State Road 685 - Henderson Boulevard


This 1975 map of Tampa shows State Road 685 routed along Dale Mabry Highway south of U.S. 92 (Gandy Boulevard) to Interbay Boulevard. This is now State Road 573. Also of note are both Secondary 600A along Manhattan Avenue and Henderson Boulevard and Secondary 685A leading west from Dale Mabry Highway to Port Tampa and Picnic Island Boulevard. Both of these routes are no longer designated.
State Road 685 travels over 14 miles mostly as the unsigned counterpart to U.S. 41 Business between Downtown Tampa and Lutz. A 0.98 mile segment of SR 685 is fully signed along Henderson Boulevard between U.S. 92 (Dale Mabry Highway) and SR 60 (Kennedy Boulevard). The state road originally ran south along Dale Mabry Highway to MacDill Air Force Base while Henderson Boulevard southwest from U.S. 92 to Manhattan Avenue and Manhattan Avenue south to Gandy Boulevard (U.S. 92) was State Road 600A.

Henderson Boulevard angles northeast from Bay To Bay Boulevard to Dale Mabry Highway (U.S. 92), where it becomes a part of State Road 685. The lone northbound shield follows.
02/23/20
Swann Avenue heads east from the Beach Park neighborhood to intersect SR 685 (Henderson Boulevard) at Himes Avenue. Himes Avenue travels north from South Tampa to Oakford Park.
02/23/20
SR 685 turns east onto SR 60 in an unsigned overlap to Downtown Tampa. SR 60 represents a cross-peninsula route originating at Clearwater Beach that links Tampa with Brandon and Bartow to the east. This guide was removed by 2017.
03/07/14
Henderson Boulevard ends as traffic defaults onto Kennedy Boulevard east ahead of MacDill Avenue. SR 60 constitutes a four lane commercial boulevard between Westshore and Downtown.
02/23/20

A distance sign references the distance to Downtown St. Petersburg. This sign is a likely remnant from when Henderson Boulevard and Manhattan Avenue south from Dale Mabry Highway was designed as SR 600A.
03/07/14
Azeele Street intersects SR 685 (Henderson Boulevard) south at this traffic light. Azeele Street leads east to Hyde Park.
03/07/14
Three blocks further south, SR 685 (Henderson Boulevard) enters a six-point intersection with north-south Himes Avenue and east-west Swann Avenue. Himes connects with South Tampa while Swann leads west to Beach Park.
03/07/14
Photo Credits:
- ABRoads: 02/23/20
- Alex Nitzman: 03/07/14
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Page Updated Monday March 02, 2020.