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|---|---|
| Interstates | Interstate X (I-X) |
| US Highways | U.S. Highway X (US X) |
| State | State Road X (SR X) |
| County: | County Road X (CR X) |
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The following is a list of county roads in Sarasota County, Florida . All county roads are maintained by the county where they reside, although not all routes are marked with standard county road shields.
| Route | Road Name(s) | From | To | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 CR 72 | Stickney Point Road | Midnight Pass Road | US 41 | former SR 72 |
 CR 72A | Proctor Road | US 41 | SR 72 | former SR 72A [1] |
 CR 610 | University Parkway [lower-alpha 1] | US 41 | I-75 at Exit 213 | former SR 610 [3] and SR 778 (west of Desoto Road) [4] |
 CR 683 | North Tuttle Avenue Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Way | SR 780 | US 301 (SR 683) | former spur of SR 683 [4] |
 CR 683A | Airport Circle Rental Car Road Bradenton Road | CR 610 | former SR 683A [5] Unmarked and occupied by Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport | |
 CR 762 | Laurel Road | US 41 | I-75 at Exit 195 | |
 CR 765 | Jacaranda Boulevard | SR 776 | I-75 at Exit 193 | |
 CR 771 | Sumter Boulevard | US 41 | I-75 at Exit 182 | |
 CR 772 | Venice Avenue | US BUS 41 | CR 765 | former SR 770 [6] and SR 772 [4] |
 CR 773 | Beneva Road | US 41 | SR 780 | former SR 773 [4] |
 CR 774 | Manasota Beach Road | Manasota Key Road | SR 776 | former SR 774 [4] |
 CR 775A | West Dearborn Street Old Englewood Road | SR 776 | SR 776 | former SR 775A [4] Part of the Lemon Bay / Myakka Trail Scenic Highway |
 CR 777 | East Dearborn Street South River Road | SR 776 | US 41 | former SR 777 [4] |
 CR 778 | Desoto Road | CR 610 | US 301 | former SR 778 [4] |
 CR 779 | Toledo Blade Boulevard | Charlotte-Sarasota County Line | I-75 at Exit 179 | former SR 39 [7] |
 CR 780 | Fruitville Road Verna Road Hancock Road | I-75 & SR 780 | Sarasota-Manatee County Line | former SR 780 [4] |
 CR 789 | Albee Road West Casey Key Road Blackburn Point Road | US 41 | US 41 | former SR 789 [4] |
| CR 789 | Midnight Pass Road | Midnight Pass Bay | SRs 72 & 758 | former SR 789 [4] |
 CR 789A | Beach Road Ocean Boulevard Higel Avenue | SR 758 | SR 758 | former SR 789A [4] |
Sarasota County is located in southwest Central Florida on the Gulf Coast. At the 2020 US census, the population was 434,006. Its county seat is Sarasota and its largest city is North Port. Sarasota County is part of the North Port–Sarasota–Bradenton, FL metropolitan statistical area.
Interstate 4 (I-4) is an Interstate Highway located entirely within the U.S. state of Florida, maintained by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT). Spanning 132.298 miles (212.913 km) along a generally southwest–northeast axis, I-4 is entirely concurrent with State Road 400 (SR 400). In the west, I-4 begins at an interchange with I-275 in Tampa. I-4 intersects with several major expressways as it traverses Central Florida, including U.S. Route 41 (US 41) in Tampa; US 301 near Riverview; I-75 near Brandon; US 98 in Lakeland; US 192 in Celebration; Florida's Turnpike in Orlando; and US 17 and US 92 in multiple junctions. In the east, I-4 ends at an interchange with I-95 in Daytona Beach, while SR 400 continues for roughly another 4 mi (6.4 km) and ends at an intersection with US 1 on the city line of Daytona Beach and South Daytona.
Florida's Turnpike, designated as unsigned State Road 91, is a toll road in the U.S. state of Florida, maintained by Florida's Turnpike Enterprise (FTE). Spanning approximately 309 miles (497 km) along a northwest–southeast axis, the turnpike is in two sections. The SR 91 mainline runs roughly 265 miles (426 km), from its southern terminus at an interchange with Interstate 95 (I-95) in Miami Gardens to an interchange with I-75 in Wildwood at its northern terminus. The Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike continues from the southern end of the mainline for another 48 miles (77 km) to US Highway 1 in Florida City. The slogan for the road is "The Less Stressway". The mainline opened in stages between 1957 and 1964, while the extension was completed in 1974. The turnpike runs through Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach, where it parallels I-95, and through Orlando, where it crosses I-4.
Interstate 595 (I-595), also known as the Port Everglades Expressway and as the unsigned State Road 862 (SR 862), is a 12.860-mile (20.696 km) Interstate highway that connects Interstate 75 and Alligator Alley in the west with Florida's Turnpike, Interstate 95, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, US 1, and SR A1A before terminating at Port Everglades in the east. The interstate route was conceived in 1969, and planned as an interstate starting in 1974. Construction began in 1984, with the freeway opening in stages in the late 1980s, with completion in 1991. The reversible tolled express lanes opened in 2014.
State Road 579 is a 0.5-mile (0.80 km) stretch of Fletcher Avenue between Florida Avenue and Nebraska Avenue in Tampa, Florida. Similar to SR 678 to the north, it exists to connect U.S. Route 41, Interstate 275, and US 41 Business. Despite its odd-numbered Florida Department of Transportation designation, SR 579 is signed east–west.
State Road 618 (SR 618), also known as the Lee Roy Selmon Expressway, and originally as the Southern Crosstown Expressway, is a 14.168-mile (22.801 km) all-electronic, limited access toll road in Hillsborough County, Florida, It connects the South Tampa neighborhood near MacDill Air Force Base with Downtown Tampa and the bedroom community of Brandon. The expressway was built in stages, opening between 1976 and 1987. An approximately 1.9 mile extension to the thoroughfare's western terminus opened to traffic on Monday, April 19, 2021.
State Road 924 (SR 924) is a 8.5 miles (13.7 km) east–west highway connecting I-75 and SR 826 in Hialeah and SR 909 in North Miami. The westernmost 4.85 miles, named the Gratigny Parkway, is a limited access all-electronic toll road maintained by the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority ; the easternmost 3.6 miles (5.8 km) is a surface street also known as Gratigny Road. Despite its relatively short length, SR 924 is a major east–west artery in northern Miami-Dade County.
The Dolphin East-West Expressway is a 15-mile-long (24 km), six-lane, divided controlled-access highway, with the westernmost 14 miles (23 km) as an all electronic tollway signed as State Road 836, and the easternmost 1.292 miles (2.079 km) between Interstate 95 (I-95) and SR A1A cosigned as Interstate 395 (I-395). The road currently extends from just north of the intersection of Southwest 137th Avenue and U.S. Highway 41 (US 41) in Tamiami, eastward past the Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike and Miami International Airport, before intersecting I-95, becoming I-395 and ending at SR A1A in Miami at the west end of the MacArthur Causeway. The Dolphin Expressway is maintained and operated by the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority (MDX), while the I-395 section is maintained by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT). The Dolphin Expressway from the Palmetto Expressway to I-95 opened in 1969, with the I-395 section opening in 1971, the extension to the HEFT opening in 1974 and a second western extension opening in 2007.
State Road 777 is an 5.8-mile-long (9.3 km) state road near North Port, Florida, United States. SR 777 is locally known as River Road from Interstate 75 (I-75) south to its southern terminus at Tamiami Trail where it continues south as a county road.
State Road 884, along with County Road 884, together create Lee County, Florida's primary east–west partially controlled access highway, linking Cape Coral in the western portion of the county to Lehigh Acres and Alva in the eastern portion. Currently, the highway consists of State Road 884, and two segments of County Road 884 on each end, and the entire highway is about 37.5 miles (60.4 km) long. The highway runs through the southern incorporated limits of the city of Fort Myers and through the mid part of Cape Coral, and has become a major commuter route.
State Road 865 and County Road 865 are a series of roads serving Lee County, Florida. Originally a continuous state road extending from Bonita Springs to Tice by way of Fort Myers Beach and Fort Myers, SR 865 now consists of two segments connected by a part of CR 865, which also extends to the north and south of the state segments. Both the state and county controlled segments of the route combined stretch a distance of over 40 miles (64.37 km), making it the longest designation in Lee County.
State Road 48 (SR 48) was an east–west state highway that ran from U.S. Highway 41 in Floral City, Florida, to Florida State Road 19 in Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida. In the last years of the route's existence, it was a 2.167 miles (3.487 km) state road in Bushnell, Florida, which ran from Interstate 75 (I-75) at exit 314 to U.S. Highway 301 (US 301). Today, all segments are designated County Road 48 (CR 48) where they are under county maintenance. Segments in Sumter County are part of the Scenic Sumter Heritage Byway.
Interstate 75 (I-75) is a part of the Interstate Highway System and runs from the Hialeah–Miami Lakes border, a few miles northwest of Miami, to Sault Ste. Marie in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I-75 begins its national northward journey near Miami, running along the western parts of the Miami metropolitan area before traveling westward across Alligator Alley, resuming its northward direction in Naples, running along Florida's Gulf Coast, and passing the cities of Fort Myers, Punta Gorda, Venice, and Sarasota. The freeway passes through the Tampa Bay area before turning inward toward Ocala, Gainesville, and Lake City before leaving the state and entering Georgia. I-75 runs for 471 miles (758 km) in Florida, making it the longest Interstate in the state and also the longest in any state east of the Mississippi River. The Interstate's speed limit is 70 mph (110 km/h) for its entire length in Florida.
U.S. Highway 41 (US 41) in the state of Florida is a north–south United States Highway. It runs 479 miles (771 km) from Miami in South Florida northwest to the Georgia state line north of the Lake City area. Within the state, US 41 is paralleled by Interstate 75 (I-75) all the way from Miami to Georgia, and I-75 has largely supplanted US 41 as a major highway.
U.S. Route 301 in Florida runs from the Sarasota-Bradenton-Venice, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area northeast to the Greater Jacksonville Metropolitan Area. The road is a spur of U.S. Route 1, which it intersects in Callahan.
Daniels Parkway, originally known as State Road 876 (SR 876), runs from Tamiami Trail in Fort Myers to SR 82 in Lehigh Acres. Daniels Parkway encompasses a major section of what is now County Road 876, a major east-west thoroughfare through Lee County just south of Fort Myers city limits before becoming a north-south route through Lehigh Acres and Buckingham, also encompassing Cypress Lake Drive, Gunnery Road, and Buckingham Road.