Florida State Road 884

Florida State Road 884

State Road 884, along with Lee County Road 884, together create Lee County, Florida's primary east–west controlled-access highway, linking Cape Coral in the western portion of the county to Lehigh Acres and Alva in the eastern portion. Currently, the highway consists of State Road 884, and two segments of Lee County Road 884 on each end, and the entire highway is about 38 miles (61 km) long. The highway runs through the southern incorporated limits of the city of Fort Myers and through downtown Cape Coral, spanning approximately 20 miles (32 km). Its placement has resulted in its becoming a major commuter route.

When the Midpoint Memorial Bridge opened in 1997, the highway received the first of several planned upgrades. The Midpoint bridge connects Fort Myers to Cape Coral, over the Caloosahatchee River. In Cape Coral, the road is Veterans Parkway, a limited-access highway with an interchange at Del Prado Boulevard (County Road 867A). After crossing the Caloosahatchee River into Fort Myers the highway, where it is known as Colonial Boulevard, is a controlled-access structure with an interchange at Cleveland Avenue (Tamiami Trail-U.S. Highway 41), where it becomes State Road 884. Continuing east, the route interchanges with Interstate 75 west of Lehigh Acres and becomes known as Lee Boulevard.

Until the mid 1980s, SR 884 continued eastward past I-75 into Lee Boulevard, to Lehigh Acres before turning north on Joel Boulevard. The historic eastern terminus of SR 884 is an intersection with Palm Beach Boulevard (State Road 80) near Alva. This portion is now part of the eastern segment of County Road 884.

In the mid 1970s, Florida Department of Transportation designated the segment of then-SR 884 east of Immokalee Road (State Road 82) as a secondary state road, starting a process that transformed the eastern part of SR S-884 into County Road 884. This was part of a set of FDOT road redesignations that transformed the map of southern Florida.