Florida State Road 9336
Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox road State Road 9336 (SR 9336), also known in parts as the Ingraham Highway, Tower Road and West Palm Drive, is an Template:Convert two- to four-lane road in Miami-Dade County, in the U.S. state of Florida. The route is the only signed four-digit state road in Florida. The route connects US 1, and the Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike by proxy, in Florida City with the Everglades National Park, acting as the park's primary mode of entry. The road continues on from its western terminus at the national park's entrance as Main Park Road for another Template:Convert, providing access to many of the park's facilities and the ghost town of Flamingo, in Monroe County, at its western end.
Route description
The Florida Department of Transportation states that SR 9336 begins at the entrance to the Everglades National Park.<ref name="SLD" /> Heading northeast from there, SR 9336 is known as the Ingraham Highway as it travels through rural south-western Miami-Dade County as a two-laned road. Just before crossing the Aerojet canal, SR 9336 turns east and continues through farmland, turning again to the northeast after approximately Template:Convert. After crossing another canal, the Ingraham Highway turns east once more and becomes more urban, passing by a housing estate. At its eastern end, outside the Dade Correctional Institution and just over Template:Convert from its western terminus, SR 9336 reaches a four-way stop intersection and continues north out of it along Tower Road. Although SR 9336 travels through farmland for the next Template:Convert, the surroundings become more urbanised as it approaches West Palm Drive where, at another four-way stop intersection, SR 9336 travels east along that road. Here, SR 9336 enters Florida City,<ref name="CensusMapFLMiDa133">Template:Cite map</ref> and enters suburbia after one block east along West Palm Drive, continuing eastwards past shops, churches and schools. Through Florida City, it acts as the city's grid plan's latitudinal baseline. At 6th Avenue, West Palm Drive becomes a divided four-laned road, and remains as such for the rest of its journey; Template:Convert later, after passing the Florida City City Hall, the southern terminus of the South Miami-Dade Busway and more shops, SR 9336 intersects with Krome Avenue (former SR 997). One block further east, and now designated as East Palm Drive, SR 9336 terminates at US 1.<ref name="SLD" /><ref name="Google maps">Template:Google maps</ref>
West of SR 9336's western terminus, Main Park Road extends for another Template:Convert to Flamingo,<ref name="Main Park Road">Template:Google maps</ref> through various ecosystem areas of the Everglades National Park.<ref name="NPS map">Template:Cite map</ref> East of SR 9336's terminus, East Palm Drive (also known as Southwest 344th Street) extends along the former SR 906 towards the Homestead-Miami Speedway, Biscayne National Park and the Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station.<ref name="Palm Drive">Template:Google maps</ref>
History
Template:Wikisource/outer core{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|showblankpositional=1|unknown=|1|2|3|diagnose|has|italic|italics|lang|nocat|position|title|wislink|works|wslink}} Excluding the easternmost two blocks, SR 9336 was (with SR 997) part of the former SR 27, which connected Flamingo in the Everglades to US 27. The easternmost two blocks consisted of the former SR 906, which continued to Biscayne National Park. The designation was changed in the early 1980s because of confusion between the state road and the U.S. Highway.
Main Park Road, formerly the Ingraham Highway in its entirety, began construction in 1915 to connect Florida City to Flamingo, then a town on the shores of Florida Bay, primarily by using the spoil from dredging the Homestead Canal beside the road. The road had reached as far as Paradise Key, now the Royal Palm area of the Everglades National Park,<ref name="ParadiseKey">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> when it was dedicated with the Royal Palm State Park on November 23, 1916, as the Ingraham Highway, and named for James E. Ingraham, the president of the Model Land Company and vice-president of the associated Florida East Coast Railway.<ref name="RoyalPalm">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Construction of the road continued west of Paradise Key, and was hampered by difficulties such as subaqueous caverns and the onset of the First World War, with only about Template:Convert built by December, 1917.<ref name="sofia">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="OldIngrahamHwy">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> After the designation of the Everglades National Park in 1947,<ref name="Everglades History">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> the SR 27 designation was removed and a detour was created north onto higher ground, as the road was prone to flooding during periods of high water, with portions of the old road re-purposed as park trails or removed.<ref name="OldIngrahamHwy" /> The creation (and refilling) of the canal, as well as digging and blocking culverts under the road have affected flows of fresh and salt water within this part of the Everglades National Park.<ref name="sofia" />
Major intersections
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See also
References
External links
- SR 9336 in Florida at AA Roads