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 across northern
Miami-Dade County
Miami-Dade County () is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Florida. The county had a population of 2,701,767 as of the 2020 census, making it the most populous county in Florida and the seventh-most-populous coun ...
, 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
Dixie Highway was a United States auto trail first planned in 1914 to connect the Midwest with the South. It was part of a system and was expanded from an earlier Miami to Montreal highway. The final system is better understood as a network o ...
and US 1.
Route description
For 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
A shopping center in American English, shopping centre in English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English (see American and British English spelling differences#-re, -er, spelling differences), shopping complex, shopping arcade, ...
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 to its end in a residential division next to the Homestead Extension of Florida’s Turnpike.
History
From 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 despite its reversion to Miami-Dade County maintenance.
Major intersections
References
External links
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