US 1 South - The Overseas Highway - Key West - Florida Keys - 4K Highway Drive

FULL Route of one of America's greatest highway engineering feats: The Overseas Highway through the Florida Keys. Video begins at the Miami-Dade County line and continues south through the Keys and into Key West. We continue into Key West and follow US 1 to its end in the city.
Filmed: April 2021

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From Wikipedia:
The Overseas Highway is a 113-mile (181.9 km) highway carrying U.S. Route 1 (US 1) through the Florida Keys to Key West. Large parts of it were built on the former right-of-way of the Overseas Railroad, the Key West Extension of the Florida East Coast Railway. Completed in 1912, the Overseas Railroad was heavily damaged and partially destroyed in the 1935 Labor Day hurricane. The Florida East Coast Railway was financially unable to rebuild the destroyed sections, so the roadbed and remaining bridges were sold to the state of Florida for $640,000.

Since the 1950s the Overseas Highway has been refurbished into a main coastal highway between the cities of Miami and Key West, offering travelers an exotic roadway through a tropical savanna environment and access to the largest area of coral reefs on the U.S. mainland. Many exotic animals such as the American Alligator, American Crocodile and Key Deer inhabit the tropical islands of the Florida Keys.

In 2001, the Monroe County Commission, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection's Office of Greenways and Trails, and FDOT entered into a Memorandum of understanding to create the Florida Keys Overseas Heritage Trail (FKOHT). The trail will be a multi-use bicycle and pedestrian facility that will traverse the Florida Keys from Key Largo to Key West. Upon completion, the FKOHT will include an integrated system of educational kiosks, roadside picnic areas, scenic overlooks, fishing piers, water access points, and bicycle and jogging paths. The development of the trail will provide a mechanism for the preservation and use of the historic Flagler Railroad Bridges, 23 of which still exist and are mostly intact. Several alternatives exist for trail alignment, including cutting down the 22-foot-wide (6.7 m), 1940s-era roadway to its original 12-foot (3.7 m) spandrel width, or using the 22-foot-wide (6.7 m) roadway as is, particularly in multi-use areas. In all cases, original bridgework will be repaired or rebuilt, and the breaks created during the 1980s and 1990s fishing pier conversion will be reconnected. Where the original roadway no longer exists, the trail will be temporarily cantilevered on the side of the current US 1 highway bridge, until new 12-foot-wide (3.7 m) trail bridge sections can be built. The new sections will be built to match the historical character of the original bridges.

Time Stamps:
Monroe County: 0:00-7:20
Key Largo: 7:21-24:42
Tavernier: 24:43-27:56
Islamorada: 27:57-57:10
Monroe County: 57:11-1:01:38
Layton: 1:01:38-1:02:58
Monroe County: 1:02:59-1:10:45
Marathon: 1:10:46-1:28:20
Seven Mile Bridge: 1:28:21-1:33:10
Monroe County: 1:33:11-1:41:18
Big Pine Key: 1:41:19-1:47:33
Little Torch Key: 1:47:34-1:49:00
Ramrod Key: 1:49:01-1:51:39
Summerland Key: 1:51:40-1:54:36
Cudjoe Key: 1:54:37-1:58:45
Sugarloaf Key: 1:58:46-2:10:08
Big Coppitt Key: 2:10:09-2:15:47
Stock Island: 2:15:48-2:18:17
Key West: 2:18:18