Florida State Road 24

State Road 24 (SR 24) is an eastwest state highway that runs between Cedar Key on the Gulf of Mexico and Waldo, Florida, at US 301. State Road 24 runs along a former branch of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad. This branch was originally owned by the Florida Railway and Navigation Company, and used to lead to ferries to both Pensacola, Florida and New Orleans, Louisiana. It also passes through Rosewood, site of the infamous 1923 massacre.

State Road 24 marker

State Road 24

SR 24 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by FDOT
Length71.527 mi[1] (115.112 km)
Existed1945–present
Major junctions
West end2nd Street in Cedar Key
Major intersections US 19 / US 98 in Otter Creek

US 27 Alt. in Bronson
US 27 / US 41 in Archer
I-75 in Gainesville
US 441 / SR 20 / SR 26 in Gainesville
East end US 301 in Waldo
Location
CountryUnited States
StateFlorida
CountiesLevy, Alachua
Highway system
SR 23 SR 25
SR 224 SR 228

Route description

Levy County

SR 24 in Cedar Key.

Starting as D Street in Cedar Key, State Road 24 skips over Jackson Island and Sunset Island before making its way across the mainland of northwestern Florida. Once on the mainland, the road runs between the Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuge and Waccasassa Bay Preserve State Park just before a fork in the road with Levy County Road 347. Along the way intersects CR 345 in Rosewood. In the City of Otter Creek, the road intersects US 19-98, at a blinker light, which hardly looks like a city at all.

Between US 19-98 and Alternate US 27 in Bronson, the road runs through a wooded area north of Goethe State Forest.

Names for State Road 24 in Levy County include D-Street, 2nd Avenue, West Thrasher Drive, East Thrasher Drive and SR 24.

Alachua County

Shortly after crossing the Levy-Alachua County Line, SR 24 becomes Archer Road and enters Archer itself, intersecting with US 27-41. After the interchange with Interstate 75 in Gainesville, State Road 24 crosses SR 121, where it runs along the south side of the University of Florida then become concurrent with US 441, later with SR 20/26(West University Avenue), until the intersection with SR 331(Southeast Williston Road), where it breaks off onto Northeast Waldo Road, which are also overlapped with US Truck Route 441 and State Truck Route 121 until the intersection with SR 222. The Northeast corner of SR 24 and SR 222 is the site of the Gainesville Regional Airport, while the rest of the road runs through the University of Florida Austin Carey Forest before finally terminating at an interchange with US 301 in Waldo.

Names for State Road 24 in Alachua County include SR 24, Southwest Archer Road, Southwest 13th Street, West University Avenue, Northeast Waldo Road, Kennard Street (Westbound lanes in Waldo), and Waldo Road (Eastbound lanes in Waldo).

Major intersections

CountyLocationmi[1]kmDestinationsNotes
LevyCedar Key0.0000.0002nd Street
3.2485.227
CR 347 north Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge, Shell Mound
Rosewood9.40115.129
CR 345 north Chiefland, Perry
Ellzey19.75231.788
CR 336 west
Otter Creek21.61834.791 US 19 / US 98 (SR 55) Chiefland, Inglis, St. Petersburg
Bronson32.40452.149
CR 24 east (Picnic Street)
32.93252.999
US 27 Alt. (SR 500) Chiefland, Williston
33.16953.380 CR 337 (Court Street) Newberry
33.51453.936
CR 32B north (Marshburn Drive)
34.63855.744
CR 32 west
AlachuaArcher42.63768.618 US 27 / US 41 (SR 45) Newberry, Williston
Gainesville52.3984.31 I-75 (SR 93) Lake City, Tampa, truck route to SR 24 east / SR 26 eastI-75 exit 384
53.46786.047 SR 121 (Southwest 34th Street) Museum of Natural History, Museum of Art
54.70888.044

SR 226 east / SR 24A east (Southwest 16th Avenue)
eastbound exit and westbound entrance
55.73489.695
US 441 south (Southwest 13th Street / SR 25)
west end of US 441 / SR 25 overlap
56.43390.820


US 441 north (Southwest 13th Street / SR 25) / SR 26 west (West University Avenue) to I-75
east end of US 441 / SR 25 overlap; west end of SR 26 overlap
57.29592.207
SR 20 west / SR 329 (Main Street)
west end of SR 20 overlap
58.10093.503

SR 20 east / SR 26 east (East University Avenue) Morningside Nature Center



SR 331 south / SR 24A west (Southeast 11th Street) to I-75 – truck route to SR 24 west / SR 26 west
east end of SR 20 / SR 26 overlap
59.84296.306
SR 120 west (Northeast 23rd Avenue)
60.74097.752
SR 222 (Northeast 39th Avenue) to I-75 Santa Fe College, SFC Police Academy, Airport Passenger Terminal, truck route to SR 121 north / US 441 north
62.138100.001

CR 225 north / CR 232 west (Northeast 53rd Avenue) Gainesville Raceway
Fairbanks64.064103.101
CR 225A west (Northeast 56th Terrace)
Waldo71.014114.286


CR 1475 north (Cole Street) to US 301 south
71.527115.112 US 301 (SR 200) Starke, Baldwininterchange
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

State Road 24A

State Road 24A marker

State Road 24A

LocationGainesville
Length3.997 mi[1] (6.433 km)

State Road 226 marker

State Road 226

LocationGainesville
Length2.201 mi[1] (3.542 km)

State Road 24A (SR 24A) is an alternate route within Gainesville. It is overlapped by State Road 226 (Southwest 16th Avenue and Southeast 16th Avenue), and then State Road 331 from SR 226 to SR 20/26, where it terminates at SR 24 again.

The west end of SRs 24A/226 is only accessible eastbound from SR 24 and westbound to SR 24. Motorists who want to travel in the opposite direction must use nearby Shealy Drive. At US 441 the road transforms from a four-lane divided highway to a four-lane undivided highway with a continuous left-turn lane. The divider returns again east of Southwest 10th Avenue, but ends east of Southwest 6th Street. SR 24A-226 runs along Southwest 16th Avenue, and becomes Southeast 16th Avenue, when it crosses SR 329 and narrows down to two lanes.

The road curves down to a southbound direction and has frequent pedestrian crosswalks across it before curving back east. SR 226 ends at SR 331, however SR 24A continues north along SR 331 until it reaches the intersection of SR 20-24-26.

The entire route is in Gainesville, Alachua County.

mi[1]kmDestinationsNotes
0.0000.000

SR 24 west (Archer Road) / SR 226 begins
Western end of SR 226 overlap
0.9241.487 US 441 (Southwest 13th Street / Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Highway / SR 25)
1.6512.657 CR 329 (South Main Street)Former SR 329
2.2013.542

SR 331 south (Southeast Williston Road) / SR 226 ends
Eastern end of SR 226; western end of SR 331 overlap
3.9976.433
SR 20 / SR 24 west / SR 26 (East University Avenue) Matheson Historical Center, Morningside Nature Center




SR 331 ends (SE 11th Street) / SR 24 east (Waldo Road) to US 441 / SR 121 Airport
Eastern end of SR 331 overlap
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

County Road 24

County Road 24 marker

County Road 24

LocationBronson
Length0.76 mi[2] (1,220 m)

County Road 24 is a short county road spur of SR 24 in Bronson. It travels 0.76 miles (1.22 km) west of SR 24 to U.S. Highway 27 Alternate and is known locally as Picnic Street.

State Road 24 Truck

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State Road 24 Truck marker

State Road 24 Truck

LocationGainesville

Florida State Truck Route 24 in Gainesville, Florida was established in order to divert trucks form the congested downtown areas of Gainesville.[3] The route begins at the Interstate 75 at Exit 384, and follows that route south, having also joined Truck Route 26 which ran southbound along I-75 since Exit 387. Both routes follow the interstate until leaving at Exit 382 to make an easterly turn onto a new overlap with State Road 121. One block after the interstate, the two truck routes encounter the southern terminus of Florida State Road 331, and SR 121 makes a sharp left turn, while Truck Routes 24 and 26 join SR 331 in an overlap are joined by Florida State Truck Route 121. At the intersection with U.S. Route 441, the routes are joined by a truck route of that route as well. The four truck routes run northeast along SR 331 past the eastern terminus of Florida State Road 226, and are also joined by another overlap, this time with Florida State Road 24A. This makes a total of five overlapping routes with SR 331, which curves from northeast to the north. Florida State Truck Route 24/SR 24A/Truck Route 26/SR 331 terminates at the east end of the overlap of SRs 20, 24, and 26. However US 441 Truck and Florida Truck Route 121 continue to the northeast along SR 24 until reaching their respected parent routes.

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