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Florida State Road 29

State Road 29 (SR 29) is a state highway that runs north–south through Southwest Florida. It begins in Carnestown (just north of Everglades City) and runs north to a point just south of Palmdale. A rural road, it runs mostly through uninhabited farmland in its northern half, and along wetlands in its southern half. The route previously continued south of Carnestown to Everglades City and Chokoloskee, which has since become County Road 29 (CR 29).

CR 29 begins on Chokoloskee Island at SR 29's historic southern terminus, where it known as Smallwood Avenue (named for Ted Smallwood, who opened the areas historic general store which is now a museum). From Chokoloksee, CR 29 crosses a causeway across Chokoloskee Bay to Everglades City. In Everglades City, it turns east along Broadway and north along Collier Avenue, where it continues out of the city and terminating at U.S. Route 41 in Carnestown.

SR 29 officially begins at an intersection with U.S. Route 41 (Tamiami Trail) in Carnestown. From there, it travels north along the western edge of the Big Cypress National Preserve and the eastern edge of the Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Forest, which the road borders until it reaches Interstate 75 (Alligator Alley) at Miles City.

North of I-75, State Road 29 borders the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge to the west and continues to border the Big Cypress National Preserve up to a point just south of Sunniland.

SR 29 turns west briefly and back north through the city of Immokalee, a small farming town with large migrant populations. SR 29 expands to four lanes in as it passes through central Immokalee along Main Street and North 15th Street. Just north of Immokalee, SR 29 is reduced to two lanes before intersecting with State Road 82, which travels west to Fort Myers.

SR 29 continues due north through more agricultural areas until it reaches the city of LaBelle. SR 29 enters LaBelle along Main Street. It then comes to an intersection with SR 80, a transpeninsular route connecting Fort Myers and West Palm Beach. SR 29 then turns east along SR 80 for one block before turning north again at Bridge Street. SR 29 then crosses the Caloosahatchee River on a bascule drawbridge.

On the north side of the river, SR 29 intersects CR 78 and SR 78 before continuing north through rural Glades County. SR 29 comes to its northern terminus at an intersection with US 27 (unsigned SR 25), just south of Palmdale.

State Road 29 was extended from Immokalee to Everglades City in the 1920s around the same time as the construction of the Tamiami Trail. Its construction was championed by Barron Collier as a land connection to Everglades City (the county seat of Collier County at the time). The route was originally designated SR 164 until it was changed to SR 29 during the 1945 Florida State Road renumbering. SR 29 was extended from Everglades City to Chokoloskee in 1956 upon the completion of a causeway across Chokoloskee Bay.

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