State Road 542 (SR 542) is a west–east route in Central Florida, serving
Polk County Polk County is the name of twelve counties in the United States, all except two named after president of the United States James Knox Polk:
* Polk County, Arkansas
* Polk County, Florida
* Polk County, Georgia
* Polk County, Iowa
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. It runs 6 miles from downtown
Winter Haven to west of downtown
Dundee, Florida
Dundee is a town in Polk County, Florida, United States. The population was 3,717 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Lakeland– Winter Haven Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
A post office called Dundee has been in operation since 1 ...
.
Route description
State Road 542 starts in the heart of downtown Winter Haven, as Central Avenue, the west–east axis of the city's grid plan. Its western terminus is the intersection with 1st Street (
SR 549), the city's north–south axis. As it heads eastward, it soon reaches Lake Elbert, whose southern shore it skirts as Lake Elbert Drive SE. Past Lake Elbert, it shoots due eastward as Dundee Road, passing Overlook Drive, a southwest–northeast access route to
Cypress Gardens Blvd, and intersecting with
US 27
U.S. Route 27 (US 27) is a north–south United States Highway in the southern and midwestern United States. The southern terminus is at US 1 in Miami, Florida. The northern terminus is at Interstate 69 (I-69) in Fort Wayne, Indiana. F ...
at the Dundee Ridge Plaza shopping center. True to its name, Dundee Road leads from US 27 to the downtown of
Dundee
Dundee (; sco, Dundee; gd, Dùn Dè or ) is Scotland's fourth-largest city and the 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom. The mid-year population estimate for 2016 was , giving Dundee a population density of 2,478/km2 or ...
, where it intersects with
SR 17, the Scenic Highway.
Major intersections
Related routes
County Road 542
County Road 542 exists in three separate places in Polk County:
*One segment, called Old Tampa Highway, traverses western Lakeland from County Line Road to Wabash Avenue.
*The middle segment has its western terminus at Gary Road in eastern Lakeland, where it is known as E Main Street and then K-Ville Avenue. It traverses eastward toward Winter Haven, where it is called Avenue G NW, conforming with the city's grid plan and ending at US 17 near where SR 542 picks up.
*The easternmost segment starts at SR 17 just south of Dundee, near the eastern terminus of SR 542. This segment, known as Lake Hatchineha Road, leads deep through rural Polk County all the way to Lake Hatchineha.
References
External links
FDOT Map of Polk County (Including SR 542)
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