Florida State Road 786

Florida State Road 786

Locally known as PGA Boulevard, State Road 786 is an 8.7-mile-long highway which is almost completely within the city limits of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. It is signed east-west.

The western terminus is an intersection with Bee Line Highway (SR 710) near North Palm Beach County General Aviation Airport; the eastern terminus is an intersection with Federal Highway (US 1-SR 5) and SR A1A in unincorporated Palm Beach County just east of Palm Beach Gardens and north of North Palm Beach. East of US 1, PGA Boulevard becomes Ocean Boulevard and SR A1A, which continue along a barrier island of the Atlantic Ocean and pass through John D. MacArthur Beach State Park.

In the 1970s and most of the 1980s, SR 786 served as the temporary northern terminus of Interstate 95 (SR 9) in southeastern Florida (for part of the time, a stretch of Florida's Turnpike (SR 91) from SR 786 to SR 70 in Fort Pierce doubled as I-95). The 60-mile-long "gap" in the Interstate highway from Palm Beach Gardens to Vero Beach was finally "filled" with the opening of the Jupiter-to-Stuart segment in 1987.

Since then, the importance of PGA Boulevard has been increasing, not decreasing, due to the rapid population growth in northeastern Palm Beach County since 1980. State Road 786 has become an important commercial and commuter route. West of the Turnpike are two major golf courses (including the PGA National Golf Resort and Spa, which lends PGA Boulevard its name); roughly one mile to the east of the Turnpike is The Gardens Mall, a regional shopping center.

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