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The U.S. state of Florida, due to being a peninsula and its proximity to the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean, has many bridges of varying lengths. The longest bridge in the state is the Seven Mile Bridge located in the Florida Keys. This list includes overwater automobile bridges 2,640 feet (800 m) or longer.
Name Image Built Listed Location County Type Blackburn Point Bridge: 1925 March 29, 2001 Osprey: Sarasota: Warren pony truss: Bridge of Lions: 1926 November 19, 1982
The Anna Maria Island Bridge is a double-leaf bascule bridge that crosses the Sarasota Bay, connecting the barrier islands of Holmes Beach to the mainland of Palma Sola, Florida. It was built in 1957 along with the Palma Sola Causeway. [8] The bridge extended SR 64 to Anna Maria Island.
The Sunshine Skyway Bridge, carrying I-275/US 19 across Tampa Bay. The road begins at an interchange with US 41 in Manatee County and remains independent until the interchange with I-275 at exit 5, where it overlaps I-275 across the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, the terminus of which is at the intersection of I-275 and SR 682 at exit 17.
In 2008, Brevard County commissioned a $400,000 study to create an overpass for the causeway over the Florida East Coast Railway line, located just west of US 1. [16] In July 2018, FDOT began a $24 million construction project to build a bridge over the Florida East Coast Railway, at a height of 25 ft (7.6 m), as well as to add a traffic signal ...
The first segment of SR 56, which stretched from SR 54 to Bruce B. Downs Boulevard (), opened on March 28, 2002, after three years of construction.The highway allows a more-direct access to I-75 two miles (3.2 km) north of the northern terminus of I-275, as opposed to SR 54, which parallelled I-75 for about three miles (4.8 km) before meeting at its interchange.
The John's Pass Bridge is a twin-span double-leaf bascule bridge that crosses the John's Pass, connecting Madeira Beach and Treasure Island, Florida. The bascule bridge carries Gulf of Mexico Boulevard, part of SR 699. The southbound span of the Johns Pass Bridge was built in 2008, and the northbound span was built in 2010. [4] [5]
Further north it runs along a bridge that crosses the Ocklawaha River and 3 miles (4.8 km) north of that bridge, the road climbs an embankment for a higher bridge over the Cross Florida Barge Canal. Upon descending the top of this bridge the road intersects CR 310 which secretly joins SR 19 as it turns northeast, leaving Ocala National Forest.