page_title: Flagler Street
section_title: Route description
hierarchical_section_title: Flagler Street / Route description
caption_attribution_description: Digital photo taken by Marc Averette. en:Flagler Street in en:downtown Miami 5/14/2008
context_page_description: Flagler Street is a 12.4-mile main east–west road in Miami. Flagler Street is the latitudinal baseline that divides all the streets on the Miami-Dade County grid plan as north or south streets. Flagler Street is named after industrialist Henry Flagler and serves as a major commercial east–west highway through central Miami-Dade County, with a mixture of residential neighborhoods and strip malls, the commercial presence increasing as SR 968 approaches downtown Miami.
  Between SR 973 and West 2nd Avenue, Flagler Street is signed State Road 968.
context_section_description: State Road 968 begins at Galloway Road in Fontainebleau, as it takes the six lane Flagler Street east through a mostly commercial area with residential housing dotting the street as it quickly approaches the Mall of the Americas (formerly Midway Mall) to the north and the interchange with the Palmetto Expressway at the eastern end of the mall.  Seven blocks east of the interchange, the road enters the city of Miami proper after crossing the Tamiami Canal one block west of the intersection with Milam Dairy Road and becomes a four lane road from here until reaching I-95.  At NW 67th Court, the divided highway comes together as a four lane road continuing east, with business lining both sides of the street.  Following Red Road (West 57th Avenue), it reaches Flagler Memorial Park to the north, as the road continues east through more businesses and apartment complexes.  The road then intersects with LeJeune Road (West 42nd Avenue), which provides access to Miami International Airport, with SR 968 continuing east towards central Miami.
  At the northwest corner of the intersection with West 27th Avenue (SR 9) sits the Miami-Dade Auditorium concert hall, as Flagler Street continues east for three more blocks, until at NW 24th Avenue, the road becomes a one way pair, with Flagler Street going westbound, and SW 1st Street going eastbound and both roads featuring commercial businesses and parks.  The road then intersects West 17th Avenue just a few blocks south of Marlins Park, as SR 968 enters Central Miami.  From 12th Avenue West to the Miami River, Flagler Street features one eastbound lane with three westbound lanes, with the intersection with US 441/SR 7 (West 7th Street) just four blocks west of the Miami River drawbridges.  Immediately after, it reaches I-95, with access via nearby streets.  The rest of the road features government and business skyscrapers and metro rapid transit trackage towering over the road.  At SW 2nd Avenue, SR 968 meets its eastern terminus, and Flagler Street (former SR 968) is once again a two-way street, with one lane in each direction.  At Miami Avenue, Flagler Street forms the center of Miami, as Miami Avenue represents the baseline for east and west.  The road becomes East Flagler Street as it continues through central Miami, terminating at Biscayne Boulevard (U.S. Route 1), with Bayfront Park, featuring a scenic view of Biscayne Bay just east of the end of Flagler Street.
  Beyond SR 968's western terminus, West Flagler Street extends west to State Road 985 to end at an intersection with West 118th Avenue in Tamiami, just west of the Homestead Extension.
caption: Flagler Street as it runs through the oldest part of Downtown Miami
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