Florida State Road 46 - Route Description

Route Description

Florida State Road 46 begins as Sanford Road at an unnumbered diamond interchange with US 441, where it changes from a Lake County Road to a Florida State Road. After the intersection with Round Lake Road, SR 46 turns northeast and runs parallel to an abandoned railroad line, which it then curves away from, but then encounters at a former grade crossing in Sorrento just west of the intersection with Lake County Road 437, which shares a brief concurrency with SR 46 for several blocks. East of Sorrento, the road becomes Sorrento Avenue, a name it maintains as it passes by Lake County Road 435 in Mount Plymouth, and then Seminole State Forest. Before entering the forest however, SR 46 passes by Mount Plymouth Lake to the south and encounters the same right-of-way for the abandoned railroad to the north, which runs parallel to the road as even after it leaves the forest on a bridge over the Wekiva River at the Lake-Brevard County line becoming North Henderson Lane, and ruuning along the south end of Lower Wekiva River Preserve State Park. After the intersections with Orange Avenue and Wayside Drive, SR 46 becomes a four lane divided highway before reaching the interchange with Interstate 4, and eventually enters the City of Sanford where it is renamed West First Street. Here, the road runs north of the Sanford Auto Train Station, and former passenger station. Central Florida Commuter Rail system has plans to revive passenger rail service to Sanford with a SunRail station along SR 46, northwest of the former and current Amtrak stations. The divider ends west of Avocado Avenue, but begins again before it shares a brief concurrency with southbound U.S. Route 17/92. During this triple-concurrency, US 17-92-SR 46 intersects a pair of railroad crossings at a junction of two freight lines, and then another one at the intersection of West 13th Street, also the western terminus of Seminole County Road 415. SR 46 then branches off to the east again at Paola Road(Seminole County Road 46A) and 25th Street. SR 46 runs along the northern border of the Orlando Sanford International Airport, then after the southern terminus of Florida State Road 415, uses a bridge over Lake Jesup at the Saint Johns River then become Geneva Avenue as it heads southeast. East of Geneva, the road crosses the St. Johns River itself using the Mims Bridge south of Lake Harney, and entering Volusia County. The journey through Volusia is short-lived though, because the road quickly enters Brevard County and turns straight east at Southmere, where it becomes Carpenter Road. SR 46 finally enters Mims in the vicinity of Interstate 95 at Exit 223, and then ends at US 1.