Route Description
Le Jeune Road/W 42nd Avenue begins at Sunset Drive and Cartagena Plaza (Cartagena Circle) at the edge of the Coral Gables Waterway in the city of Coral Gables, connecting with Sunset Drive/South 72nd Street, Old Cutler Road, Cocoplum Road and Ingraham Highway. LeJeune Road heads northwest for 1.4 miles (2.3 km) as a heavily-wooded residential Coral Gables street. At US 1, LeJeune Road picks up the State Road 953 designation and becomes a four lane road.
SR 953 heads north, through residential areas, the eastern end of Coral Gables High School and the western end of the Village of Merrick Park mall. SR 953 intersects Bird Road and leaves the campus of Coral Gables High School, entering a pure residential area and remains that way until reaching University Drive. At that point, the east side of the road becomes commercial and the west side is residential until close to the intersection with Coral Way (Florida State Road 972).
At Zamora Avenue, LeJeune Road divides Coral Gables to the west with unincorporated Miami-Dade County to the east, and enters unincorporated Miami-Dade County just one block north at Mendoza Avenue, becoming purely a residential street again. At Southwest 8th Street (US 41/Tamiami Trail), Le Jeune Road enters the city of Miami, and becomes a divided road, with two lanes in each direction.
Le Jeune continues north through Miami, remaining a residential street for six blocks before becoming a commercial road. It continues north through Miami as a commercial street until an interchange with the Dolphin Expressway (SR 836), where the road becomes a divider between the International Links Miami-Melreese golf course to the east and a parking lot to the west. It reenters unincorporated Miami-Dade County after crossing the Tamiami Canal just south of the entrance to Miami International Airport and its interchange with the southern terminus of the Airport Expressway (SR 112). Between SR 953's entrance of the airport and the next major interchange north, Florida State Road 948, it creates the eastern boundary of the airport, with airport related business to the east of LeJeune Road.
Just two blocks north of SR 948, SR 953 crosses canal C-6 and crosses Okeechobee Road, entering Hialeah as their Southeast 8th Avenue and no longer a divided road. It continues north as a residential street, crossing Florida State Road 944, becoming East 8th Avenue, the easternmost major street in Hialeah, with some commercial business at East 9th Street, Florida State Road 934, East 41st Street and Florida State Road 932. North of East 57th Street, it passes by a truck distribution center to the east, and a park to the west. SR 953 then splits off to the Le Jeune/Douglas Road Expressway Connection, providing nearby access to Florida State Road 924, followed by an intersection with East 65th Street at the south end of Amelia Earhart Park, leaving Hialeah and entering Opa-locka where it is again West 42nd Avenue. North of SR 924, Le Jeune Road is a purely commercial road, servicing truck distribution centers as SR 953 heads towards its northern terminus of Florida State Road 916.
North of SR 916, Le Jeune Road continues for 0.6 miles (0.97 km), towards a dead-end inside Opa-locka Airport. North of the airport, Northwest 42nd Avenue continues north to a dead end at North 192nd Street.
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