Indian River Lagoon Scenic Highway
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The Indian River Lagoon Scenic Highway is a scenic byway of Florida. It starts at the eastern terminous of Florida State Road 402, Kennedy Parkway inside the Kennedy Space Center. It turns west toward Historic Downtown Titusville. At the other end of SR 402, the road turns southward to U.S. Route 1. Twelve miles south of Downtown Titusville, the scenic byway meets CR 515, part of the Indian River Lagoon Scenic Highway. After the southern terminus of CR 515, it passes Pineda, Palm Shores, Melbourne, Palm Bay, Grant-Valkaria, Barefoot Bay,Micco, Roseland,Sebastian, and Wabasso.
At SR 510 in Wabasso, the byway turns left on the Wabasso Causeway to Orchid to Florida State Road A1A and turns left. Several places along the way are:North Beach, Sebastian Inlet State Park, Melbourne Beach, Indialantic, Melbourne ,Indian Harbor Beach, Satellite Beach, Patrick Air Force Base, Cocoa Beach, and Cape Canaveral.
Florida State Road 528 begins at Cape Canaveral as the Emory L. Bennett Causeway and heads to the southern terminus of the road. It goes over Florida State Road 3 in Merrit Island, and finally, it ends at U.S. Route 1 in Cocoa (also the west end of the Emory L. Bennett Causeway. The total milege of the highway is 130 miles. It takes about 4 hours to travel on the entire roadway, and 10 days to enjoy the destinations along the highway.
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- All the causeways between Wabasso Causeway and the Emory L. Bennett Causeway has signs posted that say "Florida Scenic Highway:Indian River Lagoon".
