Florida State Road 551

State Road 551 marker

State Road 551
Route information
Maintained by FDOT
Length: 8.785 mi[1] (14.138 km)
Existed: 1947 – present
Major junctions
South end: SR 15 in southeast Orlando
  SR 408 in Azalea Park
North end: SR 426 at Goldenrod
Highway system
SR 549SR 552

State Road 551 (SR 551), locally known as Goldenrod Road and Palmetto Avenue, forms a northsouth surface street bypass of Orlando to the east.

Route description

The Goldenrod Road Extension, a Central Florida Expressway Authority project, connects to SR 551 just north of SR 15 and goes south to SR 528. South of this intersection, the road becomes known as Heintzelman Boulevard and ends at the South Access Road just south of the Orlando International Airport.

History

SR 15A was assigned on December 5, 1947 along pre-1945 State Road 287:

Since then, two changes have been made:

Major intersections

The entire route is in Orange County.

Locationmi[1]kmDestinationsNotes
Orlando-0.38−0.61 SR 15 (Hoffner Road)
 0.0000.000south end of state maintenance at Beatty Drive
 2.2403.605 SR 552 west (Curry Ford Road)
Azalea Park3.9436.346Lake Underhill Road (CR 526)
4.0446.508 SR 408 Titusville, OrlandoSR 408 exit 16
 5.9399.558 SR 50 (East Colonial Drive) Orlando, Titusville
 7.94412.785University Boulevard
Goldenrod8.78514.138 SR 426 (Aloma Avenue)
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 FDOT straight line diagrams, accessed January 2014