Florida State Road 951

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SR 951's definition in 1945

Originally 22 miles long, State Road 951 is now an eight-mile-long north-south divided highway that provides access from the Tamiami Trail (US 41/SR 90) near Naples Manor to the popular tourist destination Marco Island. 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 to the east and north to intersect with US 41 near Collier-Seminole State Park.

A numbering anomaly within the Florida Department of Transportation’s numbering system of State Roads, SR 951 is the only SR 9xx highway that is not in Miami-Dade County: Krome Avenue (SR 997) lies 78 miles to the east; the similarly numbered SR 953 (LeJeune Road) is another 12.5 miles to the east.

State Road 951 had extended an additional 14 miles northward to an intersection with the then-State Road 846 (now Collier County Road 846), which provides access to the Big Cypress Swamp town of Immokalee and the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary. 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 serves as the western terminus of the transpeninsular Alligator Alley and the eastern terminus of the Collier County segment of SR 84.