Florida's Turnpike

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Florida's Turnpike
Ronald Reagan Turnpike
Route information
Maintained by Florida's Turnpike Enterprise
Length: 264.666 mi[1] (425.939 km)
308.760 miles (496.901 km) via the Homestead Ext.
Existed: January 25, 1957 – present
Major junctions
South end: Golden Glades Interchange
I-95 / US 441 / SR 9 / SR 826 in Miami Gardens
  Homestead Ext / SR 821 in Miramar
I-595 / SR 84 in Davie
SR 869 in Deerfield Beach
US 98 / SR 80 in West Palm Beach
SR 70 / SR 713 in Fort Pierce
SR 60 near Fort Drum
SR 528 in Orlando
I-4 / SR 400 in Orlando
SR 429 in Orlando
US 27 / SR 25 near Leesburg
North end: I-75 / SR 93 near Wildwood
Location
Counties: Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Martin, St. Lucie, Indian River, Okeechobee, Osceola, Orange, Lake, Sumter
Highway system

Florida State Roads
Interstate • US • SR (Pre-1945) • Toll

← SR 90 Toll Florida 91.svg US 92 →

Florida's Turnpike (TPK), designated as the Ronald Reagan Turnpike, and originally known as the Sunshine State Parkway is a north–south toll road that runs 312.522 miles (502.955 km) through 11 counties in the Florida peninsula, from U.S. Route 1 in Florida City, running through Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach where it parallels Interstate 95, and Orlando where it crosses Interstate 4, to its northern terminus at Interstate 75 near Wildwood.[2]

The Turnpike itself is in two sections. The first is the Mainline, a 265-mile (426 km) route from the Golden Glades Interchange (north of Miami) to Wildwood that carries the hidden designation of State Road 91 (SR 91), opened in stages between 1957 and 1964. The second is the 48-mile (77 km) long Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike (HEFT) completed in 1974, that carries the hidden designation of State Road 821 (SR 821) from Florida City (near Homestead) through the suburbs to the west and north of Miami, connecting to the Mainline four miles (6 km) north of the Golden Glades Interchange.[2][3] Florida's Turnpike is considered one of the busiest highways in the country (according to the IBBTA, the highway is the nation's 3rd most heavily traveled toll road[4]).

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[edit] Route description

[edit] Miami to Ft. Pierce

For route info regarding exits 1-47 of Florida's Turnpike, please see Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike.

The Turnpike begins at the Golden Glades Toll Plaza as a six lane highway, just north of the Golden Glades Interchange in Miami Gardens. Two miles north of the toll plaza, it passes by Sun Life Stadium to the west before intersecting with the northern end of the HEFT at the Dade/Broward County line four miles from Golden Glades, continuing the HEFT's mile marker. The highway then quickly goes through the inland suburbs of Miramar, Hollywood, and Davie, with an exit at Hollywood Boulevard (SR 820) at mile 50, and passing west of the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood just south the Griffin Road (SR 818) interchange (exit 53). In Davie, about eight miles north of the Homestead Extension interchange, it intersects with I-595, providing direct access to Alligator Alley and Ft. Lauderdale International Airport. After two more interchanges, one with Sunrise Boulevard (SR 838) in Plantation and Commercial Boulevard (SR 870) in Tamarac, it crosses the Cypress Creek Toll Plaza in North Lauderdale, the second on the mainline. Just a mile north of the toll plaza, it intersects with the Pompano Beach Service Plaza, the first of seven full service plazas on the mainline, and where the Turnpike's Operations center is located. Still in Pompano Beach, it has a northbound only exit with Atlantic Boulevard (SR 814), followed by full interchanges with Coconut Creek Parkway/Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard (Broward County Road 912) (exit 67) and Sample Road (SR 834) (exit 69). It then enters Deerfield Beach with an interchange with the Sawgrass Expressway in Coconut Creek (exit 71), the final interchange in Broward County. The Turnpike then enters Palm Beach County, with an interchange in each Boca Raton (Glades Road, exit 75), Delray Beach (Atlantic Boulevard, exit 81) and Boynton Beach (Boynton Beach Boulevard, exit 86).[5][6][7]

In central Palm Beach County at mile marker 88, the Ticket system of the turnpike begins at the Lantana Toll Plaza. The turnpike narrows to a four lane highway as it goes through a less developed portion of Palm Beach County, crossing with interchanges with Lake Worth Road, followed by the Lake Worth/West Palm Beach Service Plaza at mile marker 94. In West Palm Beach, the highway has interchanges with US 98/SR 80 (Southern Boulevard), a SunPass only interchange at Jog Road, followed by an interchange at Okeechobee Boulevard (exit 99) that heads directly into downtown West Palm Beach. North of the interchange, the highway enters stretch of sparse development between this point and Port St. Lucie, intersecting with the Beeline Highway, another SunPass only interchange before leaving West Palm Beach. Just north of the SR 786 interchange in Palm Beach Gardens (exit 109), I-95 parallels the Turnpike to the east for about 20 miles with I-95 visible from the turnpike as it has an interchange with SR 706 (exit 116) in Jupiter and into Martin County. It breaks off as it crosses the Thomas B. Manuel Bridge over the St. Lucie Canal,[8] crossing I-95 without an interchange just south of the SR 714 interchange, the only exit in Martin County. I-95 heads west towards the western fringes of St. Lucie County development, while the turnpike takes a path along the central areas of the county. The Turnpike has two interchanges in Port St. Lucie, one at Becker Road (exit 138), the third SunPass only exit, and SR 716 (exit 142), followed by the Port St. Lucie-Fort Pierce service plaza at mile marker 144. The turnpike intersects I-95 one last time just south of SR 70 (exit 152) in Fort Pierce, as I-95 continues to head up the east coast of Florida and the turnpike curves inland towards Orlando.[5][7]

[edit] Ft. Pierce to Wildwood

North of the SR 70 interchange, the Turnpike enters a rural area, with cattle farms and orange groves lining the road for most of the section between Fort Pierce and Kissimmee, with only one interchange with SR 60 in Yeehaw Junction (exit 193), although there are two service plazas in this area, one at Fort Drum at mile marker 184 and the other, Canoe Creek, at mile marker 229. Between Fort Pierce and Yeehaw Junction, the turnpike travels in a nearly east-west direction heading inland. Between Yeehaw Junction and Kissimmee, the turnpike, returning to a north-northwest direction towards Orlando, has a 49 mile (47 miles southbound) stretch without an exit. At mile marker 236, the ticket system ends at the Three Lakes toll plaza, as the turnpike enters the Orlando Area and development starts to reappear on the turnpike. The SunPass only interchange located at Kissimmee Park Road, a partial interchange featuring a northbound on- and southbound off-ramp only, is named for Senator N. Ray Carroll, longtime Osceola County banker, citrus grower and cattle rancher.[5][7][9] After interchanges with US 192/US 441 (exit 242 northbound, exit 244 southbound) and the Osceola Parkway (exit 249), it enters Orange County, and Orlando. Exit 254 is a massive interchange with both Orange Blossom Trail and the Beachline Expressway, where the Turnpike expands to eight lanes north of the interchange, and then it intersects with Consulate Drive (exit 255), a southbound only, SunPass only interchange.[5][7]

Florida's Turnpike at the interchange with State Road 429 in Ocoee, Exit 267A

After passing the I-4 interchange (exit 259) near many of Orlando's theme parks, the Turnpike reduces to four lanes and moves in a northwest direction first passing by the Turkey Lake Service Plaza at mile marker 263, where the FDOT district headquarters of the Turnpike are located. The Turnpike has the next two interchanges with Orlando area tollways, the east-west Expressway (exit 265) and the Western Expressway (exit 267A), afterwards becoming a four lane highway for the rest of its journey. It then has two separate interchanges with SR 50 five miles apart at exit 267B and 272 before exiting Orange County. The Turnpike then enters Lake County, heading in a northwestern direction, where hilly countryside become a part of the terrain for the remainder of the expressway. At mile 285, it has a northbound exit/southbound entrance with US 27, followed by the Leesburg toll plaza at mile 288, and a southbound exit/northbound entrance with US 27 at mile 289. The last interchange in Lake County is with County Road 470 (exit 296), which does not provide cash.[5][7]

At mile marker 299, the turnpike, it passes through the final service plaza, the Okahumpka service plaza. Between US 301 (exit 304) and the northern terminus (mile 309) is considered to be a free movement as there is no toll for anyone traveling within this section. The tollway ends with an interchange with I-75 in Wildwood, about 20 miles south of Ocala.[5][7]

[edit] Tolls

Tolls on the turnpike are an average of 7.5 cents per mile for cars and other two-axle vehicles.[10] A trip on the entire turnpike (not including the Homestead Extension) would cost $18.20 with cash, and $14.40 with SunPass.[11] The ticket system is operated between the Lantana and Three Lakes Barrier tolls and on a coin system south of Lantana and north of Kissimmee. The turnpike was originally entirely on the ticket system, but due to congestion in the Miami and Orlando metro areas, a coin system was implemented in those sections of the turnpike in the 1990s.[12] The SunPass electronic toll collection system, in use since 1999, has become the primary method of paying tolls on the turnpike, with 80% of customers using the electronic tolling as of October 2009.[13][14][15] SunPass can be used on most Florida toll roads, and with conjunction with other electronic toll collection systems in Florida (E-Pass and LeeWay). SunPass users benefit from an average of a 25% discount on tolls and access to SunPass-only exit ramps.[16] SunPass transponders are available at the gift shop and gas stations at all service plazas, as well as Publix and CVS/pharmacy stores statewide.[17]

As the Turnpike and its system of roads are primary routes for emergency evacuations, tolls may be suspended, in cooperation with the state's emergency operations center and county governments, when a state or national emergency, most common being a hurricane watch, warrant rapid movement of the population.[18]

[edit] History

[edit] Planning

In the years following World War II, Florida was experiencing unprecedented growth in population and tourism, along with a revitalized citrus industry recovering from a harsh freeze early in the decade; the increased traffic load quickly burdened the state's highway system. South Florida businessman and accountant firm owner Charles B. Costar was concerned that a trip down the east coast of Florida would take days on the available road network, passing through every small beachside town, siphoning off the traffic before visitors reached South Florida. After driving on the Pennsylvania Turnpike during a vacation there, he envisioned a similar high-speed turnpike in Florida. In 1953, Costar led a lobby group that resulted in state legislature creating the "Florida Turnpike Act," which Governor Dan McCarty signed into law on July 11, 1953, as well as the Florida State Turnpike Authority, which had the ability to plan, design, and construct bond-financed toll roads, in which Costar was instrumental to create, to be repaid through the collection of tolls from Turnpike customers.[13]

Thomas B. Manuel, known as the "Father of the Turnpike," served as chairman of the Florida State Turnpike Authority from January 1955 to January 1961. Manuel debated with state legislature members opposed to tollways, emphasizing the need for a good highway system in a tourism-driven state. During the 1955 legislative session, many small-county legislators and others opposed to the Parkway, formed a "kill the 'Pike'" coalition; Manuel won over the legislators at his headquarters in the Floridan Hotel near the capitol. Only four votes against the turnpike were entered at the end of the session's roll call, and the Legislature granted permission to build with a $70 million bond issue in June 1955. A Turnpike bridge in Stuart bears his name to honor his contributions.[13]

[edit] Construction

Construction on the Parkway began on July 4, 1955, starting at what is now the Golden Glades Interchange. In October 1956, all work on the Sunshine State Parkway north of Ft. Pierce was abandoned and plans for a state-long turnpike were shelved due to passage of the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act, which provided for construction of limited-access highways in the corridors that had been under study for the Parkway Extension. One was Interstate 95, which was slated to connect Jacksonville with the rest of the state in a similar alignment to the planned Sunshine State Parkway Coastal Route. This resulted in completion of a truncated 110 miles (180 km) highway that ran from Miami to Fort Pierce, opening on January 25, 1957.[13]

In January 1959, Governor LeRoy Collins, favoring a Parkway extension from Fort Pierce to Orlando, stated that building the Parkway north of Orlando would be unnecessary due to the interstate highway system. In late May 1959, the Board authorized a study for the Parkway Extension to Orlando, and connecting the Interstate routes in Florida. In 1961, Governor Collins approved the sale of $80 million in bonds to finance the parkway extension from Fort Pierce to Wildwood, adding another 156 miles (251 km) of roadway and shifting Interstate 75's route six miles (10 km) eastward from its original alignment. The extension was opened in three stages; a 61 mile section between Yeehaw Junction and Orlando opened on July 17, 1963, a section linking Fort Pierce and Yeehaw Junction opened on November 22, 1963, and the section between Orlando and the northern terminus of I-75 opened on July 24, 1964, completing the mainline.[2][13]

[edit] I-95 realignment

The Bureau of Public Roads approved an Interstate 95 alignment that used 41 miles (66 km) of the Turnpike from PGA Boulevard (SR 786) in Palm Beach Gardens north to SR 70 in Ft. Pierce in the 1950s.[19][20] In the mid-1960s, the State Road Department authorized traffic counts be conducted to determine if the separation of Interstate 95 from the Turnpike was feasible, with arguments that using a concurrent alignment was costing Florida money for Federal Highway funding, but not without the concern of losing toll revenue.[21] Over time, the interstate adopted a route closer to U.S. Route 1, including parallel between Stuart and Palm Beach Gardens, with the turnpike being removed from the I-95 alignment in 1973, and I-95 being completed in 1987.[22][23]

[edit] Reckless spending

With the St. Petersburg Times in 1963, a team led by Martin Waldron wrote a total of 150,000 words as part of the newspaper's coverage of unchecked spending by the Florida Turnpike Authority that led to estimated costs quadrupling from initial estimates of $100 million.[24] Waldron received a tip about excessive spending by John Hammer, chairman of the Florida Turnpike Authority, which included expensive hotels and meals, corsages for his secretary and overcharging for a chartered plane.[25] His coverage earned the newspaper the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1964, the first for the newspaper, and led to changes in the way the state of Florida managed highway construction projects.[24][26]

[edit] System expansion

With Florida still growing in population in the 1960s, preliminary studies began for expanding portions of the Turnpike to six lanes in South Florida and additional north–south highways in that area. Dade County and the State Road Department developed a plan for the West Dade Expressway (now known as the Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike), beginning at the Turnpike near the Dade County/Broward County line, turning westward and southward, terminating at Florida City in southern Dade County. In 1967, the Florida State Turnpike Authority was authorized to perform engineering and feasibility studies on the West Dade Expressway, and the Bee Line Connector extension, now known as the Martin Andersen Beachline Expressway. The results of the studies came in December 1968, but due to an uncertain bond market and an unknown future for the toll authority, decisions on the roads were delayed.[13]

The Florida Department of Transportation was created in July 1969, with the Florida State Turnpike Authority becoming a part of the new FDOT. Soon after, FDOT and Orange and Dade County officials agreed the Bee Line Connector and Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike would be financed by revenue bond issues as extensions of Florida's Turnpike. The Beeline Expressway opened in 1973 and the Homestead Extension opened in 1974 as a part of the Turnpike mainline.[13]

[edit] Later changes

From its opening in January 1957 to April 12, 1968, the road was known as the Sunshine State Parkway (SSP). On April 12, 1968, the road was renamed to its current name of Florida's Turnpike, to identify that the toll road was located in Florida and to avoid confusion from other Florida landmarks such as the Sunshine Skyway Bridge.[13][27] The Sunshine State Parkway moniker was commonly used for the next decade and remnants of the name can be seen on several Turnpike maintenance buildings.[28][29]

On September 1, 1971, the Turnpike switched from a sequential exit numbering system to a hybrid numbering system, where adjacent exit numbers differed by 4 south of SR 60 (exit 60 at the time) and 5 north of SR 60.[30][31]

Between 1974 and 1986, the turnpike experienced little changes outside of maintenance as the original bonds on the road were being paid off.[13] During this period, the turnpike experienced the first of five toll hikes on February 15, 1979, when the cost of a trip from Golden Glades to Wildwood increased to $5.90 from $4.80, the road's original toll.[32]

In 1988, the Office of Florida's Turnpike was formed, with $220 million worth of revenue bonds being sold in April 1989 to renovate the toll plazas, service centers and improve the road with the reduction of urban congestion. Fifteen new interchanges were planned in the early 1990s with four of them opened by July 1991.[13] Also during this time, sections of the turnpike were converted from a ticket system to a coin system due to urban congestion, with several mainline toll plazas being built. The section between the Golden Glades Plaza and Lantana was converted in 1990, with the opening of the Cypress Creek and Lantana Toll Plazas. Coin baskets were installed in 1994 after years of delays.[33][34][35] The portion north of Kissimmee was converted in on August 20, 1995, with the addition of the Three Lakes Toll Plaza and the Wildwood toll plaza at mile 304 being replaced by the Leesburg toll barrier on July 7, 1995.[36][37][38]

The improvements also came with a series of toll hikes between 1989 and 1993 to make the toll rates more uniform six cents per mile throughout the turnpike's length. The first one was enacted on April 1, 1989, which raised the rate to $9.95.[39] The second one, on July 1, 1991, only effected the section north of Lantana, raising the trip's cost to $12.35.[40][41] The last one took effect on July 11, 1993, increasing the trip's cost to $14.40.[42]

In 1989, the Turnpike switched its exit numbering system to the mile-log system, starting from the south end of the Homestead Extension, 13 years before Florida's interstates integrated it into their system.[30][43][44]

In 1998, Florida's Turnpike was designated by Florida legislature as the Ronald Reagan Turnpike, with 20 signs throughout the turnpike showing the designation.[45]

In April 1999, SunPass was introduced to the public, with SunPass only interchanges and lanes being introduced throughout the 2000s.[13] The latest toll hike took effect on March 7, 2004, increasing the toll rate for non SunPass users to $18.20, with SunPass users still using the 1993 toll rates.[46][47]

The HEFT ceased cash toll collections in February 2011, becoming an exclusive electronic toll road, similar to Ontario's 407 ETR toll road.[48] The manned toll plazas currently on the expressway have been removed, and the only ways to pay will be either by SunPass transponders or a new toll-by-plate program.

[edit] Services

[edit] Service plazas

Turkey Lake Plaza

Eight service plazas are located along the Turnpike, spaced about 45 miles (72 km) apart. All eight plazas are open 24 hours a day and located on the center median of the turnpike for access from both directions and offer Shell gas, internet access, travel and tourism info and tickets, picnic areas, TV news, gift shops offering Florida Lottery, family-friendly restrooms, and public phones. A convenience store/gas station is located at the Snapper Creek plaza on the Homestead Extension of the Turnpike, while the remaining seven are full-service plazas. The seven full-service plazas feature Dunkin' Donuts, as well as a selection of other fast food restaurants, including KFC, Nature's Table Cafe, Nathan's Famous, Earl of Sandwich, Edy's Ice Cream, Cheeburger Cheeburger and Checkers. Three of the service plazas (Pompano, Port St. Lucie/Fort Pierce, Turkey Lake) also provide E85 ethanol.[49]

The operation of Sunshine State Parkway gas stations and service centers were originally bid out under separate contracts, and as a result, such brands as Amoco, Texaco and Union Oil operated concurrently along the Parkway, with varying levels of service and pricing.[50] This practice was discontinued in 1995 when all service center operations were combined to improve supply and continuity of service; with Martin Petroleum, a Florida Corporation, operating the stations with Citgo brand fuel at its stations.[51][52] Since then, the Venezuelan government, under President Hugo Chávez, nationalized Citgo, and in 2006, political controversy resulted in a movement to remove the brand from the turnpike.[53]

In 2009, Areas U.S.A. signed a 30-year contract for operation of food and retail concessions, taking over operations from Martin Petroleum and HMSHost. Florida Turnpike Services, L.L.C., Areas' partner, replaced the Citgo brand with Shell gas, and Areas replaced restaurant brands including Starbucks, Burger King, Popeye's and Miami Subs Grill with the current lineup.[54][55] The reconstruction and renovation of six of the service plazas began on November 1, 2010, to be completed in 2012. The Okahumpka and Ft. Pierce plazas will begin reconstruction when the other plaza projects are complete. Total renovation costs are estimated at $160 million.[56]

[edit] Intelligent transportation systems

Florida's Turnpike Enterprise is operating with an intelligent transportation systems (ITS), used to detect and manage incidents on the Enterprise's roadways. The ITS are managed by two traffic management centers (TMC), one located in Pompano Beach, and the other located in Ocoee, operated by Florida's Turnpike Enterprise 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The system, consisting of closed-circuit television (CCTV) traffic cameras, dynamic message signs (DMS), highway advisory radio (HAR), and radar vehicle detection system (RVDS), allow the TMC to see anything from congestion to crashes, to disabled vehicles that may pose a threat to the Turnpike's motorists. When necessary, the TMC will activate the dynamic message signs (DMS) and highway advisory radio stations (HAR) to alert motorists of the potential situation, as well as AMBER Alerts.[57][58]

[edit] Road Rangers

The Safety Patrol (also known as Road Rangers, and currently sponsored by State Farm) offers free roadside assistance on Florida's Turnpike mainline and Homestead Extension. Utility trucks patrol one of 12 designated zones looking for stranded motorists to provide services such as fuel, tire changes, use of a cellular phone; and also watching out for crashes and road debris. The Traffic Management Center dispatches them to accidents, debris removal, disabled vehicles, or anything that may potentially affect the traveling public; they also assist the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) with traffic maintenance with incidents involving blockage of lanes.[59]

[edit] Call boxes

Motorist-aid call boxes are located on both outside shoulders of the road every mile (1.6 km), and send a signal indicating the need for gasoline, repair (tire or engine), or emergency services (police, ambulance, or firefighters).[60]

[edit] Future

Work began in 2006, and is ongoing as of July 2009, along the Turnpike in Broward County to widen the section from Griffin Road (exit 53) to Atlantic Boulevard (exit 66) from six to eight lanes.[61] Plans are in the works to widen the road from the Lake Worth Road interchange (exit 93) to the Martin County line from four to eight lanes.[62]

The $197.4 million project to add two lanes in each direction between Interstate 4 and Beulah Road was complete in November 2010. Phase 2 widening, from Beulah Road to just north of SR 429, includes auxiliary lanes between SR 408 and SR 429. This section of roadway will be 13 lanes wide upon completion of construction, including an interchange with SR 50. This project is scheduled for completion at the end of 2010.[63] Further widening, from north of SR 429 to the Turnpike's northernmost interchange with SR 50 west of Winter Garden, began in January 2009 and will be complete in 2012.[63]

In November 2009, it was announced that the HEFT will cease cash toll collections in February 2011, becoming an exclusive electronic toll road, similar to Ontario's 407 ETR toll road.[48] The manned toll plazas currently on the expressway will be removed, and the only ways to pay will be either by SunPass transponders or a new toll-by-plate program. The section of the Turnpike mainline between the Golden Glades Interchange and I-595 is planned to be converted in 2012, with the expectation that the Turnpike will eventually be toll-booth free.[15][64]

A study is currently under way to eventually reconstruct the northern end of the Turnpike at its junction with Interstate 75 to improve the traffic merge pattern between I-75 and State Road 44, with congestion and some drivers suddenly changing lanes on I-75 between the Turnpike junction and SR 44 a major issue in the area.[65][66] The project is not scheduled for construction funding until 2015.[65]

The Turnpike Enterprise is also studying possible developer-funded future interchanges near mile marker 279 (servicing Minneola and Clermont) and at Sumter County Road 468 (mile marker 300, servicing The Villages and Lady Lake). Neither project is funded or scheduled for construction at this time.[67]

[edit] Exit list

North of the HEFT/mainline intersection, the mainline continues the mileage from mile 47 from the HEFT. The spur of the mainline south of the HEFT to the Golden Glades Interchange assumes an alternate numbering system that suffixes an X to each exit number.[43] All tolls described assume the toll is paid in cash.[11]

County Location Mile[3][5] Exit[43] Destinations[43] Notes[11]
Miami-Dade Miami Gardens 0.000 0X I-95 / US 441 / SR 9 / SR 826 – Beaches Golden Glades Interchange; Southern terminus
0.000 Golden Glades barrier toll ($1.00, $.75 with SunPass)
2.458 2X SR 854 (Northwest 199th Street) – Stadium Eastbound SR 854 to southbound Florida's Turnpike only
Broward Miramar 3.334 4X Homestead Ext south / SR 821 – Homestead Southbound SR 91 takes exit 47A from the Turnpike mainline
3.695 SR 852 (County Line Road) Entrance only
Hollywood 3.762–
47.856		 Mileage from Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike begins, ends
50.339 49 SR 820 (Hollywood Boulevard, Pines Boulevard) Toll $.50
Davie 54.189 53 SR 818 (Griffin Road) Toll $.25 (No SunPass discount)
55.914 54 I-595 / US 441 / SR 7 / SR 84 – Fort Lauderdale
Lauderhill 59.302 58 SR 838 (Sunrise Boulevard) Toll $.50
Tamarac 63.024 62 SR 870 (Commercial Boulevard) Toll $.75
Pompano Beach 64.524 Cypress Creek barrier toll ($1.00, $.75 with SunPass)
66.024 Pompano Beach service plaza
66.478 66 SR 814 (Atlantic Boulevard) Northbound exit and southbound entrance; drivers who wish to enter northbound are directed to nearby NW 31st Ave (SR 849).
67.612 67 SR 849 (NW 31st Avenue) / CR 912 (Coconut Creek Parkway, Martin Luther King Boulevard) Toll $.50
69.626 69 SR 834 (Sample Road) Toll $.25 (No SunPass discount)
Deerfield Beach 71.780 71 SR 869 south (Sawgrass Expressway) – Coral Springs, Key West
Palm Beach Boca Raton 76.086 75 SR 808 (Glades Road) Toll $.25 (No SunPass discount)
Delray Beach 82.000 81 SR 806 (Atlantic Avenue) Toll $.50 (No SunPass discount)
Boynton Beach 87.136 86 SR 804 (Boynton Beach Boulevard) – Boynton Beach Toll $.75
89.536 Lantana barrier toll (Southern end of ticket system)
Greenacres 93.563 93 SR 802 (Lake Worth Road) – Lake Worth
94.763 Lake Worth – West Palm Beach service plaza
West Palm Beach 97.664 97 US 98 / SR 80 (Southern Boulevard) – West Palm Beach
99.576 98 Jog Road – West Palm Beach SunPass-only interchange, northbound exit and southbound entrance, opened on September 14, 2007[68]
100.446 99 SR 704 (Okeechobee Boulevard) – West Palm Beach
106.842 107 SR 710 (Bee Line Highway) SunPass-only interchange opened July 27, 2006[69]
Palm Beach Gardens 109.634 109 SR 786 (PGA Boulevard) – Palm Beach Gardens
Jupiter 116.507 116 SR 706 – Jupiter, Okeechobee
Martin Palm City 134.662 133 SR 714 – Stuart
St. Lucie Port St. Lucie 138.408 138 Becker Road SunPass-only interchange, opened on May 11, 2007[70]
143.073 142 SR 716 (Port Saint Lucie Boulevard) – Port Saint Lucie
145.273 Port St. Lucie – Fort Pierce service plaza
Fort Pierce 152.903 152 SR 70 – Fort Pierce, Vero Beach, Okeechobee
Indian River
 No major junctions
Okeechobee 184.703 Fort Drum service plaza
Indian River
 No major junctions
Osceola Yeehaw Junction 193.183 193 SR 60 / US 441 – Yeehaw Junction, Lake Wales, Vero Beach
230.283 Canoe Creek service plaza
236.583 Three Lakes barrier toll (Northern end of ticket system)
Kissimmee 239.454 240 Kissimmee Park Road Southbound exit and northbound entrance; SunPass-only; Toll $1.00.
Opened January 6, 2007;[71] Designated Senator N. Ray Carroll interchange by Florida Legislature in 2006.[9]
242.694 242 US 192 / US 441 – Kissimmee, St. Cloud Northbound exit only
244.624 244 US 192 / US 441 – Kissimmee, St. Cloud No exit northbound, toll $1.25 southbound exit
248.801 249 Osceola Parkway, Dart Boulevard
Orange Orlando 255.367 254 US 17 / US 92 / US 441 (Orange Blossom Trail) / SR 528 (Beachline Expressway)
255.689 255 Consulate Drive Southbound exit; SunPass-only, opened July 27, 2004[72]
259.705 259 I-4 / SR 400 – Orlando, Tampa
263.805 Turkey Lake service plaza
Gotha 265.967 265 SR 408 east (east–west Expressway) – Orlando, Titusville
Ocoee 268.075 267A SR 429 (Western Expressway) – Apopka, Tampa
267.881 267B SR 50 – Ocoee
Oakland 273.016 272 SR 50 – Winter Garden, Clermont Designated the Senator Richard Langley Interchange by the 2007 Florida Legislature.[73]
Lake Little Everglades 285.867 285 US 27 / SR 25 – Leesburg, Clermont Northbound exit and southbound entrance
288.325 Leesburg barrier toll ($2.50, $2.00 with SunPass)
289.125 289 US 27 / SR 25 – Tavares, Clermont Southbound exit and northbound entrance
296.689 296 CR 470 – Leesburg Exact change or SunPass only (Opened January 22, 2005)[74]
Sumter 300.189 Okahumpka service plaza
Wildwood 305.401 304 US 301 – Wildwood, Bushnell Southern end of free movement section
308.760 309 I-75 north / SR 93 – Ocala Southbound exit and northbound entrance, northern end of free movement section; northern terminus

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