Florida State Road 884

State Road 884
Route information
Maintained by FDOT
Length:	4.6 mi[citation needed] (7.4 km)
Major junctions
West end:	US 41/SR 45/Lee CR 884 in Fort Myers
	SR 739 in Fort Myers CR 865 near Fort Myers
East end:	I-75/SR 93/Lee CR 884 near Fort Myers
Highway system
Florida State and County Roads Interstate • US • SR (Pre-1945) • Toll • County ← SR 882 SR 886 →

State Road 884, along with Lee County Road 884, together create Lee County, Florida's primary east–west controlled-access highway, linking Cape Coral in the western portion of the county to Lehigh Acres and Alva in the eastern portion. Currently, the highway consists of State Road 884, and two segments of Lee County Road 884 on each end, and the entire highway is about 38 miles (61 km) long. The highway runs through the southern incorporated limits of the city of Fort Myers and through downtown Cape Coral, spanning approximately 20 miles (32 km). Its placement has resulted in its becoming a major commuter route.

When the Midpoint Memorial Bridge opened in 1997, the highway received the first of several planned upgrades. The Midpoint bridge connects Fort Myers to Cape Coral, over the Caloosahatchee River. In Cape Coral, the road is Veterans Parkway, a limited-access highway with an interchange at Del Prado Boulevard (County Road 867A). After crossing the Caloosahatchee River into Fort Myers the highway, where it is known as Colonial Boulevard, is a controlled-access structure with an interchange at Cleveland Avenue (Tamiami Trail-U.S. Highway 41), where it becomes State Road 884. Continuing east, the route interchanges with Interstate 75 west of Lehigh Acres and becomes known as Lee Boulevard.

Until the mid 1980s, SR 884 continued eastward past I-75 into Lee Boulevard, to Lehigh Acres before turning north on Joel Boulevard. The historic eastern terminus of SR 884 is an intersection with Palm Beach Boulevard (State Road 80) near Alva. This portion is now part of the eastern segment of County Road 884.

In the mid 1970s, Florida Department of Transportation designated the segment of then-SR 884 east of Immokalee Road (State Road 82) as a secondary state road, starting a process that transformed the eastern part of SR S-884 into County Road 884. This was part of a set of FDOT road redesignations that transformed the map of southern Florida.

County Road 884
Western segment
Length:	12.4 mi (20.0 km)
West end:	SR 78/Lee CR 765 near Cape Coral
Major junctions:	CR 867A in Cape Coral SR 867 in Fort Myers CR 869 in Fort Myers
East end:	US 41/SR 45/SR 884 in Fort Myers
Eastern segment
Length:	20.5 mi (33.0 km)
West end:	I-75/SR 93/SR 884 near Fort Myers
Major junctions:	SR 82 near Lehigh Acres
East end:	SR 80 near Alva
Highway system
Florida State and County Roads Interstate • US • SR (Pre-1945) • Toll • County (Lee)

Future upgrades

Ultimately, the entire stretch of SR 884 and CR 884 will be upgraded to freeway standards with the addition of several interchanges and the elimination of several at-grade entrances and crossings, as part of the Bi-County Transportation Corridor. Burnt Store Road (CR 765) will also be widened as part of the same project. [1]

Major roads intersected

• Chiquita Blvd., Cape Coral - at-grade crossing
• Skyline Blvd., Cape Coral - at-grade crossing
• Santa Barbara Blvd., Cape Coral - at-grade crossing
• Country Club Blvd., Cape Coral - at-grade crossing
• Del Prado Blvd., Cape Coral (CR 867A) - interchange
• McGregor Blvd., Fort Myers (SR 867) - interchange
• Summerlin Rd., South Fort Myers (CR 869) - at-grade crossing
• Cleveland Ave., Fort Myers (US 41/Tamiami Trail) - interchange
• Metro Parkway, Fort Myers (SR 739) - at-grade crossing
• Interstate 75 - interchange

See also

• Midpoint Memorial Bridge