Indiantown Road
Indiantown Road is a 17-mile (27 km) east–west road connecting inner Palm Beach County, with Florida's Turnpike, Interstate 95, and U.S. Route 1 in Jupiter, Florida. The road was formerly entirely designated as State Road 706 (SR 706), but majority of it has been transferred to local jurisdiction and is signed as County Road 706 (CR 706).
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| State Road 706 and County Road 706 | ||||
CR 706 in blue, SR 706 in red | ||||
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| Maintained by FDOT and Palm Beach E&PW | ||||
| Length | 17.378 mi[1][2][3] (27.967 km) 4.778 miles (7.689 km) as SR 706 12.6 miles (20.28 km) as CR 706 | |||
| Existed | 1945 renumbering–present | |||
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| West end |  SR 710 near Indiantown | |||
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| East end |  SR A1A in Jupiter | |||
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| Counties | Palm Beach | |||
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Route description
West of Jupiter
Indiantown Road begins at an intersection with the Bee-Line Highway (SR 710) in the middle of the wetlands in northwest Palm Beach County, approximately 10 miles (16 km) east of Indiantown. It proceeds east with the CR 706 designation as a two-lane road with a speed limit of 55 miles per hour (89 km/h) with wetlands on either side. 4 miles (6.4 km) east, Indiantown Road comes to an intersection with Pratt Whitney Road, which itself is County Road 711 and formerly SR 711. As the road enters more civilization, it widens to become a divided boulevard with two lanes in each direction. It is not until an intersection with the Florida's Turnpike ramps that the road becomes three lanes in each direction and the speed limit decreases.[2]
Jupiter
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 Intracoastal Waterway, and then intersects with US 1. Indiantown Road continues east under county maintenance (as CR 706) to County Road A1A, though this section of Indiantown Road is erroneously signed as "to SR A1A."[3][4]
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. 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 Palm Beach County.
| Location | mi[1][2][3] | km | Destinations | Notes | |
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| | 0.00 | 0.00 | SR 710 | Western terminus of CR 706 | |
| | 4.00 | 6.44 |  CR 711 (Pratt Whitney Road) | Former SR 711 | |
| Jupiter | 12.10 0.000 | 19.47 0.000 |  Florida's Turnpike | Route transition from CR 706 to SR 706; exit 116 on Turnpike | |
| 0.490 | 0.789 |  I-95 – Daytona Beach, West Palm Beach | Exit 87 on I-95 | ||
| 3.472 | 5.588 |  CR 809 south (Military Trail) | Northern terminus of CR 809; former SR 809 | ||
| 3.983 | 6.410 |  SR 811 (Alternate A1A) | Former routing of Dixie Highway and SR A1A | ||
| 4.440– 4.694 | 7.145– 7.554 | Indiantown Road Bridge over Lake Worth Creek | |||
| 4.778 0.00 | 7.689 0.00 |  US 1 | Route transitions from SR 706 to CR 706 | ||
| 0.50 | 0.80 |  CR A1A | Former routing of SR A1A | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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References
- Transportation and Data Analytics Office (March 12, 2015). "Straight Line Diagram of Road Inventory". Florida Department of Transportation. Retrieved January 6, 2020.
- Google (January 1, 2018). "County Road 706" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
- Google (January 1, 2018). "County Road 706" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
- Map of State Road 706 (Map). MapQuest, Inc. 2009. Retrieved 2011-06-12.