West end: Turnpike in Jupiter Length 7.689 km | East end: US 1 in Jupiter | |
Existed: 1945 renumbering – present | ||
Locally known as Indiantown Road, State Road 706 (SR 706) is a 5-mile-long (8.0 km), east–west road connecting Florida's Turnpike, Interstate 95 (I-95), and U.S. Route 1 (US 1) in Jupiter.
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Map of FL-706, Jupiter, FL, USA
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.
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.