State Road 553 - Park Road

Park Road expands from four to six lanes north of U.S. 92 (Baker Street) as SR 553 begins.

11/26/03

Park Road intersects the south side frontage road for Interstate 4 just ahead of the diamond interchange with the six lane freeway.

05/31/15

SR 553 (Park Road) passes I-4 ahead of the westbound on-ramp to Tampa.

11/26/03

Park Road concludes ahead at Sam Allen Road (CR 580).

05/30/20

Sam Allen Road (CR 580) serves as a northern truck route, connecting Park Road with SR 39A (Buchman Highway) and SR 39 (Alexander Street) to its west.

05/30/20

Park Road stems south from Sam Allen Road (CR 580) to Interstate 4. The unsigned branch of CR 580 comprises a four lane divided highway for 0.6 miles to SR 553.

05/31/15

A diamond interchange joins Park Road with Interstate 4 in northeast Plant City.

09/10/19

Frontage roads accompany both sides of Interstate 4 west to SR 39A (Paul Buchman Highway) and east to County Line Road.

05/31/15

SR 553 officially begins at the north frontage road intersection of Park Road. The arterial southbound next splits with the westbound entrance ramp for I-4 to Tampa.

09/10/19

Interstate 4 runs across the north side of Plant City to SR 566. The cross-peninsula freeway continues west from there to Mango and I-75.

09/10/19

East from Plant City, I-4 crosses the Polk County line into the city of Lakeland, where it gradually turns northeast toward the Orlando area.

09/10/19

Park Road intersects S Frontage Road between I-4 and Mike E. Sansone Community Park. Traffic lights were added here the week of July 9, 2018.¹

03/20/20

Park Road forms part of a truck bypass for through traffic headed south on SR 39 to SR 60 at Hopewell. With the realignment of SR 39 west onto Alexander Street, this trailblazer was removed.

05/31/15

The lone confirming marker for SR 553 south precedes Spencer Street and the Plant City residential street grid.

07/02/19

Cherry Street intersects SR 553 (Park Road) west from Ellis-Methvin Park and Wilder Road and east from through neighborhood areas from Shannon Avenue.

07/02/19

Approaching the south end of SR 553 at U.S. 92, another trailblazer directed truckers to remain southward along Park Road (CR 574) for SR 39.

05/31/15

U.S. 92 (Baker Street) parallels a CSX Railroad line east from Park Road into Lakeland and west to a one way couplet with Reynolds Street through Downtown Plant City.

07/02/19

Park Road continues south from U.S. 92 and an at-grade crossing with the CSX Railroad as a four lane arterial with a grassy median.

05/31/15

Unsigned CR 574 ends at the Park Road intersection with Alsobrook Street west and Coronet Road south. Collectively the east-west road is CR 574A, an unmarked route from Collins Street (old SR 39) south of Downtown and Coronet Junction and Medulla Road east to County Line Road.

05/31/15

Park Road (CR 39B) advances a half mile south from Alsobrook Street (CR 574A) to separate with Jim Johnson Road at the Randy Larson Softball Complex. A signalized intersection with Gordon Food Service Road west precedes the wye intersection.

05/31/15

Park Road (CR 39B) curves west into Plant City while the four lane arterial of Park Road defaults onto Jim Johnson Road south to Alexander Street west.

05/31/15

Alexander Street stems west from Jim Johnson Road as a four lane landscaped boulevard through the Walden Woods community to James L. Redmon Parkway (SR 39).

05/31/15

Alexander Street intersects Walden Woods Drive just ahead of the commercial strip along James L. Redman Parkway (SR 39).

05/31/15

Prior to 2013, SR 39 followed all of James L. Redman Parkway north through Plant City. Completed at that time was a northward extension of Alexander Street from I-4, which completed a bypass of Plant City for SR 39 to the west.

05/31/15

Alexander Street crosses James L. Redman Parkway to become part of the SR 39 bypass around Plant City. Previously this arterial loop was unsigned CR 39A. SR 39 south otherwise extends 3.5 miles south to SR 60 and CR 39.

05/31/15