where it becomes Carpenter Road. SR 46 finally enters Mims in the vicinity of Interstate 95 at Exit 223, and then ends at US 1.

Future

SR 46's interchange with US 441 will be reconfigured from a diamond interchange to an at-grade intersection supplemented with two flyovers from SR 46 west to US 441 north, and from US 441 south to SR 46 east. Additionally, SR 46 will be truncated at its interchanges with SR 453 and SR 429 when the Wekiva Parkway is completed in 2022. The existing alignment will be renamed Sorrento Avenue. CR 46A's intersection with SR 46 will be relocated to decrease impacts to Seminole State Forest.

Major intersections

County	Location	mi[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
Lake	Mount Dora	0.000	0.000	west end of state maintenance
	Mount Dora	0.07	0.11	US 441 (SR 500) / CR 46 west – Apopka, Orlando, Eustis, Tavares	interchange
		2.34	3.77	SR 453 south to SR 429 – Daytona Beach, Orlando	Interchange opened 2018, future eastern terminus of SR 46 western segment.
	Sorrento	4.202	6.762	CR 437 south	west end of CR 437 overlap
		4.717	7.591	CR 437 north	east end of CR 437 overlap
	Mount Plymouth	5.826	9.376	CR 435 south – Apopka
		7.626	12.273	SR 429 south – Orlando, Tampa	Exit 44 on SR 429, future western terminus of SR 46 eastern segment
		10.494	16.888	CR 46A north – Eustis	This intersection will eventually be relocated when SR 429 is complete in order to lessen environmental impact to Seminole State Forest.
Seminole		14.042	22.598	Longwood Markham Road (CR 46A east)
		16.654	26.802	Orange Boulevard (CR 431)
		17.576	28.286	To CR 46A / SR 417 / International Parkway
		18.18	29.26	I-4 (SR 400) to SR 417 – Orlando, Daytona Beach	I-4 exit 101C
	Sanford	19.099	30.737	US 17 north / US 92 west (Monroe Road / SR 15 north / SR 600 west) / CR 15 south (Upsala Road) – Lake Monroe, Central Florida Zoo	west end of US 17 / US 92 / SR 15 / SR 600 overlap
		20.328	32.715	To SR 417 / Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard – Airport
		22.108	35.579	North French Avenue (former US 17/92 north) - Old Lake Monroe Pier 1st Street - East - Business District	Former west end of US 17 / US 92 / SR 15 / SR 600 overlap[2]
		22.875	36.814	CR 415 north (13th Street)
		23.832	38.354	US 17 south / US 92 east (French Avenue / SR 15 south / SR 600 east) / CR 46A west (H.E. Thomas Jr. Parkway) to SR 417	east end of US 17 / US 92 / SR 15 / SR 600 overlap
		24.331	39.157	CR 425 south (Sanford Avenue) – Orlando-Sanford International Airport
		27.492	44.244	SR 415 north / Lake Mary Boulevard – New Smyrna Beach, Daytona Beach, Osteen, Airport
	Geneva	34.871	56.119	CR 426 west – Oviedo, Winter Park
St. Johns River		39.924– 40.155	64.251– 64.623	State Road 46 Bridge
Volusia	No major junctions
Brevard		51.20	82.40	I-95 (SR 9) – Jacksonville, Miami	I-95 exit 223
Brevard	Mims	52.752	84.896	US 1 (SR 5) – New Smyrna Beach, Titusville
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus Unopened

Related routes

County Road 46

County Road 46 is a county extension of State Road 46 in Mount Dora in Lake County in Florida. It runs along East First Avenue from CR Old 441 in the west to a diamond interchange with U.S. Route 441 and SR 46 in the east. West of Old CR 441, East First Avenue is a city street in Mount Dora.

County Road 46A (Lake County)

County Road 46A is a county suffixed route of SR 46 along the southwest side of Seminole State Forest in Lake County. It runs along East First Avenue from State Road 44 east of Mount Dora and Eustis to the west to SR 46 to the east.

County Road 46A (Seminole County)

County Road 46A is another county suffixed route of SR 46 in Seminole County. It is signed along H.E. Thomas Jr. Parkway (former 25th Street) from CR 431 east to US 17/92 / SR 46 in Sanford.

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References

FDOT straight line diagrams Archived March 6, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, accessed January 2014

Florida State Road Atlas (American Map Corporation; 2003)

External links

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