Florida State Road 706

State Road 706 marker

State Road 706
Indiantown Road
Route information
Maintained by FDOT
Length: 4.778 mi[1] (7.689 km)
Existed: 1945 renumbering – present
Major junctions
West end: Turnpike in Jupiter
East end: US 1 in Jupiter
Highway system
SR 704SR 708

Locally known as Indiantown Road, State Road 706 (SR 706) is a 5-mile-long (8.0 km), eastwest road connecting Florida's Turnpike, Interstate 95 (I-95), and U.S. Route 1 (US 1) in Jupiter.

Route description

State Road 706 begins at the interchange between Florida's Turnpike and Indiantown Road in Jupiter, with SR 706 heading east, with the interchange with Interstate 95 one-quarter mile (0.40 km) from the Turnpike. East of I-95, Indiantown Road becomes a commercial road from here to the eastern terminus. It has intersections with Central Boulevard and Center Street, major roads in the town of Jupiter, along with county road Alternate A1A. Continuing east, it has a junction with Military Trail, followed by SR 811 in central Jupiter. The road then crosses a major drawbridge over the Intracostal waterway, and then intersects with US 1. Indiantown Road continues east under county maintenance to County Road A1A.[2]

History

Originally, SR 706 spanned 17 miles (27 km) from Bee Line Highway (SR 710) near Indiantown to its present eastern terminus. In the mid-1970s, Florida Department of Transportation downgraded the section west of the Turnpike to secondary status (and placed "S" stickers on the SR 706 signs), starting a sequence of events that started the reversion of the western segment to county control (to County Road 706). This was part of a large set of transformations that particularly affected Florida south of State Road 70.

While SR 706 was primarily a rural road as recently as the 1980s, the region has become urbanized in recent years as the population growth of Florida Gold Coast and nearby Treasure Coast has been transforming the Atlantic coast of Florida south of Kennedy Space Center.

Major intersections

The entire route is in Jupiter, Palm Beach County.

mi[1]kmDestinationsNotes
0.0000.000 Turnpike (SR 91) Orlando, MiamiTurnpike exit 116; west end of state maintenance
0.490.79 I-95 (SR 9) Daytona Beach, West Palm BeachExit 87 (I-95)
3.4725.588 CR 809 south (Military Trail) to SR 809
3.9836.410 SR 811 (Alternate A1A)
4.440–
4.694
7.145–
7.554
Indiantown Road Bridge over Lake Worth Creek (Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway)
4.7787.689 US 1 (SR 5) to CR A1A / Indiantown Road
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

  1. 1 2 FDOT straight line diagrams, accessed March 2014
  2. Map of State Road 706 (Map). MapQuest, Inc. 2009. Retrieved 2011-06-12.
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