Florida State Road 908

From the late 1950s to the 1970s, State Road 908 was a 13-mile-long east–west street in southern Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA (formerly Dade County). Locally, it was known as Southwest 232nd Street, Silver Palm Drive, and Bailes Road. Its western terminus was an intersection with Country Club Road (Southwest 202nd Avenue) in the Redlands; its eastern terminus was an intersection with Galloway Road (Southwest 87th Avenue) midway between Cutler Bay and Black Point. All but 1.3 miles (2.1 km) of SR 908 was on Silver Palm Drive—the section just east of South Dixie Highway (U.S. Route 1/SR 5) was bypassed by using US 1 and Bailes Drive in Goulds.

State Road 908
SW 232nd Street
Route information
Length	13.0 mi (20.9 km)
Existed	late 1950s–late 1970s
Major junctions
West end	Country Club Road in Redlands
East end	SR 973 near Cutler Bay
Location
Counties	Miami-Dade
Highway system
Florida State Highway System Interstate U.S. SR Former Pre-1945 Toll Scenic ← SR 907 → SR 909

Route description

With the exception of the segment in Goulds, a suburb of Miami, SR 908 passed through agricultural areas (primarily landscape nurseries, cornfields, tomato farms, and elephant ear fields). One mile south of the eastern terminus of the former SR 908, Black Point has evolved from a popular fishing spot to the site of a major Miami-Dade County marina and a primary access to Biscayne National Park.

History

Silver Palm Drive was built in the early 1900s. It was established as State Road 908 in the late 1950s. Although the road lost its Florida Department of Transportation State Road status in the 1970s, the area along the road itself has not significantly changed since then, in contrast to the rapid urbanization to the south of it in Homestead and Florida City, and to the north of it, in Saga Bay and Lakes by the Bay, both now part of Cutler Bay.