page_title: Florida State Road 50
section_title: Lake County and western Orange County
hierarchical_section_title: Florida State Road 50 / Route description / Lake County and western Orange County
caption_attribution_description: English: Eastbound Florida State Road 50 as it approaches the interchange with Florida&#39;s Turnpike in Oakland, Florida.
context_page_description: State Road 50 runs across the center of the U.S. state of Florida through Orlando, with its termini at SR 55 at Weeki Wachee and SR 5 in Titusville.
  SR 50 is signed east–west. Within various counties throughout the state, the highway is signed with various names such as Cortez Boulevard in Hernando County and Colonial Drive in Orange County. The former section includes the concurrency with US 98 between Brooksville and near Ridge Manor. US 98-SR 50 is the only interchange with Interstate 75 in Hernando County.
  Several portions of SR 50 east of SR 436 follow the original Cheney Highway, which was named for John Moses Cheney and was the first road to the coast from Orlando. Full travel from Orlando to Titusville on the Old Cheney Highway, however, is not possible due to the demolition of a bridge over the Econlockhatchee River. At the eastern terminus of SR 50, NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building is visible.
context_section_description: Upon entering Lake County, SR 50 maintains its rural surroundings as it runs through unincorporated communities such as Sloans Ridge, but even after running through Stuckey those characteristics diminish as the road moves further east. Within the City of Mascotte, the name of SR 50 changes to West Myers Boulevard. After the former Orange Belt Railway right-of-way crosses the road, a multiplex with State Road 33 begins at CR 33(Bluff Lake Road), where SR 50 suddenly becomes a four-lane divided highway named East Myers Boulevard. After the intersection with Atlantic Avenue, SR 33-50 also acquires the name Broad Street. These two names are shared until the road enters the city limits of Groveland, and Myers Boulevard terminates. The divider is widened further at a BP gas station in a former fork in the road when SR 50 becomes a pair of one-way streets in Downtown Groveland. Eastbound SR 33-50 becomes Orange Street, while westbound SR 33-50 remains Broad Street. After passing by Lake David the road intersects State Road 19. The two streets that carry two directions of SR 50 merge again at the east end of the multiplex with State Road 33. Broad Street continues to take SR 50 further east as a four-lane divided highway. Roughly two blocks east of CR 565A, the road crosses into the City of Clermont, where it passes two developments before dipping down slightly and to the southeast to run over the Palatlakaha River between Lakes Hiawatha and Palatlakaha, the latter of which has a trailer park on the eastbound line. Motorists can see the Florida Citrus Tower well before the intersection with CR 561(12th Street), where the tower itself can be found on the north side. Three intersections later at West Avenue the road turns directly east again in front of Center Lake to the north side and two blocks north of Lake Winona on the south side. After passing by Crystal Lake to the north SR 50 runs along the north edge of Lake Sunnyside, where it then runs southeast before reaching an unnumbered interchange with US 27.
  As the road crosses the Lake-Orange County Line, it instantly enters the census-designated place of Killarney. Here, SR 50 is officially named "West Colonial Drive." On both sides of the border are connecting roads to Old State Road 50, as well as trailheads for the Lake Minneola Scenic Trail and West Orange Trail. The road's time in Killarney is short-lived though as it enters Oakland where it curves briefly to the northeast to encounter Florida's Turnpike, and the recently rebuilt Exit 272. The road evolves into a total commercial strip in Winter Garden, and serves as the terminus of County Road 545 north of Tildenville. It also intersects such roads as County Road 535 as well as State Road 537. The one and only interchange in Winter Garden is with State Road 429's(Western Expressway's) Exit 23, but immediately after this interchange SR 50 enters Ocoee where it intersects with Exit 267B on Florida's Turnpike, at another connector ramp without a crossing. The next major intersection in Ocoee is State Road 439(Bluford Avenue) in Minorville, which also doubles as the western terminus of State Road 526 and leads to Old Winter Garden Road. Right after the intersection of Blackwood Avenue and the grounds of the Health Central Hospital, the road intersects both Clarke Road and the connecting ramps to and from State Road 408, which is considered Exit 1. Past this, the road heads south of the West Oaks Mall. The final segment in Ocoee runs along more strip malls and cluster developments, then runs along a causeway over Lake Lotta before it enters Orlando proper. The first intersection in Orlando is Good Homes Road, but then SR 50 goes over another causeway over Lake Sherwood. After this, the road intersects the still incomplete County Road 435(Apopka-Vineland Road). Currently CR 435 is detoured at Hiawassee Road. Other major intersections in western Orlando include the northern terminus of State Road 435 (Kirkman Road). Briefly, SR 50 runs through Orlando Chinatown and then resumes the previous commercial strip. Important intersect
caption: SR 50 just before it approaches Florida's Turnpike.
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