Florida State Road 908

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In the late 1950s to the 1970s, State Road 908 was a 13-mile-long east-west street in southern Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA (formerly Dade County). Locally, it was known as Silver Palm Drive, Southwest 232d Street, and Bailes Road. Its western terminus was an intersection with Country Club Road (Southwest 202d Avenue) in the Redlands; its eastern terminus is an intersection with Galloway Road (Southwest 87th Avenue) midway between Cutler Bay and Black Point. All but 1.3 miles of SR 908 was on Silver Palm Drive -- the section just east of South Dixie Highway (U.S. Route 1/SR 5) was bypassed by using US 1 and Bailes Drive in Goulds.

With the exception of the segment in Goulds, a suburb of Miami, SR 908 passed through agricultural areas (primarily landscape nurseries, cornfields, tomato farms, and elephant ear fields). Although the route lost its Florida Department of Transportation State Road status in the 1970s, the area along the road itself has not significantly changed since then, in contrast to the rapid urbanization to the south of it (in Homestead and Florida City) and to the north of it (in Saga Bay and Lakes by the Bay, both now part of Cutler Bay).

One mile south of the eastern terminus of the former SR 908, Black Point has evolved from a popular fishing spot to the site of a major Miami-Dade County marina and a primary access to Biscayne National Park.