Interstate 75 in Florida

 

	I-75
Get started	Hiealeah
End	Jennings
Length	471 mi
Length	758 km
Route 1 → Miami2 138th Street 4 Miami Gardens Drive 5 → Orlando 7 Miramar Parkway 9 Pines Boulevard 11 Sheridan Street 13 Griffin Road 15 Royal Palm Boulevard 19 → Miami 21 Indian Terrace 22 Glades Parkway 23 → Weston 49 Snake Road 80 Immokalee 101 Naples 105 Golden Gate 107 Naples 111 Naples Park 116 Bonita Springs 123 Estero 128 Alico Road 129 Southwest Florida Airport 131 Cape Coral 136 Lehigh Acres 138 Immokalee 139 Fort Myers 141 LaBelle 143 North Fort Myers 158 Tuckers Grade 161 Punta Gorda 164 → Arcadia 167 Port Charlotte 170 Arcadia 179 North Port 182 North Port 191 England 193 Venice 195 Laurel 200 Osprey 205 Siesta Key 207 Lake Sarasota 210 Sarasota 213 Sarasota 217 Arcadia 220 Wauchula 224 → Ellenton 228 → St Petersburg 229 Parish 240 Ruskin 246 Apollo Beach 250 Gibsontown 254 Riverview 256 → Tampa 257 Brandon 260 Mango 261 → Tampa / Orlando 265 Temple Terrace 266 Morris Bridge Boulevard 270 Bruce B. Downs Blvd 274 → Tampa 275 Land O’Lakes 279 Wesley 285 San Antonio 293 Dade City 301 → Orlando 309 Webster 314 Bushnell 321 Sumterville 328 → Orlando / Miami 329 Wildwood 341 Dunnellon 350 Silver Springs 352 Ocala 354 Ocala 358 77th Street 368 Irvine 374 Micanopy 382 Gainesville 384 Gainesville 387 Gainesville 390 Gainesville 399 High Springs 404 High Springs 414 → Lake City 423 Lake City 427 → Lake City 435 → Jacksonville / Tallahassee 439 White Springs 451 → Live Oak 460 Madison 467 Jennings Georgia state line → Atlanta

Interstate 75 or I -75 is an Interstate Highway in the US state of Florida. The highway forms a north-south route in the state and runs from Miami through Tampa to the Georgia border at Jennings. The Alligator Alley is a toll road over a length of 125 kilometers, with only 2 exits on this route. Aside from Alligator Alley, the entirety of I-75 in Florida has a minimum of 2×3 lanes. I-75 is Florida’s longest highway at 758 kilometers.

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Travel directions

The interchange of I-75, I-595 and the Sawgrass Parkway at Weston.

Miami

Interstate 75 begins in the west of the Miami metropolitan area, at the large suburb of Hialeah. The interstate begins at the interchange with State Route 826 and State Route 924. The highway here has 2×4 lanes and 2×2 express lanes and turns almost directly north, through the suburb of Miami Lakes. The many suburbs along the highway are often quite densely built with lakes in and around the residential areas. At the Miramar suburb, one crosses State Route 821, also known as Florida’s Turnpike. One then enters Miramar itself, a suburb built around small artificial lakes. The corridor of I-75 is wide with 12 lanes. Weston comes to a major interchange where I-75 turns west, continuing straight on State Route 869 as the Sawgrass Expressway, and east on Interstate 595 to Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood.

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Southern Florida

The highway then runs for 140 kilometers in a straight line to the west, this part is also known as the Alligator Alley or Everglades Parkway. This section is a toll road, through the Everglades, a swamp and mangrove area that is virtually uninhabited, the 120 kilometer part which is a toll road has only 2 exits. One passes through the Big Cypress National Preserve. The Everglades National Park is a little further south. Alligators can be visible from the highway. One then reaches the urbanized west coast around Naples, which is itself a small town, but the center of a suburbanized region on the coast. From Naples, I-75 has 2×3 lanes again. I-75 turns north again here to follow the west coast of Florida.

You pass Fort Myers, which with Cape Coral and other suburbs is a suburban area with more than half a million inhabitants. I-75 continuously has 2×3 lanes here. A 2.5 kilometer long 2×3 lane bridge crosses an estuary near Punta Gorda. The highway has a wide median strip in many places, tens to hundreds of meters wide. It follows one metropolitan area after another, reaching the Sarasota region, part of the Tampa Bay region, but forming a separate urban region here. I-75 passes along the eastern side of this area and has 2×3 lanes of traffic here as well. Just past Bradenton it follows the interchange with Interstate 275. I-275 runs to the peninsula of St. Petersburg.

Tampa

I-75 past Tampa.

I-75 then passes through less built-up areas, parallel to Tampa Bay. The highway has 2×3 lanes here and after ten kilometers the first suburbs begin to appear along the highway. On the east side of Tampa, the Crosstown Expressway, or State Route 618, ends at I-75. The Crosstown Expressway connects downtown Tampa to I-75. A little further north, you cross Interstate 4, which runs from Tampa via Orlando to Daytona Beach on the east coast. Then you pass through Tampa’s northern suburbs, built around swamps and rainforests. The countryside here is also highly urbanized. At Land ‘O Lakes, Interstate 275. joinsagain in. After this, the highway has a short stretch of 2×4 lanes and narrows from Wesley Chapel South to 2×3 lanes.

Northern Florida

I-75 then passes over a slightly less low-lying part of Florida and there are also some meadows here. This is followed by about 100 kilometers through a fairly quiet area. Both east and west of the highway are some small towns, but there are no large agglomerations. The highway does have 2×3 lanes continuously on the rest of the route through Florida. At Ridge Manor, you cross US 98, which runs from Brooksville to Lakeland. At Wildwood, Florida’s Turnpike ends at Interstate 75, passing the town of Ocala, a regional center. One passes along the west side of it. Then another 40 kilometers through the countryside, after which you pass Gainesville. Just south of Lake City you cross US 41.

Lakeland is the last major town in Florida and also has a major interchange with Interstate 10, the highway from Mobile and Tallahassee to Jacksonville. Traffic from the west turns south here to go to Tampa, Orlando or Miami. Further north, the area becomes more forested again, approaching the border region with Georgia. Just past Jennings, the 2×3 highway crosses the Georgia border, and Interstate 75 continues in Georgia to Atlanta.