The Florida's Turnpike is a 450-mile system of limited-access toll highways. Its Turnpike mainline passes through 11 counties from north Miami to a junction with Interstate 75 in north central Florida.

In addition to the 265-mile mainline, the Turnpike Enterprise includes the 47-mile Homestead Extension, which takes motorists to the top of the Florida Keys; the 23-mile Sawgrass Expressway/Toll 869 in Broward County; the 19-mile Seminole Expressway/Toll 417 in Seminole County; the 15-mile Veterans Expressway/Toll 589 in Tampa; an eight-mile portion of the Bee Line Expressway/Toll 528 in Orlando; the six-mile Southern Connector Extension of the Central Florida GreeneWay/Toll 417 in Orlando; and the 25-mile Polk Parkway.

The original 110-mile stretch of Turnpike from Golden Glades to Fort Pierce opened to traffic in 1957 as the Sunshine State Parkway, under the direction of the former Florida State Turnpike Authority. Florida's Turnpike is a user-financed facility whose toll revenue pays for new construction and maintenance of the entire system.

The Southern Connector Extension of Toll 417 officially opened to traffic on Sunday, June 23, 1996. The new 6.2 mile stretch links the existing Central Florida GreeneWay/Toll Road 417 with Interstate 4 south of U.S. 192 in...

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