Florida State Road 82

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For a street in Fort Lauderdale, Florida that was once designated State Road 82, see State Road 736 (Florida).

Locally known as Immokalee Road and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, State Road 82 is a 29-mile-long east-west highway serving northern Lee and Collier County, Florida (and "clipping" the southwest corner of Hendry County). The western terminus is an intersection with Cleveland Avenue (US 41-SR 45, part of the Tamiami Trail) in Fort Myers; the eastern terminus is an intersection with SR 29 midway between Immokalee and Felda.

Motorists continuing past the western terminus of State Road 82 travel along McGregor Boulevard (SR 867). Other State Roads within a few blocks of the western terminus include SR 80 (western terminus located two blocks to the north) and SR 739-Business US 41 one-half mile to the east.

West of Interstate 75 (SR 93), State Road 82 is a divided residential/commuter road; east of the Interstate highway, Immokalee Road loses its median and becomes a two-lane agricultural road as it crosses the southwest Florida farmlands and wetlands, a part of Big Cypress Swamp and the western edge of the Everglades drainage system.

Until the 1980s, SR 82 was an "interrupted" Florida State Road, for there was concurrently a Fort Lauderdale street (Davie Boulevard) with SR 82 signage. As part of a statewide renumbering, Davie Boulevard's SR 82 signage was replaced with signs showing its current designation: SR 736.