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Winter Haven is part of the Tampa/St. Pete television market, the 13th largest in the country and part of the local Lakeland/Winter Haven radio market, which is the 94th largest in the country. [43] [44] Since 1911, the Winter Haven News Chief has served the community as the local newspaper. The News Chief also published the Polk County Shopper ...
Winter Haven: 83.706: 134.712: SR 540 east (Cypress Gardens Boulevard) – Legoland: 82.021: 132.000: To Central Avenue West east / SR 542 – Polk State College, Dundee, Downtown Winter Haven: 85.265: 137.221: CR 542 west (Avenue D Northwest) 86.531: 139.258: SR 544 (Avenue T Northwest / Havendale Boulevard) – Auburndale, Lucerne Park, Polk ...
It will act as a beltway around the City of Winter Haven, providing easy freeway access to the Polk Parkway and Interstate 4. The planned CSX freight terminal off of US 27 in Winter Haven was supposed to have created substantial truck traffic, and the proposed road would have helped keep these trucks off of local roads.
In the spring of 1990, the Florida Legislature led by Senate leader and Winter Haven resident Bob Crawford, incorporated the Polk Parkway into the Turnpike Expansion Program, a part of Senate Bill 1316. The Parkway's groundbreaking was on January 25, 1996. The western 7.5 miles (12.1 km) of the Parkway opened to traffic on August 9, 1998.
The county seat, Bartow, is located southeast of Lakeland and southwest of Winter Haven and has over 17,000 residents. The cities of Bartow, Lakeland, and Winter Haven form a roughly equilateral triangle pointed downward with Bartow being the south point, Lakeland the west point, and Winter Haven the east point. [71] [72]
It runs as Winter Lake Road (the name deriving from the cities it connects: Winter Haven and Lakeland), north of Lake Hancock, and by the entrance of Circle B Bar Reserve. The road intersects the Polk Parkway , then continues eastward as Winter Lake Road until it intersects Florida State Road 620 where the name changes to Old 9 Foot Road.
US 98 south (East Van Fleet Drive / SR 700) to US 17 – Winter Haven, Fort Meade: east end of US 98 / SR 700 overlap: 65.100: 104.768: Flamingo Drive - Historic District: former SR 60 Bus. west 68.781: 110.692: CR 655A south (80 Foot Road) 71.030: 114.312: CR 655 north (Rifle Range Road) 71.538: 115.129: CR 655A south (Alturas Road North ...
Lake Hamilton is one of the largest lakes in the Winter Haven area. Parts of its shoreline are surrounded by residential areas. The lake has a mobile home park on its northeast shore. A golf course borders the lake along all the southwest shore and US Highway 27 runs close to the lake along much of its east shore. A swamp borders the lake at ...