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U.S. Highway 192
US 192 is a U.S. Highway in central Florida.
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Current route
US 192 runs for 75.04 miles (120.77 km) from U.S. Highway 27 (SR 25 ) west of the Walt Disney World Resort to SR A1A one block from the Atlantic Ocean in Indialantic, via Kissimmee. The entire road is in Florida. It is signed east-west.
US 192 uses the following unsigned state roads:
- SR 530 from its west end to Kissimmee
- SR 600 from John Young Parkway to Main Street in Kissimmee
- SR 500 from Kissimmee to Indialantic
US 192 is a major tourist strip in the area around the Walt Disney World Resort, including "mile markers" (with a variable distance between each) to help tourists locate businesses. In the late 1990s, the Osceola Parkway was built as a bypass for it around Kissimmee.
Intersections with other U.S. and Interstate Highways
- US 27 west of the Walt Disney World Resort
- I-4 at the Walt Disney World Resort
- US 17/US 92 (John Young Parkway) in Kissimmee begin US 17/US 92 concurrency
- US 17/US 92/US 441 (Main Street) in Kissimmee end US 17/US 92 concurrency; begin US 441 concurrency
- US 441 at Holopaw end US 441 concurrency
- I-95 west of Melbourne
- US 1 in Melbourne
- east end of US 192 in Indialantic
History
US 192 was in the original 1926 plan as a spur from US 92 in Kissimmee to US 1 in Melbourne; previously it had been the Dixie Highway Central Florida Connector. It followed SR 24 until the 1945 Florida State Road renumbering, after which it used SR 500 .
US 192 was extended east along SR 516 (now part of SR 500 ) across the Intracoastal Waterway to SR A1A in the late 1960s. It was extended west along SR 530 to the new U.S. Highway 27 to serve the newly-opened Walt Disney World Resort in 1972.
US 192 was realigned in the mid-1930s between Deer Park and St. Cloud in Osceola County. The western end of this alignment exists as Old Melbourne Highway. Old Melbourne Highway's eastern terminus is next to Mercury's former Lake X landing strip. The rest of the alignment is on private property owned mostly by Deseret Ranch . The old road eventually crosses the current road, and intersects a southern extension of CR 419 approximately 1/2 mile (800 m) south of the current alignment of US 192 in Deer Park . From there, the old alignment heads straight east back to the current road.
Related U.S. Highways
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