U.S. 98/State Road 50 East - Brooksville to Ridge Manor

U.S. 98 south and SR 50 east combine 8.2 miles ahead of Interstate 75.

10/23/19

Distance sign posted after CR 541 (Spring Lake Highway) south and CR 484 (Mondhill Hill Road) west. The unincorporated community of Ridge Manor lies seven miles ahead.

02/09/14

Reassurance markers for U.S. 98 south / SR 50 east posted along Cortez Boulevard by the Hill 'N Dale community.

02/09/14

Four miles further east, U.S. 98/SR 50 enter a single point urban interchange (SPUI) interchange with Interstate 75. Construction completed in Fall 2019 upgraded this exchange from a diamond interchange.

11/11/19

Interstate 75 angles southwest across ranch land from U.S. 98/SR 50 south into Pasco County to San Antonio and Land O' Lakes.

11/11/19

The entrance ramp for Interstate 75 south to Tampa departs U.S. 98/SR 50 east. I-75 partitions with I-275 south to St. Petersburg in 27 miles.

11/11/19

Passing under I-75, U.S. 98 south / SR 50 east reach the northbound ramp for Ocala, Gainesville and Lake City.

11/11/19

Windmere Road south and Bronson Boulevard north come together at a traffic light just east of Interstate 75. Windmere Road provides one of two access roads to the Sherman Hills golf course community to the north.

01/20/20

Continuing beyond Windmere Road and I-75, U.S. 98/SR 50 partition at Ridge Manor for Lakeland and Orlando respectively.

02/09/14

Croom Rital Road stems north from U.S. 98/SR 50 (Cortez Boulevard) to Withlacoochee State Forest and the Croom Wildlife Management Area. Kettering Road spurs south from the intersection to a Wal-Mart Distribution Center.

02/09/14

Withlacoochee State Trail spans U.S. 98/SR 50 (Cortez Boulevard) just east of Croom Rital Road. The multi-use path is a linear state park stretching 46 miles from Citrus Springs to Trilby. It replaced a Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, which was abandoned by CSX in 1987 and purchased by the state in 1989.¹

02/09/14

U.S. 98 south / SR 50 east enter the Ridge Manor community, which constitutes a street grid network of mostly unpaved roads to the north and more conventional subdivisions to the south.

02/09/14

Curving southeast into Ridge Manor, U.S. 98/SR 50 next spans the Withlacoochee River. The 141 mile long waterway flows west from Green Swamp near Polk City into the Gulf of Mexico by Yankeetown.

02/09/14

Ridge Manor Boulevard (the former alignment of State Road 50), crosses U.S. 98/SR 50 ahead of this shield assembly. Cortez Boulevard bypassed this stretch of roadway.

02/25/17

U.S. 98 parts ways with SR 50 (Cortez Boulevard) for McKethan Road south to Lakeland. Olancha Road, the former alignment of SR 23, ties in from the north.

02/25/17

SR 50 remains eastward through Ridge Manor to Groveland while U.S. 98 turns south to Trilby and an overlap with U.S. 301 to Dade City.

02/25/17