Florida State Road 3
State Road 3, also known as North Courtenay Parkway, is a north–south road serving as the southern access for the Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral, Florida. The shortest of the one-digit Florida State Roads, its southern terminus is an intersection with SR 520 on Merritt Island, east of Cocoa. In 2010, it carried 31,000 vehicles daily north of the Beachline, 36,000 a day south.
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