Florida State Road 951
State Road 951 | ||||
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| Collier Boulevard | ||||
 SR 951 in red, CR 951 in blue | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by FDOT | ||||
| Length | 7.710 mi[1] (12.408 km) | |||
| Existed | 1945–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end | Marco Island | |||
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| North end |  I-75 near Golden Gate | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Florida | |||
| Counties | Collier | |||
| Highway system | ||||
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State Road 951 (SR 951), locally known as Collier Boulevard, is a 7-mile-long (11 km) north–south divided highway that extends from the south end of the Judge S.S. Jolley Bridge in Marco Island to Tamiami Trail (U.S. Route 41 (US 41)/SR 90) near Naples Manor, along with a short 1⁄2 mile (0.80 km) piece between SR 84 and Interstate 75 (I-75). The highway once extended over 24 miles (39 km) long, traveling between Marco Island and SR 846 near Golden Gate. Portions of the former state highway are now part of County Road 951 (CR 951).
Route description[edit]
State Road 951 begins at the south end of the S.S. Jolley Bridge in Marco Island, crossing Big Marco Pass, passing through marshland and woodland as it leaves Marco Island and heads towards the mainland, crossing an intersection with CR 952 (Capri Boulevard). The next intersection, Mainsail Drive, provides access to Marco Island Airport. Further north on the mainland, the road passes by some newer housing and country club developments as it intersects with Tamiami Trail, the northern terminus of the southern segment.
The road resumes near Golden Gate at SR 84's eastern terminus on Florida's Gulf Coast, and has an interchange with I-75 at the west end of Alligator Alley, with the northern end of the interchange being the northern terminus.
A numbering anomaly within the Florida Department of Transportation’s numbering system of State Roads, SR 951 is the only SR 9xx highway that is not in Miami-Dade County: Krome Avenue (SR 997) lies 78 miles (126 km) to the east; the similarly numbered SR 953 (LeJeune Road) is another 12.5 miles (20.1 km) to the east of SR 997.
History[edit]
The first segment of Collier Boulevard (known then as Isles of Capri Road) south of U.S. Route 41 (Tamiami Trail) was built around 1955 during the development of the Isles of Capri. The Isles of Capri Road would be designated SR 951. This segment was built upon the abandoned rail bed of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad's Marco Island branch (which existed from 1927 to 1944) and would replace an earlier road to the area that was built around 1912. The original road, known as Old Marco Road, ran just to the west of SR 951 and historically provided access to a ferry service to Marco Island, which launched from present-day Isles of Capri. The ferry service was discontinued in 1938 when the original Goodland Bridge was built further east and the road's importance diminished. Present-day Capri Boulevard (CR 952) east to its connection with the Old Marco Road at Antigua street, was also built at this time and was designated as the southern end of SR 951. A small section of Old Marco Road is still in service at the north end and is now Barefoot Williams Road.[2]
The northern section of Collier Boulevard from present-day SR 84 to Immokalee Road (CR 846) was built by 1960. It was built as part of a northern extension of SR 858 (present-day Radio Road).[3][4] By 1963, SR 951 was extended north from US 41 to connect with SR 858.[5][6] At this point, SR 951 became a discontinuous route at SR 858, with SR 951 resuming at SR 858 further east heading north along present-day Airport-Pulling Road, Golden Gate Parkway, and Goodlette-Frank Road.[7]
The road was extended south from Isles of Capri to Marco Island in 1969 when the Marco River Bridge (known today as the S.S. Jolley Bridge) was built.[8] The route south across the bridge was designated SR 951B when it opened.
Many state roads in Collier County were re-designated on January 5, 1976.[9] SR 951 was then designated as a secondary state road from Marco Island (at State Road 92) northward along the former SR 858 to an intersection with the then-State Road 846 (now County Road 846). The discontinuous segment of SR 951 received different designations. The state road designation of the northernmost 14 miles (23 km) of SR 951 were phased out in the 1980s as they were relinquished to county control.
The southern section of the road was still known as Isles of Capri Road until 2000, when the full road from Marco Island to Immokalee Road was officially named Collier Boulevard.[10][11]
State Road 951 formerly extended 2.6 miles (4.2 km) to the south, terminating at County Road 92 (San Marco Road) in Marco Island. This section was turned over to the city of Marco Island on November 29, 2004.
Major intersections[edit]
The entire route is in Collier County.
| Location | mi[1][12] | km | Destinations | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marco Island | 0.000 | 0.000 | San Marco Road (CR 92 east) - Goodland | ||
| 1.5[13] | 2.4 | Bald Eagle Drive (CR 953) | |||
| 2.606 | 4.194 | foot of Jolley Bridge | south end of state maintenance | ||
| | 2.76 | 4.44 | Judge S.S. Jolley Bridge over Big Marco Pass | ||
| | 4.135 | 6.655 |   CR 952 west (Capri Boulevard) – Isles of Capri | ||
| | 9.678 | 15.575 |  US 41 (SR 90) | north end of state maintenance | |
| | 13.2[13] | 21.2 |  CR 864 west (Rattlesnake Hammock Road) | ||
| | 16.205 | 26.079 |   SR 84 west (Davis Boulevard) – Naples | south end of state maintenance | |
| | 16.59 | 26.70 | I-75 (SR 93) – Tampa, Miami | I-75 exit 101 | |
| | 16.843 | 27.106 | north end of state maintenance | ||
| Golden Gate | 18.3[13] | 29.5 |  CR 886 west (Golden Gate Parkway) | ||
| | 20.3[13] | 32.7 |   CR 896 west (Pine Ridge Road) to I-75 | ||
| | 22.4[13] | 36.0 | Vanderbilt Beach Road (CR 862) | ||
| | 24.351 | 39.189 |    CR 846 (Immokalee Road) to I-75 / US 41 north – Naples Park, Immokalee | ||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||
References[edit]
- ^ a b FDOT straight line diagrams Archived March 6, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 2014
- ^ Woodward, Craig (2 April 2020). "North of Isles of Capri – Part Two". Coastal Breeze News. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
- ^ State Road Department of Florida (1959). Official State Road Map of Florida (PDF) (Map). Scale not given. Tallahassee: State Road Department of Florida. Retrieved May 22, 2024.
- ^ State Road Department of Florida (1960). Official State Road Map of Florida (PDF) (Map). Scale not given. Tallahassee: State Road Department of Florida. Retrieved May 22, 2024.
- ^ State Road Department of Florida (1962). Official State Road Map of Florida (PDF) (Map). Scale not given. Tallahassee: State Road Department of Florida. Retrieved May 22, 2024.
- ^ State Road Department of Florida (1963). Official State Road Map of Florida (PDF) (Map). Scale not given. Tallahassee: State Road Department of Florida. Retrieved May 22, 2024.
- ^ General Highway Map, Collier County, April 1966, reprinted January 1973/July 1975: sheet 1, sheet 2
- ^ Shook, Scott H. (28 December 2023). "The Bridges of Marco Island". Coastal Breeze News. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
- ^ "New Road Numbers Set". The Naples Daily News. December 24, 1975. p. 8. Retrieved June 3, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "It's County Road 951, once again". Naples Daily News. 25 March 1993. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
- ^ Epstein, Victor (12 January 2000). "4 roads unified to extend Collier Boulevard". Naples Daily News. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
- ^ FDOT GIS data Archived 2008-12-11 at the Wayback Machine, accessed January 2014
- ^ a b c d e Google Maps distance
