County Road 491

County Road 476 (Centralia Road) runs 5.29 miles east from U.S. 19 (Commercial Way) through Royal Highlands to combine with County Road 491 (Citrus Way) north for a short overlap.

02/15/14

Reassurance marker posted after Parsons Road (former County Road 491A) along Citrus Way north.

07/13/07

County Road 491 travels alongside Citrus Wildlife Management Area into Citrus County.

07/13/07

CR 480, a 18.69 mile long route across southern Citrus County, intersects CR 491 just north of Hernando County. Following W Oak Park Boulevard, CR 480 travels west to U.S. 98 near U.S. 19. E Stage Coach Trail leads CR 480 east to U.S. 41 at Floral City.

07/13/07

CR 482 (Cardinal Street) heads east from U.S. 19/98 to CR 491 (Lecanto Highway) ahead of this shield assembly.

07/13/07

Lecanto Highway turns west and plies across a portion of Withlacoochee State Forest.

07/13/07

County Road 491 expands into a five lane arterial ahead of the signalized intersection with Grover Cleveland Boulevard west.

07/13/07

A second signal along CR 491 north operates at the intersection with Educational Path, which serves the Lecanto Educational Complex and Crystal River Quarries.

07/13/07

Continuing north, CR 491 (Lecanto Highway) meets SR 44 (Gulf to Lake Highway). SR 44 constitutes the main arterial route across Citrus County, originating in Crystal River and leading east to Inverness and Leesburg.

07/13/07

Beyond SR 44, County Road 491 transitions back into a two lane rural highway.

07/13/07

Citrus County Road 486 (Norvell Bryant Highway) was upgraded to a four lane divided arterial in its entirety between SR 44 near Crystal River and U.S. 41 at Hernando.

07/13/07

Mustang Boulevard winds west from Lecanto Highway at Beverly Hills to Pine Ridge Boulevard.

07/13/07

Beverly Hills Boulevard angles southeast from Citrus County Road 491 to the Beverly Hills Community Building.

07/13/07

County Road 491 (Lecanto Highway) turns east to the junction with U.S. 41 at Holder. The four-way stop was upgraded to a traffic light by 2011. Signs with Arial font were replaced as well.

07/13/07

U.S. 41 (Florida Avenue) meanders south to Hernando and Inverness and northwest to Dunnellon and Williston. CR 491 continues east to end at SR 200 near Stokes Ferry.

07/13/07

CR 491 (Lecanto Highway) crosses the Hernando County line one quarter mile south of CR 480. CR 491 continues along Citrus Way alongside Withlacoochee State Forest for the ensuing two miles.

12/16/19

CR 491 (Citrus Way) extends 3.11 miles south from the Citrus County line.

12/16/19

Citrus Way shifts a quarter mile east to intersect Parsons Road (former CR 491A). Parsons Road connects CR 491 with parallel Brittle Road to the east.

12/16/19

CR 491 (Citrus Way) resumes along a southward course 1.3 miles to U.S. 98 (Ponce De Leon Boulevard) at Ringgold.

12/16/19

An end shield for the truck route along CR 491 precedes U.S. 98 (Ponce De Leon Boulevard). Construction completed in Spring 2023 replaced the stop sign intersection with a roundabout.

12/16/19

U.S. 98 angles northwest from County Road 491 to the Suncoast Parkway (SR 589) and Sugarmill Woods in Citrus County.

02/09/14

Advancing two miles south from U.S. 98 (Ponce De Leon Boulevard), CR 491 (Citrus Way) converges with CR 476 (Lake Lindsey Road) west of Stafford.

02/09/14

CR 476 east follows a rural course across northern Hernando County to Lake Lindsey, Nobleton and Bushnell in Sumter County.

02/09/14

CR 476 resumes a western heading from CR 491 south along Centralia Road to Royal Highlands and U.S. 19 (Commercial Way). CR 491 remains along Citrus Way south by the Cemex mining site to Fort Dade Avenue (CR 484).

02/09/14

Citrus Way curves by both Fickett Hammock Preserve and Janet Butterfield Brooks Nature Preserve just south of the split with CR 476 west.

02/09/14

Reassurance shield posted south of Bailey Hill Road west to Royal Highlands.

02/09/14

An overpass carries County Road 491 above a Cemex mining road one half mile north of Fort Dade Avenue.

02/09/14

CR 484 (Fort Dade Avenue) loops 12.63 miles north from SR 50 (Cortez Boulevard) through the city of Brooksville.

02/09/14

CR 484 leads east 3.2 miles to U.S. 98 (Ponce De Leon Boulevard) in Brooksville and west 1.4 miles to SR 50 by Wiscon.

02/09/14