Red Road (Miami)

Red Road, locally known as either Red Road and Northwest or Southwest 57th Avenue, is a north-south street that runs west of downtown Miami in Miami-Dade County, Florida and into Broward County.

The southern terminus is at Southwest 136th Street (Howard Drive) in Gables by the Sea, with the incorporated village of Pinecrest to the northwest corner and the city of Coral Gables to the east and south.

From this point north it goes a short distance before it ends at Campamento Avenue in Coral Gables. It continues where Old Cutler Road curves near Campamento Avenue and shares its name with Old Cutler Road for a short distance until Old Cutler Road veers east.

It continues north, skirting the east side of Pinecrest as Southwest 57th Avenue, roughly dividing it from Coral Gables until it crosses Kendall Drive (Southwest 88th Street) where it divides the city of South Miami to the west from a plot of unincorporated Miami-Dade County to the east. [ [http://pinecrest-fl.gov/publications/maps/sectionmap.pdf Village of Pinecrest Map] ]

North of Sunset Drive (Southwest 72nd Street) it divides the city of South Miami from Coral Gables until it crosses Southwest 64th Street, where it continues to divide Coral Gables to the east with either South Miami or unincorporated patches of Miami-Dade County to the west. [ [http://www.cityofsouthmiami.net/sm_map.pdf City of South Miami Map] ]

North of crossing US 1 (South Dixie Highway), Red Road is also State Road 959.

It continues as Southwest 57th Avenue until it crosses West Flagler Street where it becomes Northwest 57th Avenue. It ends at the Miami International Airport runways at Northwest 12th Street (also known as Perimeter Road) just north of State Road 836 (the Dolphin Expressway). State Road 959 also ends here.

It continues on the north side of Miami International Airport at Northwest 36th Street and runs through the city of Miami Springs as Curtiss Parkway, their main north-south road, until it ends at Hunting Lodge Drive where Curtiss Parkway curves northeast.

It continues on the northside of the Miami Canal at Okeechobee Road (US 27) and runs through the city of Hialeah as their West 4th Avenue or State Road 823. It exits Hialeah when it crosses West 84th Street (Hialeah grid) or Northwest 135th Street (Miami-Dade County grid) and again becomes Northwest 57th Avenue.

It continues north dividing the incorporated town of Miami Lakes to the west from Opa-locka Airport and the city of Miami Gardens to the east until it crosses the Palmetto Expressway (State Road 826) where it continues to run north through unincorporated Miami-Dade County.

North of Northwest 202nd Street (Honey Hill Drive) it divides Broward County and the city of Miramar to the west with unincorporated Miami-Dade County to the east, until it fully enters Broward County and Miramar just south of the Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike (State Road 821). [ [http://www.miamigardens-fl.gov/gis/PDF%20MAPS/Corporate%20Boundary.pdf Miami Gardens Corporate Boundaries Map] ]

It continues north into Broward County and Miramar for a short distance until it curves northwest and merges onto Flamingo Road.

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