Florida State Road 407
State Road 407, known locally as Challenger Memorial Parkway, is a spur from Florida [State Road 528|SR 528] that links to SR 405. By utilizing the SR 407 to SR 405 route, travelers from Central Florida can access the Kennedy Space Center and the city of Titusville.
Some road maps show SR 407 between SR 528 and Interstate 95 to be a toll road. While no tolls are collected on SR 407 and it is not signed as a toll road, it is impossible to drive on this section without also connecting to or from State Road 528 and paying a toll.
Route description
State Road 407 was built as a two-lane freeway, meaning that although the highway is expressway-standard, it is merely two lanes with only a dotted or solid yellow line in the middle separating northbound and southbound traffic.Within the SR 528/SR 407/I-95 triangle is a swampland containing the southern unit of St. Johns [National Wildlife Refuge], a popular resting area for migrating birds, and just to the west of the triangle is Tosohatchee [Wildlife Management Area], which extends from SR 50 southward to just south of SR 520 in nearby Orange County.
History
The street is named after Space Shuttle Challenger which Space [Shuttle Challenger disaster|disintegrated 73 seconds after launch] in 1986.The northern half of the road lost its two-lane freeway qualities when an at-grade intersection was built just south of SR 405, providing a southern exit to Florida's Spaceport Industrial Park and Space Coast Regional Airport.