County Road 854 (CR 854), locally known as Ives Dairy Road, Dan Marino Boulevard, and Honey Hill Drive, is the unsigned designation for an east–west commuter road spanning 8.7 miles (14.0 km) across northern Miami-Dade County, which encompasses sections of North 199th Street, North 202nd Street, North 203rd Street, and North 205th Terrace. Its western terminus is an intersection with Red Road/Northwest 57th Avenue (State Road 823, SR 823) near Miami Lakes and Carol City, the eastern terminus is an intersection with Biscayne Boulevard (US Highway 1, US 1) in Aventura, a half block east of an overpass over West Dixie Highway that once served as part of the Dixie Highway and US 1.
 County Road 854 | |
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| Route information | |
| Length | 9.50 mi[1][2] (15.29 km) |
| Existed | 1983 (as SR 854); 2004 (as CR 854)–present |
| Major junctions | |
| West end |  SR 823 in Royal Country |
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| East end |  US 1 in Aventura |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Florida |
| County | Miami-Dade |
| Highway system | |
Route description
editFor most of the route, County Road 854 is within two miles south of Miami-Dade County’s boundary with Broward County and adjacent to Snake Creek Canal. A reversible lane setup is in place between SR 817 and US 441 to serve Sun Life Stadium traffic.
The 1.0-mile-long stretch along Sun Life Stadium notwithstanding, CR 854 snakes through suburban residential developments with the occasional shopping center along the way. The former State Road is often used as an alternative to the Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike (SR 821) and the Palmetto Expressway (SR 826), when traffic is heavy or blocked on the expressways.
Beyond the western terminus of CR 854, Northwest 202nd Street travels west as a divided road, intersecting with Flamingo Road. To the west, the road extends an additional 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to its end in a residential division next to the Homestead Extension of Florida’s Turnpike.
History
editFrom the late 1950s until 1980, the southern terminus of SR 823 was an intersection of Ludlam Road/Flamingo Road (West 67th Avenue) and North 202nd Street.
Originally, North 199th Street was designated State Road 852 from Red Road (now SR 823) to US 1. In a statewide reallocation of numbers in 1983, the SR 852 signs were moved one mile (1.6 km) northward to County Line Road, and the former SR 852 was relabeled State Road 854, a designation that the route had for two decades. Some commercially available maps still show the road as a State Road[which?] despite its reversion to Miami-Dade County maintenance.[citation needed]
Major intersections
editThe entire route is in Miami-Dade County.
| Location | mi[1] | km | Destinations | Notes | |
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| Country Club–Miramar– Royal Country tripoint | 0.000 | 0.000 |   SR 823 (Northwest 57th Avenue / Red Road) to Florida's Turnpike Extension | Western terminus | |
| Miami Gardens | 1.1[2] | 1.8 |  SR 847 (Northwest 47th Avenue) | ||
| 3.113 | 5.010 |  SR 817 (Northwest 27th Avenue / Unity Boulevard) to Florida's Turnpike Extension – Race Track | |||
| 4.202 | 6.762 |     Florida's Turnpike (SR 91) to I-95 / SR 826 – Orlando, Homestead, Miami | Exit 2X on Turnpike | ||
| 5.660 | 9.109 |   US 441 (Northwest 2nd Avenue / SR 7) to I-95 south / SR 826 | |||
| Ives Estates–Ojus line | 8.3[2] | 13.4 | I-95 (SR 9) – West Palm Beach, Miami | Exit 16 on I-95 | |
| Ojus | 9.447 | 15.203 | West Dixie Highway | Eastbound access is via Northeast 26th Avenue | |
| Aventura | 9.50[2] | 15.29 | US 1 (Biscayne Boulevard / SR 5) / Northeast 203rd Street east | interchange | |
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||
References
edit- ^ a b FDOT GIS data Archived 2008-12-11 at the Wayback Machine, accessed January 2014
- ^ a b c d Google Maps distance