Originally 22 miles long, State Road 951 is now an eight-mile-long north–south divided highway that provides access from the Tamiami Trail

Tamiami Trail

The Tamiami Trail is the southernmost of U.S. Highway 41 from State Road 60 in Tampa to U.S. Route 1 in Miami. The road also has the hidden designation of State Road 90....

 (US 41/SR 90) near Naples Manor

Naples Manor, Florida

Naples Manor is a census-designated place in Collier County, Florida, United States. The population was 5,186 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Naples–Marco Island Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...

 to the popular tourist destination

Tourism

Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes".Tourism has become a...

 Marco Island

Marco Island, Florida

Marco Island is a city in Collier County, Florida, United States, located on an island by the same name in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Southwest Florida. It is a principal city of the Naples–Marco Island Metropolitan Statistical Area...

. On mainland Florida, SR 951 is also called Isle of Capri Road; on Marco Island, SR 951 is North Collier Boulevard.

Motorists traveling south on SR 951 pass through woodland and drive by Marco Island Executive Airport before crossing Big Marco Pass on the Judge S.S. Jolly Bridge and arriving in the town of Marco. The southern terminus of SR 951 is an intersection with Collier County Road 92 (the former State Road 92 locally known as San Marco Road), which extends 13 miles (20.9 km) to the east and north to intersect with US 41 near Collier-Seminole State Park.

A numbering anomaly within the Florida Department of Transportation

Florida Department of Transportation

The Florida Department of Transportation is a decentralized agency charged with the establishment, maintenance, and regulation of public transportation in the state of Florida. The department was formed in 1969. It absorbed the powers of the Florida State Road Department...

’s numbering system of State Roads, SR 951 is the only SR 9xx highway that is not in Miami-Dade County

Miami-Dade County, Florida

Miami-Dade County is a county located in the southeastern part of the state of Florida. As of 2010 U.S. Census, the county had a population of 2,496,435, making it the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States...

: Krome Avenue (SR 997

State Road 997 (Florida)

State Road 997, also known as Krome Avenue and West 177 Avenue is a north–south state highway in western Miami-Dade County, Florida. It runs from U.S. Route 1 just south of Florida City north across U.S. Route 41 to U.S. Route 27 near Opa-locka West Airport, just south of the Broward...

) lies 78 miles (125.5 km) to the east; the similarly numbered SR 953

State Road 953 (Florida)

State Road 953 - locally known as LeJeune Road , West 42nd Avenue, Southeast 8th Avenue, and East 8th Avenue - is a long north–south street in Miami-Dade County, Florida, and running a few miles west of central Miami. Its southern terminus is an intersection with U.S. Route 1 in Coral...

 (LeJeune Road) is another 12.5 miles (20.1 km) to the east.

State Road 951 had extended an additional 14 miles (22.5 km) northward to an intersection with the then-State Road 846 (now Collier County Road 846), which provides access to the Big Cypress Swamp

Big Cypress National Preserve

Big Cypress National Preserve is a United States National Preserve located in southern Florida, about 45 miles west of Miami. The Big Cypress, along with Big Thicket National Preserve in Texas, became the first national preserves in the United States National Park System when they were...

 town of Immokalee

Immokalee, Florida

Immokalee is a census-designated place in Collier County, Florida, United States. The population was 19,763 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Naples–Marco Island Metropolitan Statistical Area. The settlement was originally known as Gopher Ridge...

 and the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary

Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary

Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary is a National Audubon Society sanctuary located in southwest Florida, north of Naples, Florida and east of Bonita Springs, in the United States. The sanctuary was established to protect one of the largest remaining stands of Bald Cypress and Pond Cypress Corkscrew Swamp...

. The Florida State Road designations of both roads were phased out in the 1980s, as they were also removed from the former State Roads 74, 720, 832, 833, 835, 850, and 858 (and portions of still-existing State Roads) in the Big Cypress Swamp. An intersection with the current Collier County Road 951 near Golden Gate

Golden Gate, Florida

Golden Gate is a community and census-designated place in Collier County, Florida, United States. The population was 20,951 as recorded in the 2000 census...

 serves as the western terminus of the transpeninsular Alligator Alley

Alligator Alley

Alligator Alley is a section of Interstate 75 and State Road 84 extending from Naples on the west coast of Florida to Weston on the east...

 and the eastern terminus of the Collier County segment of SR 84

State Road 84 (Florida)

Originally extending from the Tamiami Trail in Naples to Federal Highway in Fort Lauderdale, State Road 84 now consists of two noncontiguous pieces:...

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