Florida State Road 527

Image:Lakeeola 09232006 trees.jpg|thumb|left|Lake Eola is one of the destinations along SR 527
State Road 527 is a major arterial road through the Orlando MSA extending through Orange County. Its southern terminus is at SR 482. Much of the route runs in close proximity to the SunRail commuter railroad line.

Route description

Florida State Route 527 originates at an intersection with Sand Lake Road, also known as Florida State Route 482. It travels northward along Orange Avenue">Orange County, Florida">Orange Avenue, eventually passing through the center of downtown Orlando. Over Lake Lucerne, State Road 527 becomes a one-way pair with southbound SR 527 occupying Orange Avenue and northbound SR 527 occupying Rosalind Avenue. At Central Boulevard South Orange Avenue and South Rosalind Avenue become North Orange Avenue and North Rosalind Avenue respectively, but north of Lake Eola, northbound SR 527 veers to the northwest onto North Magnolia Avenue. After crossing the SunRail Main Line, the one way pair ends and the route continues as North Orange Avenue in a north-easterly direction, crossing Orlando Avenue and terminating its ten and a half-mile journey its intersection with Fairbanks Avenue in Winter Park.

History

SR 3A was defined by number in 1935 state law, chapter 17341, approved May 27, 1935:

A certain road described as extending from the intersection of Orange Avenue and Fairbanks Avenue in Winter Park, then Southerly on Orange Avenue to its intersection with State Road 22 in the City of Orlando.

This was established to keep this section of former SR 3, which was to be bypassed around 1937 along the Orlando Shortcut and Mills Avenue, a state road. South of SR 22, Orange Avenue was still part of SR 2.
SR 3A was extended in both directions by number in 1939 state law chapter 19049, approved May 12, 1939:

Beginning at the point where the new location of State Road No. 3 intersects with the old location near the south line of the Town of Lake Maitland, thence along said old location thereof and along Park, Fairbanks and Orange Avenue in Winter Park, Orange Avenue in Orlando, and such route as may be selected by the State Road Department from Orange Avenue to Kuhl Avenue in Orlando, to the South city limits thereof, thence along the present Orlando and Kissimmee road to the county-line between Orange and Osceola Counties.

This kept the rest of old SR 3 in Winter Park in the State Road system, as well as old SR 2 south of SR 22, which was bypassed around 1939.
Some state maps show SR 3A on old SR 2 north of Kissimmee in Osceola County and through Maitland into Seminole County, but it doesn't appear that these were added, unless they were added in 1941 when most of the through roads in Orange County were designated as State Roads.
In the 1945 renumbering, most of SR 3A became SR 527; SR 527 extended south into Osceola County but not north to Seminole County. The part between Orlando Avenue and the Park Avenue/Fairbanks Avenue intersection in Winter Park instead became part of SR 426, and was a gap in SR 527.