- Florida State Road 710
Signed east-west, the 61-mile-long State Road 710 is a northwest-southeast route connecting SR 70 near Cypress Quarters three miles from the northern tip of
Lake Okeechobee in south centralFlorida to U.S. Route 1 in Riviera Beach. Most of the route is also known as Bee Line Highway (not to be confused with the former Bee Line Expressway, atoll road serving central Florida between Orlando and Cape Canaveral). The name is apt, for it parallels therailroad tracks maintained bySeaboard Coast Line and used byAmtrak … and doesn’t have a turn or curve in the 48 miles southeast of Sherman, except for a small bend northwest ofNorth Palm Beach County General Aviation Airport . In Riviera Beach, an “eastbound” motorist traveling along SR 710 would turn left to the east and travel along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard (Eighth Street) to Federal Highway (US 1).Bee Line Road traverses the
woodland s andwetland s north and east of Lake Okeechobee, with an occasional farm near its northwestern end. It is a populartruck route that is used as an alternative to US 441/US 98/SR 700. In addition to the cities at its termini and Sherman, Indiantown (near theSt. Lucie Canal and midway along the Bee Line stretch) and West Palm Beach have the street within their city limits.For a year in the 1940s, Bee Line Highway was designated State Road 66 before the number was changed to 710.
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