County Road 361

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CR 361 along Keaton Beach Drive spurs south from CR 361 along Beach Drive to the coastal community of Keaton Beach. Hodges Park lies at the south end of Keaton Beach Drive along the Gulf of Mexico. The pier at Hodges Park was destroyed by storm surge from Hurricane Hermine, which made landfall in the Big Bend Region of Florida on September 2, 2016. The Taylor County Commission moved forward with a project to demolish the former pier remnants and construct a new pier and pavilion in April 2017.¹

County Road 361 has five branches within Taylor County in Florida's Big Bend region. The main section is a coastal loop west from SR 51 (Riverside Drive) in Steinhatchee to Keaton Beach, and north from Keaton Beach to Perry. The segment along Beach Road runs 18.32 miles northwest across Big Bend Wildlife Management Area to Keaton Beach Drive. Keaton Beach Drive spurs south to Hodges Park along the Gulf of Mexico. The 17.65 mile northern portion of CR 361 extends from Keaton Beach Drive along the continuation of Beach Road to U.S. 19/98/27 Alternate.

An unsigned branch of County Road 361 spurs 0.34 miles west from CR 361 (Beach Road) at Keaton Beach along Ezell Beach Road.

The Steinhatchee River flows west from Steinhatchee adjacent to CR 361 to Dead Man Bay and the Gulf of America. - 07/22/2022

Within the Perry area, County Road 361B arcs west from CR 359B (Osteen Road) and CR 356 along Woods Creek Road 4.07 miles north to Harrison Blue Road, where CR 361 takes over 2.69 miles east on Harrison Blue and Pisgah Roads to U.S. 221. North of Pisgah Road, CR 361 also follows Shiloh Church Road 0.64 miles west from U.S. 221 to J.J. Blue Road and 1.96 miles east on Roberts Aman Road to Johnson Stripling Road. Johnson Stripling Road continues the route 3.52 miles south to Ash Street. Ash Street is another branch of CR 361, extending 1.83 miles east from U.S. 19/98 to Helen Street.

Dixie County Road 361 spurs 11.31 miles from CR 358 at Jena to Jena Wildlife Management Area and an unpaved cul de sac south of Cow Creek. Unsigned CR 361B provides a cut off from CR 361 northwest 0.97 miles to CR 358 at Jena along SW 820th Street.