The Indian River Lagoon Scenic Highway is a 130-mile-long (210 km) scenic byway located in Florida . The highway is a collection of several roads, running north and south along either side of the Indian River Lagoon, connected by other roads running over the Lagoon.
14-518: The two main north–south roads are: The east west connectors are, from north to south: The remainder of the east–west roads connect US 1 to A1A: The north end starts at the eastern terminus of CR 402, Kennedy Parkway inside the Kennedy Space Center . It turns west toward Historic Downtown Titusville . At the other end of CR 402, the road turns southward to U.S. Route 1. 12 miles (19 km) south of Downtown Titusville,
28-782: Is a body of water located on the east coast of Florida in Brevard and Volusia counties. It is part of the Indian River Lagoon system and the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway . It extends from the Ponce de Leon Inlet to a point north of Cape Canaveral , and connects to the Indian River via the Haulover Canal . The Mosquito Lagoon Aquatic Preserve includes 4,740 acres (1,920 ha) in
42-667: Is an intersection with SR 520 on Merritt Island , east of Cocoa . SR 3, also known as North Courtenay Parkway, runs from SR 520 north through Merritt Island and into very rural areas before terminating at the Kennedy Space Center property line. The Florida Department of Transportation annual average daily traffic (AADT) numbers for 2012 show an average of 26,000 vehicles just north of SR 520, increasing to 29,000 just south of SR 528/SR A1A, then decreasing to 25,500 just north of its crossing with those two roads, and further decreasing to 21,500, finally halving to 12,600 as
56-685: The Indian River back to the mainland on the Eau Gallie Causeway (present day SR 518 ) and terminating at U.S. Route 1 ( SR 5 ) in Melbourne . Between then-SR 402 and SR 520, SR 3 was cosigned with SR A1A. The openings of the Emory L. Bennett Causeway and the Pineda Causeway in 1971 triggered a massive transformation of SR 3. The former causeway shifted SR A1A to the north (to the newly extended Bee Line Expressway ) as SR 3
70-590: The former SR 402 (now County Road 402 ) near the shore of Mosquito Lagoon in the (present-day) Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge near Titusville . In the meantime, SR 3 extended along the length of Tropical Trail from US 1 near Oak Hill to the southern tip of Merritt Island, where it crosses the Banana River on the Mathers Bridge (a swing span drawbridge ) before turning south on South Patrick Drive (present day SR 513 ) and crossing
84-610: The lagoon. The Nature Conservancy is coordinating an oyster restoration project, developed by the University of Central Florida . The goal is to restore about 40 acres (160,000 m ) of oyster reef habitat within the Canaveral National Seashore . Winter , the bottlenose dolphin notable for her prosthetic tail (whose story was featured in the film Dolphin Tale and the sequel Dolphin Tale 2 )
98-557: The northern end of the lagoon. The preserve originally extended to the southern end of the lagoon, but close to two-thirds of the preserve in the central and southern lagoon were transferred to the Federal government, and is now part of the Canaveral National Seashore . The cities of New Smyrna Beach and Edgewater , the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge and the Kennedy Space Center adjoin
112-672: The road approaches the turn to the north-east and its northern terminus. Not one inch of the original alignment of SR 3 is in the current route. Until the opening of the Emory L. Bennett Causeway in June ;1956, the route to KSC was signed SR A1A as A1A was routed across the Banana River on the Merritt Island Causeway (SR 520) – and was, in fact, cosigned with SR 520 – and then northward along North Tropical Trail through Kennedy Space Center to an intersection with
126-615: The scenic byway meets CR 515, part of the Indian River Lagoon Scenic Highway. After the southern terminus of CR 515, it passes Pineda , Palm Shores , Melbourne , Palm Bay , Grant-Valkaria , Barefoot Bay , Micco , Roseland , Sebastian , and Wabasso . At SR 510 in Wabasso, the byway turns eastward on the Wabasso Causeway to Orchid to State Road A1A and then north. Several places along
140-610: The transition from State Road 3 to County Road 3 . Courtenay Parkway eventually was extended past SR 520 beyond the Merritt Island Airport to the historic community of Georgiana, where it meets up with the older South Tropical Trail, however this is a county facility and does not carry the state road designation. The last phase was completed in the late 1980s. The entire route is in Merritt Island , Brevard County . Mosquito Lagoon Mosquito Lagoon
154-490: The way are: Windsor , Sebastian Inlet State Park , Melbourne Beach , Indialantic , Melbourne , Indian Harbor Beach , Satellite Beach , Patrick Space Force Base , Cocoa Beach , and Cape Canaveral . State Road 528 begins at Cape Canaveral as the Emory L. Bennett Causeway and heads to the southern terminus of the road. It goes over State Road 3 in Merritt Island , and finally, it ends at U.S. Route 1 in Cocoa (also
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#1732782796224168-426: The west end of the Emory L. Bennett Causeway . Florida State Road 3 State Road 3 ( SR 3 ), known locally as both North Courtenay Parkway and North Kennedy Parkway is a north–south road located entirely on Merritt Island , serving as the southern access for the Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral, Florida . The shortest of the one-digit Florida State Roads , its southern terminus
182-493: Was realigned to cover North Courtenay Parkway and provide the access to the Kennedy Space Center (the segment north of KSC lost its SR 3 and A1A signs); the latter causeway prompted the establishment of South Patrick Drive as the primary southern access to Patrick Space Force Base as SR 513. In 1976, the Florida Department of Transportation added a "C-" prefix to the signs on the stretch south of SR 520 and started
196-677: Was rescued from Mosquito Lagoon in December 2005. In recent years the Mosquito lagoon has experienced several algal blooms , called "brown tides", that have resulted in extensive fish kills . The species of alga thought to be primarily responsible for the blooms, Aureoumbra lagunensis , was first detected in the lagoon in 2005. Blooms causing fish kills have occurred in the lagoon in 2012, 2016, 2018 and 2020. 28°45′03″N 80°45′01″W / 28.75083°N 80.75028°W / 28.75083; -80.75028 This article about
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