Florida State Road 884
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| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by FDOT | ||||
| Length: | 5.289 mi[1] (8.512 km) | |||
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| West end: |
 US 41 in Fort Myers | |||
| East end: |
 I-75 in Fort Myers | |||
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State Road 884 (SR 884), along with County Road 884 (CR 884), together create Lee County, Florida's primary east–west partially controlled access highway, linking Cape Coral in the western portion of the county to Lehigh Acres and Alva in the eastern portion. Currently, the highway consists of State Road 884, and two segments of County Road 884 on each end, and the entire highway is about 37.5 miles (60.4 km) long. The highway runs through the southern incorporated limits of the city of Fort Myers and through downtown Cape Coral, and has become a major commuter route.
Route description
County Road 884 (Cape Coral and Fort Myers)
County Road 884 begins in Cape Coral as Veterans Parkway, a limited-access highway, heading south from the intersection with SR 78 and then turning east, with an interchange at Del Prado Boulevard (County Road 867A). After crossing the Caloosahatchee River on the Midpoint Bridge into Fort Myers the highway, it is known as Colonial Boulevard, a controlled-access road. Following intersections with McGregor Boulevard (SR 867), and Summerlin Road (CR 869), it has an interchange at Cleveland Avenue (Tamiami Trail-U.S. Highway 41), where it becomes State Road 884.
State Road 884
State Road 884 begins at the eastern end of the Tamiami Trail intersection, heading east through the southern end of Fort Myers. The route intersects State Road 739 (Metro Parkway) and passes by the Calusa Nature Center and Planetarium before interchanging with Interstate 75 west of Lehigh Acres. State Road 884 officially ends just east of its intersection of Forum Boulevard (just east of I-75).
County Road 884 (Lehigh Acres and Alva)
The eastern half of CR 884 begins where SR 884 left off, heading east towards an intersection with SR 82 in Lehigh Acres, and becomes Lee Boulevard. It eventually becomes Leeland Heights Boulevard before turning north on Joel Boulevard. The road terminates at an intersection with Palm Beach Boulevard (SR 80) near Alva.
History
The full length of State Road 884 was completed by the late 1970s to connect the area to the then-newly constructed Interstate 75, where it terminated at the time.
In the mid-1970s, Florida Department of Transportation designated the segment east of State Road 82 to Palm Beach Boulevard (State Road 80), known then as State Roads 82B and 873, as secondary state roads. They were eventually redesignated County Road 884.[2] This was part of a set of FDOT road redesignations that transformed the map of southern Florida. Colonial Boulevard was extended beyond the interstate to connect with Lee Boulevard at SR 82 in the late 1980s, creating a continuous route.[3]
The route was extended east of McGregor Boulevard into Cape Coral with the completion of the Midpoint Memorial Bridge and Veterans Parkway in 1997.
In the late 2000s, improvements were planned for the corridor between Chiquita Boulevard and I-75, which included overpasses and express lanes. The plans were abandoned due to local opposition.[4]
Major intersections
The entire route is in Lee County.
| Location | mi[1][5] | km | Destinations | Notes | |
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| Cape Coral | 0.000 | 0.000 |    SR 78 east / CR 78 west (Southwest Pine Island Road) / CR 765 north (Burnt Store Road) | ||
| 3.843 | 6.185 | Chiquita Boulevard South | |||
| 5.907 | 9.506 | Santa Barbara Boulevard | |||
| 8.0[6] | 12.9 |  CR 867A (Del Prado Boulevard) | interchange | ||
| 8.6[6] | 13.8 | toll plaza (westbound only) | |||
| 9.8– 11.1[6] | 15.8– 17.9 | Midpoint Memorial Bridge over Caloosahatchee River | |||
| Fort Myers | 11.4[6] | 18.3 |  SR 867 (McGregor Boulevard) | interchange; westbound exit and eastbound entrance | |
| 11.787 | 18.969 |  CR 869 south (Summerlin Road) | |||
| 12.544 | 20.188 | US 41 (Cleveland Avenue / SR 45) | interchange; west end of state maintenance | ||
| 13.863 | 22.310 |  SR 739 (Metro Parkway) – Fort Myers Beach, Sanibel, Captiva | |||
| 16.656 | 26.805 |  CR 865 (Ortiz Avenue / Six Mile Cypress Parkway) – Fort Myers Beach, Sanibel, Captiva, Nature Center | |||
| 17.16 | 27.62 | I-75 (SR 93) – Tampa, Naples | I-75 exit 136 | ||
| 17.833 | 28.699 | east end of state maintenance | |||
| Fort Myers | 18.5 | 29.8 |  CR 885 south (Treeline Avenue) | ||
| 19.5 | 31.4 |  SR 82 | |||
| Alva | 37.603 | 60.516 |  SR 80 (Palm Beach Boulevard) to I-75 – Fort Myers, LaBelle | ||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||
References
- 1 2 FDOT straight line diagrams, accessed March 2014
- ↑ General Highway Map, Lee County, January 1976, reprinted January 1980
- ↑ "Florida 884 - Colonial Boulevard". AA Roads. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
- ↑ Revehl, Rachel (4 April 2010). "Fort Myers to discuss Colonial Boulevard express lanes". Retrieved 28 April 2015.
- ↑ FDOT GIS data, accessed January 2014
- 1 2 3 4 Google Maps distance