Route Description
Sunset Drive begins at eastern terminus at Cartagena Plaza connecting with Old Cutler Road, Cocoplum Road, LeJeune Road and Ingraham Highway. It continues 1.8 miles (2.9 km) west, crossing South Miami at Red Road, entering Coral Gables again at the eastern end of State Road 986.
The SR 986 section of Sunset Drive is mostly a residential street, with a few businesses and strip malls lining the street at major intersections. The road begins at West 127th Avenue, with Sunset Drive heading east towards the Florida's Turnpike Homestead Extension, without an interchange, and then intersecting with West 117th Avenue 150 yards east of the HEFT. SR 986 continues east through the residential areas, crossing under the Don Shula Expressway without an interchange before an intersection with SR 973 (Galloway Road). East of Galloway Road, SR 986 passes through exclusive residential areas for the rest of its journey. It then has an interchange with the Palmetto Expressway, and continues east, leaving unincorporated Miami-Dade County and entering the city of South Miami between West 69th Court and West 68th Court. SR 986 passes by the South Miami Hospital just two blocks before it terminates at US 1 (South Dixie Highway), where Sunset Avenue continues as a local road.
From the western terminus of SR 986, the road ends locally at Southwest 167th Avenue in western Miami-Dade County).
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