Florida State Road 24

{{Short description|Highway in Florida, United States}} {{redirect|FL 24|the congressional district|Florida's 24th congressional district}} {{Use American English|date=March 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox road | state = FL | type = SR | route = 24 | maint = FDOT | map = {{maplink|frame=yes|plain=yes|frame-align=center|frame-width=290|type=line|raw={{Wikipedia:Map data/Wikipedia KML/Florida State Road 24}}}} | map_custom = yes | map_notes = SR 24 highlighted in red | length_mi = 71.527 | length_round = 3 | length_ref = <ref name=sld/> | established = 1945 | direction_a = West | terminus_a = First Street in Cedar Key | junction = {{jct|state=FL|US|19|US|98}} in Otter Creek {{jct|state=FL|US-Alt|27}} in Bronson {{jct|state=FL|US|27|US|41}} in Archer {{jct|state=FL|I|75}} in Gainesville {{jct|state=FL|US|441|SR|20|SR|26}} in Gainesville | direction_b = East | terminus_b = {{jct|state=FL|US|301}} in Waldo| | previous_type = Toll | previous_route = 23 | browse_route = 20px25px | next_type = SR | next_route = 25 | counties = Levy, Alachua | browse = {{fl browse|previous_type=SR|previous_route=224 |route=25px |next_type=SR|next_route=228}} }} '''State Road 24''' (SR 24) is an east–west 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.

==Route description==

===Levy County=== [[File:Cedar Key SR 24 01.jpg|left|thumb|250px|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, which includes preserves such as the Devil's Hammock Wildlife Management Area.<ref>[https://ocean.floridamarine.org/HGMSearch/BrochureDetails.aspx?sb=Specific%20Area&srctype=pfs&title=Devil%27s%20Hammock Devils Hammock Wildlife Management Area -- Brochure Details (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission)]</ref>

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 (West 13th Street), later with SR 26 (University Avenue), then SR 20, until the intersection with SR 331 (Southeast 11th Street) in the east part of town. Here, SR 24 breaks off as Waldo Road, which is 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 (North 39th Avenue) 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, Archer Road, 13th Street, University Avenue, Waldo Road, and Kennard Street (westbound lanes in Waldo).

==Major intersections== {{jcttop|state=FL|length_ref=<ref name=sld>[http://www2.dot.state.fl.us/straight-linesonlinegis/ FDOT straight line diagrams] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306153400/http://www2.dot.state.fl.us/straight-linesonlinegis/ |date=March 6, 2014 }}, accessed February 2014</ref>}} {{FLint |county=Levy |cspan=10 |location=Cedar Key |mile=0.000 |road=2nd Street }} {{FLint |location=none |mile=3.248 |road={{jct|state=FL|CR|347|county1=Levy|dir1=north|location1=Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge|location2=Shell Mound}} }} {{FLint |location=Rosewood |mile=9.401 |road={{jct|state=FL|CR|345|county1=Levy|dir1=north|city1=Chiefland|city2=Perry}} }} {{FLint |location=Ellzey |mile=19.752 |road={{jct|state=FL|CR|336|county1=Levy|dir1=west}} }} {{FLint |location=Otter Creek |mile=21.618 |road={{jct|state=FL|US|19|US|98|name2=SR 55|city1=Chiefland|city2=Inglis|city3=St. Petersburg}} }} {{FLint |location=Bronson |lspan=4 |mile=32.404 |road={{jct|state=FL|CR|24|county1=Levy|dir1=east|name1=Picnic Street}} }} {{FLint |mile=32.932 |road={{jct|state=FL|US-Alt|27|name1=SR 500|city1=Chiefland|city2=Williston}} }} {{FLint |mile=33.169 |road={{jct|state=FL|CR|337|county1=Levy|name1=Court Street|city1=Newberry}} }} {{FLint |mile=33.514 |road={{jct|state=FL|CR|32B|county1=Levy|dir1=north|name1=Marshburn Drive}} }} {{FLint |location=none |mile=34.638 |road={{jct|state=FL|CR|32|county1=Levy|dir1=west}} }} {{FLint |county=Alachua |cspan=14 |location=Archer |mile=42.637 |road={{jct|state=FL|US|27|US|41|name2=SR 45|city1=Newberry|city2=Williston}} }} {{FLint |location=Gainesville |lspan=9 |mile=52.39 |road={{jct|state=FL|I|75|name1=SR 93|city1=Lake City|city2=Tampa|location3=truck route to SR 24 east / SR 26 east}} |notes=I-75 exit 384 }} {{FLint |mile=53.467 |road={{jct|state=FL|SR|121|name1=Southwest 34th Street|location1=Museum of Natural History|location2=Museum of Art}} }} {{FLint |type=incomplete |mile=54.708 |road={{jct|state=FL|SR|226|dir1=east|SR|24A|dir2=east|name2=Southwest 16th Avenue}} |notes=eastbound exit and westbound entrance }} {{FLint |type=concur |mile=55.734 |road={{jct|state=FL|US|441|dir1=south|name1=Southwest 13th Street / SR 25}} |notes=west end of US 441 / SR 25 overlap }} {{FLint |type=concur |mile=56.433 |road={{jct|state=FL|US|441|dir1=north|name1=Southwest 13th Street / SR 25|SR|26|dir2=west|name2=West University Avenue|to3=to|I|75}} |notes=east end of US 441 / SR 25 overlap; west end of SR 26 overlap }} {{FLint |type=concur |mile=57.295 |road={{jct|state=FL|SR|20|dir1=west|name1=Main Street}} |notes=west end of SR 20 overlap; Former SR 329 south to SR 331 }} {{FLint |type=concur |mile=58.100 |road={{jct|state=FL|SR|20|dir1=east|SR|26|dir2=east|name2=East University Avenue|location1=Morningside Nature Center}} {{jct|state=FL|SR|331|dir1=south|SR|24A|dir2=west|name2=Southeast 11th Street|to3=to|I|75|location1=truck route to SR 24 west / SR 26 west}} |notes=east end of SR 20 / SR 26 overlap }} {{FLint |mile=59.842 |road={{jct|state=FL|SR|120|dir1=west|name1=Northeast 23rd Avenue}} }} {{FLint |mile=60.740 |road={{jct|state=FL|SR|222|name1=Northeast 39th Avenue|to2=to|I|75|location1=Santa Fe College|location2=SFC Police Academy|extra=airport|location3=Airport Passenger Terminal|location4=truck route to SR 121 north / US 441 north}} }} {{FLint |location=none |mile=62.138 |road={{jct|state=FL|CR|225|county1=Alachua|dir1=north|CR|232|county2=Alachua|dir2=west|name2=Northeast 53rd Avenue|location1=Gainesville Raceway}} }} {{FLint |location=Fairbanks |mile=64.064 |road={{jct|state=FL|CR|225A|county1=Alachua|dir1=west|name1=Northeast 56th Terrace}} }} {{FLint |location=Waldo |lspan=2 |mile=71.014 |road={{jct|state=FL|CR|1475|county1=Alachua|dir1=north|name1=Cole Street|to2=to|US|301|dir2=south}} }} {{FLint |mile=71.527 |road={{jct|state=FL|US|301|name1=SR 200|city1=Starke|city2=Baldwin}} |notes=interchange }} {{jctbtm|keys=concur,incomplete}}

==Related routes==

===State Road 24A=== {{Infobox road small |state=FL |type=SR |route=24A |length_mi=3.997 |length_ref=<ref name="sld" /> |established= |location=Gainesville }} {{Infobox road small |state=FL |type=SR |route=226 |length_mi=2.201 |length_ref=<ref name="sld" /> |established= |location=Gainesville }} '''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.

{{jcttop|state=FL|county=Alachua|location=Gainesville|length_ref=<ref name="sld" />}} {{FLint |mile=0.000 |road={{jct|state=FL|SR|24|nolink1=yes|dir1=west|name1=Archer Road|SR|226|dir2=begins}} |notes=Western end of SR 226 overlap }} {{FLint |mile=0.924 |road={{jct|state=FL|US|441|name1=Southwest 13th Street / Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Highway / SR 25}} }} {{FLint |mile=1.651 |road={{jct|state=FL|CR|329|county1=Alachua|name1=South Main Street}} |notes=Former SR 329 }} {{FLint |type=concur |mile=2.201 |road={{jct|state=FL|SR|331|dir1=south|name1=Southeast Williston Road|SR|226|dir2=ends}} |notes=Eastern end of SR 226; western end of SR 331 overlap }} {{FLint |mile=3.997 |road={{jct|state=FL|SR|20|SR|24|dir2=west|nolink2=yes|SR|26|name3=East University Avenue|location1=Matheson Historical Center|location2=Morningside Nature Center}} {{jct|state=FL|SR|331|name1=SE 11th Street|dir1=ends|SR|24|dir2=east|name2=Waldo Road|nolink2=y|to3=y|US|441|SR|121|extra=airport|location1=Airport}} |notes=Eastern end of SR 331 overlap }} {{jctbtm|keys=concur}}

===County Road 24=== {{Infobox road small |state=FL |type=CR |route=24 |county=Levy |length_mi=0.76 |length_round=2 |length_ref=<ref name="FDOT GIS">{{cite web|url=http://www.dot.state.fl.us/planning/statistics/gis/default.htm |title=FDOT GIS data |access-date=June 25, 2007 |author=Florida Department of Transportation |author-link=Florida Department of Transportation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070623132615/http://www.dot.state.fl.us/planning/statistics/gis/default.htm |archive-date=June 23, 2007 |url-status=dead }}{{failed verification|date=February 2014}}</ref> |formed= |location=Bronson }} County Road 24 is a short county road spur of SR 24 in Bronson. It travels {{convert|0.76|mi|km|2}} west of SR 24 to U.S. Highway 27 Alternate and is known locally as Picnic Street. {{clear}}

===State Road 24 Truck=== {{Infobox road small |state=FL |type=SR-Truck |route=24 |length_mi= |length_ref= |established= |location=Gainesville }} '''Florida State Truck Route 24''' in Gainesville, Florida was established  in order to divert trucks form the congested downtown areas of Gainesville.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=1T5WAAAAIBAJ&dq=Gainesville%2C+Florida+Truck+Routes&pg=PA12&article_id=4193,3791633 FDOT Public Notice (Gainesville Sun; Gainesville Sun -- May 14, 1986)]</ref> 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.

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{Attached KML|display=title,inline}} {{Commons category multi |Florida State Road 24|Florida State Road 24A}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20041025115546/http://web.mit.edu/spui/www/flsr/2x.html Florida Route Log (SRs 24 and 24A)] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20041025102824/http://web.mit.edu/spui/www/flsr/22x.html Florida Route Log (SR 226)]

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