Florida State Road 710
State Road 710 (SR 710) is a 57-mile (92 km) northwest-southeast route connecting SR 70 near Okeechobee, three miles (5 km) from the northern tip of Lake Okeechobee in south central Florida, to Old Dixie Highway (CR 811) in Riviera Beach. Most of the route is also known as Bee-Line Highway and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, as it parallels the railroad tracks maintained by CSX Transportation (their Auburndale Subdivision) and used by Amtrak; and doesn’t have a turn or curve in the 48 miles (77 km) southeast of Sherman, except for a small bend northwest of North Palm Beach County General Aviation Airport. Near the middle of the highway, where Indiantown is located, the route is also known as Warfield Boulevard, named after S. Davies Warfield, the president of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad who originally built the adjacent railroad tracks.
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Maintained by FDOT | ||||
Length | 56.871 mi[1] (91.525 km) | |||
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Counties | Okeechobee, Martin, Palm Beach | |||
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Route description
The Bee-Line Highway traverses the woodlands and wetlands north and east of Lake Okeechobee, with an occasional farm near its northwestern end. It is a popular truck route that is used as an alternative to US 441/US 98/SR 700. Along the way, SR 710 passes through Indiantown (near the St. Lucie Canal and midway along the Bee Line stretch) and West Palm Beach.
History
For a year in the 1940s, Bee Line Highway was part of State Road 66 before the number was changed to 710.
Major intersections
County | Location | mi[1] | km | Destinations | Notes |
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Okeechobee | | 0.000 | 0.000 | ||
| 5.832 | 9.386 | Northern terminus of CR 15A | ||
| 9.520 | 15.321 | Northern terminus of CR 15B | ||
Martin | | 9.950 | 16.013 | Western terminus of CR 714 | |
Indiantown | 24.867 | 40.020 | Southern terminus of CR 609 | ||
26.562 | 42.747 | Western terminus of CR 726 | |||
St. Lucie Canal (Okeechobee Waterway) | 26.96 | 43.39 | Big John Monahan Bridge | ||
| 27.411 | 44.114 | Grade-separated interchange | ||
Palm Beach | Apix | 34.905 | 56.174 | Western terminus of CR 706 and Indiantown Road | |
| 39.612 | 63.749 | Pratt Whitney Road (CR 711 north) / Innovation Drive | Southern terminus of CR 711; access Beeline Corporate Park | |
| 44.095 | 70.964 | Access via Aviation Boulevard | ||
Palm Beach Gardens | 46.737 | 75.216 | Western terminus of SR 786 | ||
West Palm Beach–Palm Beach Gardens line | 50.276 | 80.911 | Western terminus of CR 809A (former SR 809A) | ||
51.521 | 82.915 | SunPass-only interchange; exit 107 on Turnpike | |||
Riviera Beach | 53.364 | 85.881 | Western terminus of SR 708 | ||
53.804 | 86.589 | ||||
55.143 | 88.744 | ||||
56.231 | 90.495 | Former SR 704A | |||
56.871 | 91.525 | Former routing of Dixie Highway | |||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi |
References
- Transportation and Data Analytics Office (July 6, 2016). "Straight Line Diagram of Road Inventory". Florida Department of Transportation. Retrieved January 6, 2020.
External links
Media related to Florida State Road 710 at Wikimedia Commons