Apopka-Vineland Road

Apopka-Vineland Road
Apopka-Vineland Road
County Road 435
Southern section
Length	11.2 mi (18.0 km)
South end	SR 535 / CR 535 in Vineland
North end	CR 526 near Gotha
Northern section
Length	16.9 mi (27.2 km)
South end	SR 50 near Pine Hills
Major intersections	US 441 in Apopka
North end	CR 435 near Mount Plymouth
Location
Country	United States
State	Florida
County	Orange
Highway system
	County roads in Florida ; County roads in Orange County ;

Last updated July 16, 2024

Apopka-Vineland Road is the name of several roads in Orange County, Florida, roughly forming a line from Apopka south to Vineland. As of now, there is one gap, from Old Winter Garden Road to State Road 50 (Colonial Drive), which contains a residential neighborhood and State Road 408, the tolled East-West Expressway.

Route description

The whole southern section from Vineland to Old Winter Garden Road is four lanes wide (the last section, from Florida's Turnpike to Old Winter Garden Road, was completed in 2005). The north section from State Road 50 to A.D. Mims Road in Clarcona is newly constructed four lanes, but from there to Apopka the road remains two lanes. North of McCormick Road the name changes to Clarcona Road. This section connects to the Apopka Expressway State Road 414 via Keene Road.

In the city of Apopka, the name changes again to Park Avenue.

History

Before 1926, there was no road named Apopka-Vineland Road. The only part of the south half to exist was the diagonal section from Old Winter Garden Road south to Gotha Road, part of the old dirt road from Orlando to Gotha. The north section (north of SR 438) was all there, but was known as Clarcona Road, as it passed through Clarcona.

On February 9, 1926, the Orange County Board of County Commissioners approved a $7 million bond issue to build a system of paved roads, supplementing the limited network already existing; the voters approved it 993 to 143 on March 23, 1926. Included in this system was road #24, "Apopka-Vineland to County Line". This road was planned to use what is now Apopka-Vineland Road and State Road 535 (Apopka-Vineland Road) from the existing brick road on Park Avenue in Apopka south to the Osceola County line. It would have used short sections of SR 438 and Old Winter Garden Road, connecting between the two using Good Homes Road (which was at the time a dirt road, and is now paved). Thus the original planned Apopka-Vineland Road all exists, but is not all called that.

Not all the roads in the bond issue were built; this included the center section of Apopka-Vineland Road. Over the years, plans were made to fill the gap; the most recent continued straight from Old Winter Garden Road across SR 50, north across SR 438 about ¼ mile east of the existing road, and curving back to join the road north of SR 438. This has been built between SR 50 and SR 438, and is being built north of SR 438, but housing subdivisions were built in the way south of SR 50.

Short realignments have also been built. Of note are the bypass around Vineland (the old road is Lake Street and Ruby Lake Road), the realignment at Keene Road south of Apopka (moving it back to the old location next to the Florida Central Railroad, now the West Orange Trail), the realignment just south of Old Winter Garden Road, and the realignment just north of Florida's Turnpike, crossing an arm of Lake Steer. As a result of these last two realignments, most of the old road towards Gotha is no longer used by through traffic.

The road named Old Clarcona Road, south of downtown Apopka, was never the paved through road; it served through traffic before the 1926 bond issue.

The part north of SR 438 was taken over by the state at some point, as SR 435, and is now a county road again, CR 435. SR 435 continued east on SR 438 and south on Hiawassee Road, jogging east on SR 50 to reach Kirkman Road, which is still SR 435. SR 435 also continued north into Lake County to end at SR 46 in Mount Plymouth; this is also CR 435.

A while ago, CR 435 signs were installed at the south end, where it meets CR 535 (former SR 535); this section was never SR 435 but may have been state-maintained (along with Good Homes Road). Orange County has stated that the road is not CR 435, but has not removed the signs, and in fact new county-installed green signs at the intersection still mention the number.

Major intersections

The entire route is in Orange County.

Location	mi^[1]^[2]	km	Destinations	Notes
Vineland	0.0	0.0	SR 535 south (to I-4) / CR 535 north / Palm Parkway – Lake Buena Vista, Kissimmee, Winter Garden	Apopka Vineland Road continues south; termini of SR 535 and CR 535
	11.2	18.0	Old Winter Garden Road (CR 526) to SR 408
Gap in route
	0.0	0.0	SR 50 (Colonial Drive) to SR 408
	1.8	2.9	SR 438 (Silver Star Road)	CR 435 designation resumes
South Apopka	6.4	10.3	Keene Road to SR 414 east
Apopka	8.3	13.4	Michael Gladden Boulevard (CR 437A south) to SR 429 south	Northern terminus of CR 437A
Apopka	8.7	14.0	US 441 (Main Street)
	16.6	26.7	SR 429 (Wekiva Parkway)	Former northern terminus of SR 429
	16.9	27.2	CR 435 north	Continuation into Lake County
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Closed/former Route transition

Related Research Articles

Orange County is a county located in the central part of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census, the county had a population of 1,429,908, making it the fifth-most populous county in Florida and the 28th-most populous county in the United States. Its county seat is Orlando, which, along with it being the county's largest city, is the core of the Orlando metropolitan area, which had a population of 2.67 million in 2020.

Winter Garden is a city in western Orange County, Florida, United States. Located 14 miles (23 km) west of Downtown Orlando, it is part of the Orlando metropolitan area. The population was 46,964 as of the 2020 census.

The Central Florida Expressway Authority (CFX) is a highway authority responsible for construction, maintenance and operation of toll roads in five counties of Greater Orlando. It was created in 2014 to replace the Orlando–Orange County Expressway Authority (OOCEA), which only had authority in Orange County, and as of 2016 no roads outside that county have been added to the system. Other toll roads in the area are operated by Florida's Turnpike Enterprise and the Osceola County Expressway Authority; with the latter of which possibly merging into CFX some time after 2018.

The Florida Midland Railway Company was incorporated under the general incorporation laws of Florida, and surveyed a line from Lake Jessup, in Orange County, to Leesburg, in Lake County.

Vineland is an unincorporated community in southwest Orange County, Florida, United States, located just north of Interstate 4 along State Road 535 and continues along County Road 435, which is South Apopka Vineland Road. The name is no longer often used since the more well-known City of Lake Buena Vista lies just to the south and west. Orange County officially calls the area Buena Vista North or Orange Center, its original name. Mailing addresses for residents in the area are typically Orlando, Florida except many businesses in the area use Lake Buena Vista as their address. The area is most famous due to the name appearing on many major Orange County roads, including Apopka-Vineland Road, Winter Garden-Vineland Road, Kissimmee-Vineland Road and Taft-Vineland Road. There was also a small town which was abandoned in the 1960s called Vineland. An ACL Railway Depot, Housing, a schoolhouse, a church, the Vineland Cemetery, and many more community facilities were a part of the original town. These roads begin/terminate in the area known as Vineland and Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

State Road 434 is a major roadway in the Central Florida area. Starting at SR 424 just north of Orlando city limits, the road runs north as Forest City Road through Forest City before dropping the name at the Seminole County line. SR 434 continues north and east through Altamonte Springs and Longwood before turning south and east through Winter Springs and Oviedo. SR 434 is called Central Avenue when it first turns south towards downtown Oviedo. After going through downtown Oviedo, SR 434 is called Alafaya Trail from its intersection with Mitchell Hammock Road south to the Orange County line to its end at SR 50. The road continues south as Alafaya Trail only without the state road designation. Alafaya meets with State Road 50 in Union Park, FL.

State Road 50 runs across the center of the U.S. state of Florida through Orlando, with its termini at SR 55 at Weeki Wachee and SR 5 in Titusville.

U.S. Route 192 is an east–west route of the United States Numbered Highway system in central Florida. It runs 75.04 miles (120.77 km) from U.S. Route 27 in Four Corners, Lake County, east past Walt Disney World and through Kissimmee, St. Cloud and Melbourne, to end at State Road A1A in Indialantic, one block from the Atlantic Ocean. It crosses its "parent", U.S. Route 92, in Kissimmee, for only 3,700 feet (1,100 m).

State Road 429 (SR 429), also known as the Daniel Webster Western Beltway or Western Expressway south of US 441, and the Wekiva Parkway north of US 441, is a controlled-access toll road built and maintained by the Central Florida Expressway Authority (CFX), the Florida's Turnpike Enterprise, and the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT). Its mainline extends 51.77 miles (83.32 km) from I-4 (SR 400) in Four Corners north to I-4 in Sanford. Control cities are Apopka and Tampa although the control cities for traffic at the entrances at US 441 and north are Orlando, Tampa, and Daytona Beach. SR 429 was originally planned as a western half of SR 417.

The West Orange Trail is a 22-mile (35 km) long multi-use rail trail owned by Orange County Parks and Recreation in Orange County, Florida, in the United States. The paved trail passes through downtown Oakland, Winter Garden, and Apopka with most of its length built on old railroad alignments. To the west of the West Orange Trail is the South Lake-Lake Minneola Scenic Trail in Lake County which was connected to the trail in 2007.

State Road 44 is an east–west state highway in the U.S. state of Florida. It runs from Crystal River on the Gulf of Mexico east to New Smyrna Beach on the Atlantic Ocean, passing through Inverness, Wildwood, Leesburg and DeLand.

State Road 414 (SR 414) is an expressway in the U.S. state of Florida encompassing the John Land Apopka Expressway and Maitland Boulevard.

State Road 535 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Florida. The road begins at U.S. Route 192 (US 192) in Kissimmee, heading north, ending at Interstate 4 (I-4) at Lake Buena Vista. Continuing north the road becomes County Road 535. The road is known as Vineland Road in Osceola County and Apopka-Vineland Road in Orange County.

State Road 537 was a short 1-mile (1.6 km) Florida State Road in Orange County, located entirely in Winter Garden and locally named Dillard Street. It was a commuter route of SR 535; the other commuter routes in Winter Garden are Colonial Drive and SR 438. The southern terminus was SR 50, and the northern terminus was SR 438. South of SR 50, it became Daniels Road. Beyond its northern terminus, it became a residential street that extends to the shore of Lake Apopka.

State Road 438 is an east–west state highway in Orange County, Florida. Its western terminus is an interchange with State Road 429 in Ocoee and it runs east to Rio Grande Avenue in Orlando. The road formerly extended further west to CR 455 near Montverde and further east to U.S. Route 17 (US 17) and US 92 in Orlando, for a historic total mileage of 22.00 miles (35.41 km). The current route is truncated to 10.144 miles (16.325 km).

State Road 426 is a major road in Orange and Seminole counties, entirely north of Orlando. Its length is closely similar to SR 438. East of here, the road continues as County Road 426 as a direct route to Mims and Scottsmoor, the census-designated places of Brevard County, terminating at SR 46.

U.S. Highway 17 (US 17) in Florida is a north–south United States Numbered Highway that runs 317 miles (510 km) from the Punta Gorda, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area northeast to the Jacksonville metropolitan area.

U.S. Route 441 (US 441) in Florida is a north–south United States Highway. It runs 433 miles (697 km) from Miami in South Florida northwest to the Georgia state line, with the overall route continuing to Tennessee in the Rocky Top area.

Killarney is an unincorporated community in Orange County, Florida, United States. Its ZIP code is 34740. The community is located west of Oakland, south of Lake Apopka, north of John's Lake, and east of the Lake-Orange County Line.

Orange County Parks and Recreation is the county park department in Orange County, Florida, United States. It maintains and operates a number of parks, multiuse trails, and community recreation centers.

References

Various records at the Orange County Public Works Building, including 1930 plans for paved roads

1 2 Google (June 15, 2019). "Apopka-Vineland Road" (Map). Google Maps . Google. Retrieved June 15, 2019.
1 2 Google (June 15, 2019). "Apopka-Vineland Road" (Map). Google Maps . Google. Retrieved June 15, 2019.

28°33′52″N81°29′32″W / 28.5644809°N 81.4920999°W / 28.5644809; -81.4920999

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[googlemaps-south-1] 1 2 Google (June 15, 2019). "Apopka-Vineland Road" (Map). Google Maps . Google. Retrieved June 15, 2019.

[googlemaps-north-2] 1 2 Google (June 15, 2019). "Apopka-Vineland Road" (Map). Google Maps . Google. Retrieved June 15, 2019.

[1]

[2]