Route Description
See also: Florida State Road 959 and Florida State Road 823The southern terminus is at South 136th Street (Howard Drive) in Gables by the Sea, with the incorporated village of Pinecrest to the northwest corner and the city of Coral Gables to the east and south.
From this point north it goes a short distance before it ends at Campamento Avenue in Coral Gables. It continues where Old Cutler Road curves near Campamento Avenue and shares its name with Old Cutler Road for a short distance until Old Cutler Road veers east.
It continues north, skirting the east side of Pinecrest as West 57th Avenue, roughly dividing it from Coral Gables until it crosses Kendall Drive (South 88th Street/SR 94) where it divides the city of South Miami to the west from a plot of unincorporated Miami-Dade County to the east.
North of Sunset Drive (South 72nd Street/SR 986) it divides the city of South Miami from Coral Gables until it crosses South 64th Street, where it continues to divide Coral Gables to the east with either South Miami or unincorporated patches of Miami-Dade County to the west.
North of crossing US 1 (South Dixie Highway), Red Road is signed as SR 959. It ends at the Miami International Airport runways at North 12th Street (also known as Perimeter Road) just north of the Dolphin Expressway (SR 836), where State Road 959 also ends.
It continues on the north side of Miami International Airport at North 36th Street and runs through the city of Miami Springs as Curtiss Parkway, their main north-south road, until it ends at Hunting Lodge Drive where Curtiss Parkway curves northeast.
It continues on the northside of the Miami Canal at Okeechobee Road (US 27) and runs through the city of Hialeah as their West 4th Avenue and signed as SR 823. It exits Hialeah when it crosses West 84th Street (Hialeah grid) or North 135th Street (Miami-Dade County grid) and again becomes Northwest 57th Avenue.
It continues north dividing the incorporated town of Miami Lakes to the west from Opa-locka Airport and the city of Miami Gardens to the east until it crosses the Palmetto Expressway (SR 826) where it continues to run north through unincorporated Miami-Dade County.
North of North 202nd Street (Honey Hill Drive) it divides Broward County and the city of Miramar to the west with unincorporated Miami-Dade County to the east, until it fully enters Broward County and Miramar just south of the Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike (State Road 821).
It continues north into Broward County and Miramar for a short distance until it curves northwest and merges onto Flamingo Road.
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