State Road 54 East - New Port Richey to Land O' Lakes

The first reassurance marker for SR 54 stands just east of U.S. 19. FDOT recorded 29,500 vehicles per day (vpd) along the initial stretch of SR 54 in 2017.

04/25/15

Heading east from U.S. 19, SR 54 constitutes a six lane arterial through the unincorporated community of Elfers. Zephyrhills lies 39 miles away along the eastern segment of the state road.

10/07/15

The first signal along SR 54 eastbound is with Pasco County Road 595 (Grand Boulevard) in Elfers.

11/06/18

County Road 595 lines Grand Boulevard two miles south to Mile Stretch Drive by the Holiday Gardens community and 2.3 miles north to Main Street in Downtown New Port Richey.

10/07/15

SR 54 east at County Road 595 (Grand Boulevard). CR 595 forms an L-shaped route southwest from Elfers to U.S. 19 at Holiday. A separate section of Grand Boulevard, formerly a part of CR 595, parallels the Pithlachascotee River north from New Port Richey to U.S. 19 in Port Richey.

10/07/15

The Suncoast Parkway (SR 589) lies 12 miles east of CR 595 and Elfers along SR 54.

11/06/18

Reassurance marker posted eastbound on SR 54 between CR 595 and Madison Street.

11/06/18

SR 54 progresses east from Elfers to the unincorporated community of Seven Springs.

11/06/18

02/15/22

Madison Street connects SR 54 with the Holiday Gardens Estates neighborhood to the north and the Colonial Hills and La Villa Gardens communities to the south.

11/06/18

10/23/19

A previously undeveloped stretch lined the south side of SR 54 between Madison Street and Crestwood Boulevard. Site clearing was underway by June 2018 for the 216-acre Copperspring development.¹

11/06/18

Sandwiched between Holiday to the south and the city of New Port Richey to the north, Elfers is an unincorporated community centered along SR 54 between U.S. 19 and Thys Road.

10/07/15

County Road 77 and SR 54 come together at a commercialized intersection in Seven Springs.

11/06/18

Ten miles separate CR 77 from the exchange with the Suncoast Parkway along SR 54.

11/06/18

Pasco County Road 77 provides a seamless route south with Pinellas County Road 611 (East Lake Road) toward Safety Harbor and Clearwater. Traveling east of New Port Richey and Port Richey to the north, the 9.83 mile route follows Rowan Road north of SR 54 and Seven Springs Boulevard southward.

11/06/18

SR 54 advances east from CR 77 (Seven Springs Road) through the Seven Springs community.

10/07/15

Old County Road 54 branches east from SR 54 along the pre-1997 alignment of the state road to Little Road (CR 1).

04/25/15

10/07/15

Spanning the Anclote River, SR 54 drops southeast 0.75 miles from Old County Road 54 to Mitchell Park Road.

04/25/15

Heading east again, SR 54 next approaches County Road 1 (Little Road).

10/07/15

County Road 1 (Little Road) is a four lane arterial traveling south to Trinity Boulevard and the Trinity community and north through suburban areas east of New Port Richey, Port Richey and Hudson to U.S. 19.

10/07/15

Reassurance marker for SR 54 east after CR 1 (Little Road) by Mitchell Ranch Plaza shopping center.

10/07/15

Continuing east from Seven Springs, SR 54 reaches the unincorporated community of Odessa in five miles. Zephyrhills is another 27 miles via CR 54 (Wesley Chapel Boulevard) and the east section of SR 54.

10/07/15

Hospital Boulevard spurs south from the ensuing traffic light along SR 54 east to the Medical Center of Trinity.

10/07/15

Starkey Boulevard arcs northward from SR 54 to an array of suburban development including Longleaf, Starkey Ranch and Southern Oaks.

10/07/15

Trending southward, SR 54 advances east to intersect Duck Slough Boulevard. Duck Slough Boulevard provides a cutoff south to Trinity Boulevard west through the Fox Wood development.

10/07/15

Trinity Boulevard converges with SR 54 east, 5.5 miles from Pinellas County Road 611 (East Lake Boulevard) through the Trinity community. Heart Pine Avenue ties into the traffic light between the two roads from Starkey Ranch Village to the north.

10/07/15

The succeeding traffic light connects SR 54 with Community Drive south to adjacent retail and the Trinity Preserve community.

11/06/18

CR 587 (Gunn Highway) stems 1.46 miles south from SR 54 into Hillsborough County from Odessa. Major development at Starkey Ranch Village got underway along the north side of SR 54 here in 2017.

02/15/22

Formerly a rural community, unincorporated Odessa centers around the intersection of SR 54 and CR 587 (Gunn Highway).

02/15/22

Guide signs for Tampa and Citrus Park were removed from both directions of SR 54 at CR 587 (Gunn Highway) by 2018. Gunn Highway is a former Florida secondary highway traveling 16.1 miles south to an interchange joining Dale Mabry Highway with Busch Boulevard (SR 580) at Carrollwood.

04/20/16

CR 587 constitutes a semi-rural highway south through the Lake Fern and Keystone communities to suburban areas of Citrus Park and the Veterans Expressway (SR 589). A local extension of Gunn Highway was constructed north as part of the Starkey Ranch Village development in 2017-18.

02/15/22

Continuing east from CR 587 (Gunn Highway) and Odessa along SR 54.

02/15/22

Black Lake Road loops south from the succeeding stretch of SR 54 along the former two lane alignment of SR 54. Land O' Lakes, a large unincorporated area, spreads east of the Suncoast Parkway. The distance cited here references U.S. 41, four miles north of SR 54.

02/15/22

Traffic lights were activated along SR 54 at Asturian Parkway north and Black Lake Road south in Spring 2021.

02/15/22

Development commenced in earnest for South Branch Preserve, north of SR 54 along South Branch Boulevard, in 2017. Traffic lights were added here by 2021.

02/15/22

Crossings Boulevard spurs south to retail, apartments, town homes and the Ivy Lake Estates subdivision.

02/15/22

A diamond interchange (Exit 19) connects SR 54 with SR 589 (Suncoast Parkway) to the immediate east of Crossings Boulevard.

02/15/22

01/03/22

Running north from the Veterans Expressway at Lutz to U.S. 98 south of Sugarmill Woods, the Suncoast Parkway was constructed between Summer 1998 and August 2011. The 13 mile extension to SR 44 near Crystal River opened to traffic on February 28, 2022.

02/15/22

Commuters taking SR 589 (Suncoast Parkway) south toward Tampa reach SR 60 (Memorial Highway) by Tampa International Airport (TPA) in 17.5 miles.

02/15/22

Brookville, seat of Hernando County, lies 30 miles to the north via SR 589 (Suncoast Parkway) and SR 50 (Cortez Boulevard) east.

02/15/22

The general area of Land O' Lakes spreads west along State Road 54 to the Suncoast Parkway.

02/15/22

Bexley Village Drive north and Northpointe Parkway south come together at SR 54 from additional development along the east side of SR 589 (Suncoast Parkway).

02/15/22

Six lane expansion along SR 54 east from SR 589 to U.S. 41 through Land O' Lakes was completed in April 2016. Traffic lights were added at Meadowbrook Drive during the $16 million project.²

02/15/22

Ballantrae Boulevard stems north from SR 54 to the Ballantrae Village and Bexley Village development. Cypress Ranch Boulevard was added along with adjacent development to the south in 2021.

02/15/22

Reassurance marker posted east of Ballantrae Boulevard. Development got underway along the south side of SR 54 ahead of the Ballantrae Professional Condominium complex in 2021.

02/15/22

Sunlake Boulevard is a four lane suburban road leading north to Sunlake High School and several developments including Concord Station and Bexley. Heading south, Sunlake Boulevard serves Long Lake Ranch and Hillsborough County subdivisions in north Lutz.

02/25/21

SR 54 intersects Oakstead Boulevard north to the Oakstead community at the succeeding traffic light.

02/15/22

Weaving east between the Devonwood and Cambridge Cove subdivisions, SR 54 advances to U.S. 41 and the commercial center of Land O' Lakes.

01/03/22

The intersection between SR 54 and U.S. 41 (Land O' Lakes Boulevard) is generally congested during the morning and peak hours of weekday traffic. Adding to traffic delays is an at-grade crossing with the CSX Railroad. U.S. 41 parallels the CSX line south from central Land O' Lakes to Lutz.

01/03/22

Leading away from a commercial strip at Village Lakes Shopping Center, SR 54 straightens out eastward at Camp Indianhead Road. The state road historically looped north along Camp Indianhead Road and Catfish Lake to circumvent an area of wetlands here.

04/25/15

Collier Parkway constitutes a major collector route joining SR 54 and Land O' Lakes with County Line Road to the south and northward through suburban development east of the U.S. 41 corridor to CR 583 (Ehren Cutoff).

04/25/15

Eastbound reassurance marker posted by Willow Bend Towne Center retail plaza after Collier Parkway.

04/25/15

Livingston Road heads south from a signalized intersection with SR 54 to Lutz and Bearss Avenue by New Tampa.

04/25/15

Oak Grove Boulevard weaves southward from SR 54 through the Oak Grove community to County Line Road.

09/24/16

Curving northeast, SR 54 enters a heavily commercialized stretch preceding the diamond interchange joining SR 56 with I-75. SR 54 previously turned northward along into Wesley Chapel along what is now Old Cypress Creek Road. This alignment was bypassed during construction to build SR 56 and the adjacent exchange.

03/06/22

The completion of SR 56 in June 2002 coincided with the renumbering of SR 54 north along Wesley Chapel Boulevard to CR 54. An end sign was erected, as SR 54 was no longer a continuous route between Land O' Lakes and Zephyrhills.

09/26/22

Anchored by the Tampa Premium Outlets center, a myriad of commercial development got underway in 2014 along the previously rural stretch on both SR 56 east and CR 54 (Wesley Chapel Boulevard) north. An extension of Wesley Chapel Boulevard was constructed south to a dead end at Cypress Creek as well.

03/06/22