Florida State Road 527
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 State Road 527 | ||||
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 SR 527 in red, CR 527 in blue, CR 527A in purple | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by FDOT | ||||
| Length | 9.8 mi[1][2] (15.8 km) | |||
| Existed | 1945–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end |  SR 482 near Belle Isle | |||
| North end |   US 17 / US 92 in Winter Park | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Florida | |||
| Counties | Orange | |||
| Highway system | ||||
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State Road 527 (SR 527) is a major arterial road through the Orlando MSA extending 20 miles (32 km) through Orange County.[3] Its southern terminus is at SR 482. Much of the route runs in close proximity to the SunRail commuter railroad line.
Route description
[edit]Florida State Route 527 originates at an intersection with Sand Lake Road, also known as Florida State Route 482. It travels northward along South Orange Avenue, eventually passing through the center of downtown Orlando to become North Orange Avenue in the block between Pine Street and Central Boulevard. It continues as North Orange Avenue in a north-easterly direction, crossing Orlando Avenue and terminating its ten and a half-mile journey its intersection with Fairbanks Avenue in Winter Park.
History
[edit]SR 3A was defined by number in 1935 state law, chapter 17341, approved May 27, 1935:
- A certain road described as extending from the intersection of Orange Avenue and Fairbanks Avenue in Winter Park, then Southerly on Orange Avenue to its intersection with State Road 22 in the City of Orlando.
This was established to keep this section of former SR 3, which was to be bypassed around 1937 along the Orlando Shortcut (now Orlando Avenue) and Mills Avenue, a state road (and probably part of US 17/US 92). South of SR 22 (Colonial Drive), Orange Avenue was still part of SR 2.
SR 3A was extended in both directions by number in 1939 state law chapter 19049, approved May 12, 1939:
- Beginning at the point where the new location of State Road No. 3 intersects with the old location near the south line of the Town of Lake Maitland, thence along said old location thereof and along Park, Fairbanks and Orange Avenue in Winter Park, Orange Avenue in Orlando, and such route as may be selected by the State Road Department from Orange Avenue to Kuhl Avenue in Orlando, to the South city limits thereof, thence along the present Orlando and Kissimmee road to the county-line between Orange and Osceola Counties.
This kept the rest of old SR 3 in Winter Park in the State Road system, as well as old SR 2 south of SR 22 (Colonial Drive), which was bypassed around 1939.
Some state maps show SR 3A on old SR 2 north of Kissimmee in Osceola County and through Maitland into Seminole County, but it doesn't appear that these were added, unless they were added in 1941 when most of the through roads in Orange County were designated as State Roads.
In the 1945 renumbering, most of SR 3A became SR 527; SR 527 extended south into Osceola County but not north to Seminole County. The part between Orlando Avenue and the Park Avenue/Fairbanks Avenue intersection in Winter Park instead became part of SR 426, and was a gap in SR 527.
Major intersections
[edit]The entire route is in Orange County.
| Location | mi[1][2] | km | Destinations | Notes | |
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| Pine Castle | 0.000 | 0.000 |    SR 482 (McCoy Road / Sand Lake Road) / CR 527A south (Orange Avenue) – Orlando International Airport, Florida Mall | ||
| Belle Isle | 1.537 | 2.474 | Oak Ridge Road (CR 506 west) | ||
| Edgewood | 1.695 | 2.728 | Hoffner Avenue (CR 506 east) | ||
| Orlando | 5.640 | 9.077 |   To I-4 / Gore Street | north end of state maintenance | |
| 5.9 | 9.5 |    To SR 408 west / Lucerne Circle North | |||
| 6.1 | 9.8 |   To SR 408 east / I-4 east / Anderson Street | former SR 5098 east | ||
| 6.2 | 10.0 | To I-4 / South Street | |||
| 6.7 | 10.8 |  SR 526 (Robinson Street) | |||
| 7.2 | 11.6 |   US 17 / US 92 / SR 50 (Colonial Drive / SR 600) to I-4 west | south end of state maintenance | ||
| 7.6 | 12.2 | To I-4 / North Magnolia Avenue / South Ivanhoe Boulevard | |||
| 8.6 | 13.8 | To I-4 / Princeton Street | |||
| Winter Park | 9.8 | 15.8 | US 17 / US 92 (Orlando Avenue / SR 15 / SR 600) | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b FDOT straight line diagrams Archived March 6, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, accessed January 2014
- ^ a b Google Maps directions
- ^ Florida 527 / County Road 527 North. AA roads.[self-published source?]
External links
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Media related to Florida State Road 527 at Wikimedia Commons- Florida Route Log (SR 527)
