Florida State Road 858

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Also known as Hallandale Beach Boulevard and Miramar Parkway, State Road 858 is a 5.3-mile-long divided highway in southern Broward County, Florida. Its western terminus is an intersection with University Drive (SR 817) in Miramar; its eastern terminus is an intersection with South Ocean Drive (SR A1A) on the boundary between Hallandale and Hollywood, just east of the Intracoastal Waterway. Hallandale Beach Boulevard and SR 858 are synonymous: a westbound motorist overshooting the western terminus finds himself on Miramar Parkway, also known as Broward County Road 858, in Miramar. The County Road designation extends 8.6 miles to the west, ending at an intersection with Interstate 75, while Miramar Parkway continues an additional four miles westward, until its intersection with 196th Avenue in Miramar.

Originally, Hallandale Beach Boulevard was State Road 824, with a stretch of Pembroke Road, a half mile to the north sporting State Road 824A signage. As part of a statewide reorganization, Florida Department of Transportation transferred the SR 824 signage to a longer stretch of Pembroke Road and assigned State Road 858 to Hallandale Beach Boulevard (despite having SR 852 and SR 854 being to the south). At the same time, the SR 858 designation was transferred from Oil Well Road in Collier County that extended westward from Sunnyland Station on the Collier-Hendry County boundary line.

While the land along the western two-thirds of Miramar Parkway is in the process of development as the population of southwestern Broward County has been undergoing rapid growth since the late 1980s, the neighborhoods along the eastern part (including CR 858) are now fully constructed as suburban housing, which continues along most of SR 858 west of South Dixie Highway (which had the designation of SR 5A until the 1990s). Between Dixie Highway and the bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway, SR 858 is primarily a commercial highway lined with shopping centers. On the southeast corner of South Federal Highway (US 1-SR 5) and SR 858 is Gulfstream Park Race Track.