Route Description
With small pockets of exceptions (and also excluding the section between Red Road and LeJeune Road in Coral Gables), Bird Road is primarily commercial, from the various strip malls, to a block of vintage stores, to Bird Bowl, one of the few remaining bowling establishments in Miami-Dade County.
Tropical Park, also along Bird Road, is the former site of a race track that had its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s. It is now a Miami-Dade County park.
In Coral Gables, the median of Bird Road (SR 976) contains spreading banyan trees, most notably near Coral Gables High School near LeJeune. The nearby Coral Way in Miami (SR 972) has similarly decorated street medians that predate this.
Bird Road has several designations beyond that of the state highway. In the neighborhood of the city of Miami known as Coconut Grove, it is named Bird Avenue and is also known as South 30th Street. West of Coral Gables it is also known as South 40th Street, which continues westward past the Turnpike until a gentle chicane, whereupon it becomes South 42nd Street and called either Bird Road or Bird Drive. The section west of the Turnpike is primarily residential, although there are a few strip malls, other small stores, and fast food places. Bird Drive currently ends at West 162nd Avenue, but more homes continue to be built in this area and the road may be extended further west in the future.
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