Florida State Road 854
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An east-west commuter road spanning 8.7 miles across northern Miami-Dade County, the former State Road 854 is also locally known as Honey Hill Road, Northwest 199th Street, Dan Marino Boulevard (in Miami Gardens next to Dolphin Stadium), Ives Dairy Road, Northeast 205th Terrace, and Northeast 203rd Street. Its western terminus is an intersection with Red Road/Northwest 57th Avenue (SR 823) near Miami Lakes and Carol City; the eastern terminus is an intersection with Biscayne Boulevard (US 1-SR 5 in Aventura, a half block east of an intersection with West Dixie Highway (the former State Road 5A that once served as part of the Dixie Highway and US 1).
The 1.0-mile-long stretch along Dolphin Stadium notwithstanding, SR 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 accidents block lanes of either expressway during the rush hour.
Westbound motorists going beyond the western terminus of SR 854 travel along a divided Northwest 202nd Street, which is just south of Miami-Dade County’s boundary with Broward County and adjacent to Snake Creek Canal. From the late 1950s until 1980, the southern terminus of SR 823 was an intersection of Ludlam Road (Northwest 67th Avenue) and Northwest 202nd Street. To the west, the de facto County Line Road (not to be confused with SR 852 near Calder Race Track) extends an additional 1.5 miles to its end in a residential division next to Florida’s Turnpike.
Originally, Honey Hill Road and Northwest 199th Street sported State Road 852 signage 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 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).
