State Road 5 is a mostly-unsigned state highway in the state of Florida. It is mainly signed as US 1 from its south end in Key West, Florida to Jacksonville, Florida, and US 17 from Jacksonville to the Georgia state line at the Saint Marys River. US 1 is SR 15 northwest from Jacksonville.
However, from northern Lantana, Florida through Lake Worth, Florida to Belvedere Road in West Palm Beach, Florida, SR 5 is separate from US 1, which runs to the west on the older but wider Dixie Highway. SR 5 uses the parallel Olive Avenue until Belvedere Road, where it turns west one block to rejoin Dixie Highway and US 1. Until around 2004, Olive Avenue carried northbound US 1 (SR 5) north from Belvedere Road. Olive Avenue is now a two-way city street from Belvedere Road north to SR 704 where the one-way pair now begins, and so both directions of SR 5 now go west one block on Belvedere Road to Dixie Highway.
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