State Road 52 West - Dade City to San Antonio

State Road 52 overtakes Clinton Avenue west from CR 52 ALT at U.S. 98/301 in south Dade City.

03/21/23

Unmarked from Clinton Avenue, forthcoming Fort King Road is CR 41 north into Dade City and south to Zephyrhills.

03/21/23

Paralleling U.S. 301 for 8.67 miles to the west, CR 41 extends north onto 17th Street in the Dade City street grid and south to U.S. 301 (Gall Boulevard) beyond CR 54 (Eiland Boulevard).

03/21/23

SR 52 continues west from Fort King Road to the Lake Pasadena Heights community north of Lake Pasadena.

03/21/23

The Dade City bypass extends west from Clinton Avenue at CR 579 (Prospect Road). The four lane arterial opened with one lane per direction on March 24, 2023.

03/21/23

CR 579 (Prospect Road) heads north onto Happy Hill Road from CR 52 just east of St. Leo. CR 579 south passes west of Zephyrhills en route to New Tampa in Hillsborough County.

03/21/23

SR 52 gains 100 feet in elevation to the immediate west from CR 579 (Prospect Road).

03/21/23

SR 52 curves southward between the town of Saint Leo and Karney Lake ahead of CR 577 (Curley Road) south of San Antonio.

03/21/23

CR 577 (Curley Street) runs through the San Antonio city center north to CR 578 at St. Joseph and CR 41 near the Hernando County line.

03/21/23

South from SR 52, CR 577 constitutes a suburban route to Wesley Chapel that rapidly developed from rural areas in the late 2010's and early 2020's.

03/21/23

Confirming marker posted west of CR 577 (Curley Road).

03/21/23

Mirada Boulevard serves the sprawling Mirada development south of SR 52 and commercial areas to the north between SR 52 and CR 52.

03/21/23

The Dade City bypass converges with the former alignment of SR 52 just west of Mirada Boulevard.

03/21/23

CR 52 angles northeast back to San Antonio while SR 52 advances west across Bayou Branch.

03/21/23

State Road 52 expands to six overall lanes west of Corporate Lake Boulevard and ahead of Interstate 75.

03/27/20

Completed in spring 2018, the $73 million widening project along I-75 from north of CR 54 at Wesley Chapel to north of SR 52 redesigned the exchange at SR 52 with a new loop ramp from west to south and expanded ramps elsewhere.¹

03/21/23

Motorists along SR 52 westbound headed to either direction of I-75 travel single file to succeeding entrance ramps.

08/13/18

Ocala is a 66 mile long drive to the north from SR 52 via Interstate 75.

03/27/20

Interstate 75 southbound partitions with I-275 to Tampa and St. Petersburg in 11.4 miles.

03/27/20

Construction to reconfigure SR 52 and Interstate 75 into a parclo interchange started on May 29, 2014.¹ The new loop ramp to southbound I-75 spans SR 52 on a bridge wide enough to accommodate two lanes in the future.

01/18/23

A stand alone shield for I-75 appears along the entrance ramp from SR 52 westbound.

01/18/23

Frontage roads tie into SR 52 to the immediate west of I-75 at Old Tampa Bay Drive.

03/27/20

Traffic lights were added at the intersection with Old Pasco Road south during four lane expansion of SR 52. Old Pasco Road parallels I-75 to the Tampa Bay Golf & Country Club community nearby en route to CR 54 (Wesley Chapel Boulevard).

03/27/20

SR 52 reassurance marker posted west of Old Pasco Road.

03/27/20

Upcoming County Road 581 (Bellamy Brothers Boulevard) stems north from SR 52 to the rural community of Darby.

03/27/20

This branch of County Road 581 travels 16 miles north to U.S. 98/SR 50A in Brooksville.

03/27/20

The four lane section of SR 52 concludes at CR 581 (Bellamy Brothers Boulevard). Future work will expand the ensuing stretch west to U.S. 41.

03/27/20

Bayonet Point, where SR 52 ends at U.S. 19, is the lone destination referenced west of CR 581. No mention of New Port Richey for motorists taking SR 52 west from I-75.

03/27/20