Biscayne Boulevard - Route Description - Miami-Dade County

Miami-Dade County

For the first 14 miles in Miami-Dade County, US 1 is a 2 lane road bordering the Everglades National Park on the west. It is named South Dixie Highway from the county line to Miami. Its first major intersection is with the north end of Card Sound Road south of Florida City. Southbound travelers approaching this intersection see a sign that tells them to take Card Sound Road if the light on it is flashing.

US 1 intersects South 424th Street, and then enters Florida City. Between Florida City and Homestead, it meets the southern end of the Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike and intersects State Road 9336, providing access to either Everglades National Park or Biscayne National Park. It continues due north into Homestead at South 328th Street. The road then curves northeast through Homestead, parallel to Florida's Turnpike, leaving the city north of South 304th Street, continuing northeast through the communities of Leisure City, Modello, Naranja, Princeton, and Goulds.

At West 112th Avenue (Allapattah Road), it enters the incorporated town of Cutler Bay (formerly Cutler Ridge), where it passes under Florida's Turnpike after an intersection with State Road 989, and continues northeast in the town until at South 186th Street, it borders the town for two blocks before leaving at South 184th Street. The road continues northeast from this point. In Perrine, it meets State Road 994. The road passes though Rockdale and Howard until it reaches South 136th Street (Howard Drive), and serves to divide Pinecrest to the southeast and Kendall and Dadeland to the northwest and is known also as Pinecrest Parkway.

North of Snapper Creek (Canal C-2), it continues northeast and enters another section of unincorporated Miami-Dade County before reaching South Miami at South 80th Street. In South Miami, US 1 intersects two expressways, the Palmetto Expressway (State Road 826), and the Snapper Creek Expressway (State Road 878), as well as State Road 959. At Red Road (West 57th Avenue), it leaves South Miami and enters Coral Gables, still headed northeast. At West 38th Avenue (Brooker Street), it leaves Coral Gables and enters Miami, heading northeast towards the southern terminus of Interstate 95 just south of downtown Miami, and US 1 becomes Brickell Avenue.

In Miami, US 1 first intersects State Road 976, followed by the south end of State Road 9, which ends up running concurrent with Interstate 95, and is also I-95's state designation through most of Florida. About a mile east, it meets the national southern terminus of I-95. At this point both roads turn north and run relatively parallel through the state. It then proceeds to meet US 41 to begin a brief concurrency before crossing the Miami River via a bascule bridge into downtown. Brickell Avenue is the main road through the Brickell financial district of Downtown Miami, and is considered a desirable address associated with business and finance. Brickell Avenue is lined mostly with high-rise office buildings. Miami Avenue and Brickell Bay Drive, west and east of Brickell Avenue respectively are lined mostly with Brickell's high-rise residential towers.

The road is then named Biscayne Boulevard through the rest of Miami-Dade County as it proceeds north on Biscayne Bay. As Biscayne Boulevard, US 1 becomes a one-way pair at an intersection with State Road 970. Two blocks north, it reaches State Road 968 (Flagler Street), the north-south baseline for most of Miami-Dade County. US 1 then passes by the western end of Bayfront Park, and then intersects Port Boulevard (NE 6th Street), providing access to the Port of Miami, with the American Airlines Arena at the northeastern end of the intersection. For the next few blocks, it passes by Bicentennial Park, with Interstate 395 at the northern end, which also marks the national southern terminus of US 41. US 1 continues through midtown Miami, intersecting with the national southern terminus of U.S. Route 27 one block south of Interstate 195 next to the Julia Tuttle Causeway. North of I-195, the road continues through Miami as a residential road, intersecting State Road 944, State Road 934, and State Road 915 before leaving Miami. Moving further inland, the Boulevard replaces East Sixth Avenue at 61st Street. It enters suburban Miami Shores at North 87th Street and enters the village of Miami Shores. Crossing the Biscayne Canal, Miami Shores becomes North Miami. In North Miami, it intersects State Road 922, leading to the Broad Causeway and State Road 916. In North Miami Beach, it intersects State Road 826, and State Road 860. The road enters Aventura at Greynolds Park. It continues north-northeast through the city of Aventura, curving due north at North 187th Street and northeast at North 203rd Street. In Aventura, it intersects State Road 856 at the southwest of the Aventura Mall, and after intersecting the former State Road 854, it leaves Miami-Dade County.