page_title: U.S. Route 41 in Florida
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: U.S. Route 41 in Florida / History
context_page_description: U.S. Route 41 in the U.S. state of Florida is a north–south United States Highway. It runs 479 miles from Miami in South Florida northwest to the Georgia border north of the Lake City area. Within the state, US 41 is paralleled by Interstate 75 all the way from Miami to Georgia, and I-75 has largely supplanted US 41 as a major highway.
  Like all AASHTO designated highways in Florida, US 41 always carries a FDOT designated hidden state road number:
  State Road 90 from US 1 in Miami to the junction with 5th Avenue/9th Street/Tamiami Trail north in Naples.
  State Road 45 from US 41 in Naples to the junction with US 441 and North Main Street in High Springs, with the following exceptions:
  State Road 45A between the north and south termini of US 41 Business in Sarasota County.
  State Road 684 from the junction with the south end of US 41 Business to 44th Avenue Connection in unincorporated Manatee County.
  State Road 55 from 44th Avenue Connection to the north end of US 41 Business in Palmetto.
  State Road 599 from the junction of the south end of US 41 Business and SR 676 east near Tampa to US 92 in Tampa.
  State Road 600 from US 41 south to Nebraska Avenue in Tampa.
context_section_description: US 41 first entered Florida as far back as 1926, terminating in Naples. Former sections of US 41 include US 441 from High Springs through Gainesville to Ocala, and SR 40 from Ocala to Rainbow Lakes Estates, and US 301 from Sarasota to Bradenton. In 1950, US 41 was extended east to Miami along former U.S. Route 94.
  From 1956 until 1993, US 41 signs in Florida featured white numbering on an orange shield. The "color-coding" of U.S. Routes by the Florida Department of Transportation was stopped when the state could no longer use Federal funds to replace the signs with anything but the standard black-and-white version. Some orange US 41 signs may still remain.
caption: A US 41 shield used in Florida prior to 1993