Florida State Road 884

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State Road 884

Length:

4.6 mi (7 km)

West end:

US 41 in Fort Myers

Major
junctions:

FL 739 in Fort Myers

CR 865 near Fort Myers

East end:

I-75 near Fort Myers

Florida State and County Roads

State Road 884 and Lee County Road 884 is Lee County, Florida's primary east-west controlled-access highway, linking Cape Coral in the western portion of the county to Lehigh Acres in the eastern portion. The highway runs into the incorporated limits of the city of Fort Myers and through downtown Cape Coral, spanning approximately 20 miles; its placement has resulted in its becoming a major commuter route.

When the Midpoint Memorial Bridge opened in 1997, the highway received the first of several planned upgrades. The Midpoint bridge connects Fort Myers to Cape Coral, over the Caloosahatchee River. In Cape Coral, the road is Veterans Parkway, a limited-access highway with an interchange at Del Prado Boulevard (County Road 867A). After crossing the Caloosahatchee River into Fort Myers the highway, where it is known as Colonial Boulevard, is a controlled-access structure with an interchange at Cleveland Avenue (Tamiami Trail-U.S. Highway 41), where it becomes State Road 884. Continuing east, the route interchanges with Interstate 75 west of Lehigh Acres and becomes known as Lee Boulevard.

Until the mid 1980s, SR 884 continued eastward past I-75 into Lee Boulevard, to Lehigh Acres before turning north on Joel Boulevard. The historic eastern terminus of SR 884 is an intersection with Palm Beach Boulevard (State Road 80) near Alva.

In the mid 1970s, Florida Department of Transportation designated the segment of then-SR 884 east of Immokalee Road (State Road 82) as a secondary state road, starting a process that transformed the eastern part of SR S-884 into County Road 884. This was part of a set of FDOT road redesignations that transformed the map of southern Florida.

County Road 884

Length:

12.4 mi (20 km)

West end:

FL 78 near Cape Coral

Major
junctions:

CR 867A in Cape Coral

FL 867 in Fort Myers

CR 869 in Fort Myers

East end:

US 41 in Fort Myers

County roads in Florida

[edit] Future upgrades

Ultimately, the entire stretch of SR 884 and CR 884 will be upgraded to freeway standards with the addition of several interchanges and the elimination of several at-grade entrances and crossings, as part of the Bi-County Transportation Corridor. Burnt Store Road (CR 765) will also be widened as part of the same project. [1]