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Entering Osceola County, US 92 picks up the Orange Blossom Trail name. Orange Blossom Trail (OBT) takes US 92 east and north through Kissimmee and into Orlando. The OBT name temporarily ends at Pleasant Hill Road (former SR 531) in southern Kissimmee, where US 92 uses John Young Parkway (formerly Bermuda Avenue) to Vine Street (US 192/SR 530). It turns east there on US 192, turning north at Main Street, which becomes OBT at the north city limits. US 441 (along with SR 500) joins US 92 at US 192—thus OBT carries US 17, US 92 and US 441, as well as unsigned SR 500 and SR 600, from Kissimmee to Orlando. Along this stretch, the road intersects the Osceola Parkway in Kissimmee, SR 417 (Central Florida GreeneWay) at exit 11, and the Central Florida Parkway as it passes east of the resort area of Orlando that includes Walt Disney World and affiliated resorts, Sea World, and Universal Studios. OBT then comes to a massive combined interchange with Florida's Turnpike and SR 528 (Beachline Expressway) in Sky Lake. North of this interchange, the road passes west of The Florida Mall and intersects SR 482.
The road reaches an interchange with I-4 in Holden Heights. OBT continues into Orlando and comes to a diamond interchange with SR 408 (East–West Expressway) at exit 9. Orange Blossom Trail bypasses downtown Orlando to the west, meeting SR 50 (Colonial Drive) northwest of downtown. At SR 50, US 17/US 92 turns east, while US 441 continues northwest on OBT towards Apopka. US 17, concurrent with SR 50 (and SR 600), meets the south end of Edgewater Drive and crosses I-4 and SR 527 (Orange Avenue and Magnolia Avenue) before meeting Mills Avenue (SR 15), where US 17/US 92 turns north.
Mills Avenue carries SR 15 on both sides of SR 50, but is only signed as such to the south, as north of SR 50, it carries US 92 (and unsigned SR 600). It crosses Lake Estelle on the Andrews Causeway before reaching the border between Orlando and Winter Park.
In Winter Park, US 92's name changes to Orlando Avenue. It crosses SR 527 (Orange Avenue) and SR 426 (Fairbanks Avenue) and meets the east end of SR 423 (Lee Road) while bypassing downtown Winter Park to the west. Shortly after crossing into Maitland, it passes under the SunRail tracks (formerly CSX Transportation's "A" Line), and the old road through downtown Winter Park — Park Avenue — merges in from the southeast. US 92 meets the east end of CR 438A (Lake Avenue), which heads west to Eatonville, and then splits from the old alignment (CR 427) near downtown Maitland. It crosses Horatio Avenue (former County Road 436A) and meets the east end of SR 414 (Maitland Boulevard) before crossing into Seminole County.
In Seminole County, US 92 is a main commercial strip as it heads through Casselberry (where it crosses SR 436 Semoran Boulevard at an interchange) and Longwood (where it crosses SR 434). North of Longwood it meets the north end of SR 419 and crosses CR 427 (the old alignment). Lake Mary Boulevard, Airport Boulevard and SR 417 cross US 92 in southern Sanford, and it meets the west end of CR 427A. At 25th Street, southwest of downtown Sanford, SR 46 comes in from the east and turns north to run concurrently near downtown; CR 46A heads west on 25th Street. 13th Street marks the west end of CR 415, and at 1st Street the triple concurrency turns west. Before leaving the Sanford city limits, the routes run over a bridge for a railroad line near the Sanford Amtrak Auto Train station, as well as the nearby SunRail station. The routes leave the concurrency with SR 46 at the north end of CR 15 (once a branch of SR 15), and then runs north towards the interchange with I-4 where US 17/US 92 turns west along the south shore of Lake Monroe (part of the St. Johns River). Just before crossing the river into Volusia County at the west end of the lake, which runs unsigned with SR 15 and SR 600 here) and crosses under at the end of its own bridge across the river (the St. Johns River Veterans Memorial Bridge).
thumb|left|A sign for US 92 on Ridgewood Avenue in Daytona Beach
DeBary to Daytona Beach
After crossing the St. Johns River via the C.A. "Bill" Benedict Bridge, US 92 continues north into Volusia County, meeting the west ends of CR 4162 (in DeBary), CR 4146, and CR 4145 (in Orange City). North of Orange City is a trumpet interchange with SR 472, a four-lane connection to I-4. US 92 then crosses CR 4116 and meets the south end of SR 15A, a western bypass of DeLand. US 92 passes through downtown DeLand on Woodland Boulevard, crossing SR 44 at New York Avenue. The intersection of US 92 and SR 44 does not allow any turns—right or left—and so adjacent city streets are marked for those turns. In northern DeLand, US 92 splits to the east on International Speedway Boulevard, while US 17 continues north. To the west of the split, International Speedway Boulevard is CR 92, a short connection to SR 15A that allows traffic on US 92 to bypass downtown DeLand. SR 15A itself rejoins US 17 north of DeLand.
thumb|right|Eastern terminus of US 92 at SR A1A in Daytona Beach
From DeLand to its terminus in Daytona Beach, US 92 carries the local name, International Speedway Boulevard, running through Tiger Bay State Forest then passing a connecting road towards I-4 with a westbound only flyover off-ramp and an eastbound only on-ramp from exit 129. The highway serves as the southern terminus of LPGA Boulevard then has an interchange with I-95 before it passes by the Daytona International Speedway. US 92 passes by other landmarks such as Daytona Beach International Airport and Volusia Mall. US 92 spans the Halifax River and Intracoastal Waterway via the Broadway Bridge before reaching its eastern terminus at SR A1A.
History
70px|thumb|right|A US 92 shield used in Florida prior to 1993
US 92 was in the original 1926 plan, connecting Tampa (concurrent with US 41) to US 1 in Daytona Beach. It had been the Dixie Highway Tampa-St. Petersburg Loop from Plant City to Haines City, the West Mainline from Haines City to Orlando, and the East Florida Connector from Orlando to DeLand.
US 92 was signed along the following roads in 1927:
- SR 17 from Tampa to Haines City;
- SR 2 from Haines City to Orlando;
- SR 3 from Orlando to DeLand; and
- SR 21 from DeLand to Daytona Beach.
When the bypass of downtown Tampa on SR 17 (Hillsborough Avenue) opened in the early 1930s, US 92 and US 41 were rerouted to use it. US 92 turned south from the new road where US 41 turned north, at Nebraska Avenue (former SR 5, probably then a spur of SR 5), and continued to end in downtown Tampa.
A 1942 map shows US 92 extended west along SR 17 and SR 229 to end at US 19 in Dunedin; it was soon truncated back to Tampa.
In the 1945 renumbering, the whole route of US 92 was numbered SR 600, except for the section south to downtown Tampa, which was SR 45. It was extended west and south to downtown St. Petersburg along SR 600 and SR 687 in 1953.
In 1947, the route was extended east in Daytona Beach across the Intracoastal Waterway and the Halifax River after the Broadway Bridge was reconstructed and opened.
In 1961, US 92 was moved to bypass downtown Lakeland, along SR 517 and SR 546. The old route was signed as US 92 Bus. until 1998.
Until 1999, US 92 ran through downtown Kissimmee on Emmett Street, Broadway and Main Street, along with US 17.
In 2006, US 92 (along with US 17) was re-signed to bypass downtown Kissimmee, moving it to US 192 from John Young Parkway to US 441.
In late 2013, FDOT began an $80 million project to construct a flyover interchange with US 17/US 92 traveling over SR 436 in Casselberry. This interchange was built to alleviate congestion at one of the busiest intersections in Florida. The flyover interchange was completed on April 6, 2015, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony held.
Major intersections
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Special routes
Kissimmee truck route
US Highway 17/US Highway 92 Truck (US 17/US 92 Truck) is an alternate route for US 17/US 92 in northern Kissimmee, following John Young Parkway and the Osceola Parkway (CR 522) instead of Vine Street (US 192) and Orange Blossom Trail. It was signed in about 2011 when the single-point urban interchange at John Young and Osceola Parkways was completed.
Maitland truck route
US Highway 17/US Highway 92 Truck (US 17/US 92 Truck) is designated to divert overheight truck traffic away from a low railroad bridge that carries the SunRail rail line over US 17-92 in southern Maitland.
Lakeland business route
U.S. Route 92 Business (US 92 Bus.) in Lakeland was a business route designed to keep trucks from entering Downtown Lakeland that followed SR 600 between 1961 and 1998. The route began where US 92 turned north onto SR 517. It runs along George Jenkins Boulevard, then makes a sharp southeast turn along Sloan Avenue, while George Jenkins Boulevard becomes SR 548. Sloan Avenue becomes a divided highway between the bridge beneath the CSX Lakeland Subdivision, only to emerge at the intersection of West Main Street where it turns east. The road's major intersections include a partial interchange with SR 563, and then SR 37, where West Main Street becomes East Main Street. The road makes a brief left turn onto Massachusetts Avenue in front of Lake Mirror for one block, then turns right at the end of Cedar Street where it runs along the north shore of Lake Mirror passing by Lakeland Amtrak Station. East Main makes a sharp right turn to the south before the intersection of Rose Street, then turns east again at the intersection of East Lake Street. From there it has an intersection with US 98 (SR 548), and after Lake Parker Avenue makes a north turn onto Tyler Road. The road crosses under the CSX Carters Subdivision, this time beneath a two-lane undivided bridge, and then curves onto East Gary Road, where it runs east until finally ending at US 92 along the south shore of Lake Parker. FDOT maps still show US 92 Bus. as an existing route.
References
External links
- Endpoints of U.S. Highway 92