Florida State Road 407

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State Road 407, locally known as Challenger Memorial Parkway, is a spur from the Martin Andersen Beachline Expressway (SR 528) that links the expressway to SR 405. By utilizing the 407 to 405 route, travelers from Central Florida can access the Kennedy Space Center and the city of Titusville. State Road 407 was built as a two-lane freeway (also known as a Super-2), meaning that although the highway is expressway-standard, it is merely two lanes with only a dotted or solid yellow line in the middle separating northbound and southbound traffic.

Within the SR 528/SR 407/I-95 triangle is a swampland containing the southern unit of Saint Johns National Wildlife Refuge, a popular resting area for migrating birds (the northern unit is two miles to the north, adjacent to I-95 and SR 50), and just to the west of the triangle is William Beardall Tosohatchee Reserve State Park, which extends from SR 50 southward to just south of SR 520 in nearby Orange County.

The northern half of the road lost its two-lane freeway qualities when an at-grade intersection was built just south of SR 405, providing a southern exit to Florida's Spaceport Industrial Park and Space Coast Regional Airport.

[edit] Major intersections

SR 528 (no re-entry eastbound, no exit from westbound)
SR 9 (Interstate 95)
- Northbound 407 can only exit to northbound Interstate 95.
- Southbound 407 can only exit to southbound Interstate 95.
Shepard Drive
SR 405