U.S. Route 27 in Florida

U.S. Highway 27
U.S. Highway 27
Claude Pepper Memorial Highway
	US 27 highlighted in red
Route information
	Maintained by FDOT
Length	496.352 mi (798.801 km)
Existed	1934–present
Major junctions
South end	US 1 in Miami
	Florida's Turnpike Extension in Hialeah Gardens; I-75 in Weston; US 98 near Sebring; US 17 / US 92 in Haines City; I-4 in Four Corners; Florida's Turnpike in Groveland; I-75 in Ocala; US 41 in High Springs; US 19 / US 98 / US 221 in Perry; I-10 in Tallahassee;
North end	US 27 / SR 1 towards Bainbridge, GA
Location
Country	United States
State	Florida
Counties	Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Hendry, Glades, Highlands, Polk, Lake, Sumter, Marion, Levy, Alachua, Columbia, Suwannee, Lafayette, Taylor, Madison, Jefferson, Leon, Gadsden
Highway system
	United States Numbered Highway System; List; Special; Divided; Florida State Highway System; Interstate; US; State Former; Pre‑1945; ; Toll; Scenic;

U.S. Highway 27 (US 27) in Florida is a north–south United States Numbered Highway. It runs 496.352 miles (798.801 km) from the Miami metropolitan area northwest to the Tallahassee metropolitan area. Throughout the state, US 27 has been designated the Claude Pepper Memorial Highway by the Florida Legislature. It was named after long-time Florida statesperson Claude Pepper, who served in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. The stretch running from Miami to South Bay was originally designated the Thomas E. Will Memorial Highway by the Florida Legislature in 1937 when that portion was known as State Road 26 (SR 26).^[2] Thomas E. Will, the founder of Okeelanta, had worked for almost 20 years to get the state to build a road from Miami to the area south of Lake Okeechobee.^[2] For most of its length in the state, US 27 is a divided highway.

Between Miami and Ocala, US 27 follows SR 25; between Leesburg and Williston, it follows SR 500; between Williston and High Springs, it follows SR 45; between High Springs and downtown Tallahassee, it follows SR 20; within downtown Tallahassee, it follows SR 61; and, between Tallahassee and the Georgia border, it follows State Road 63 (SR 63).

Concurrencies include SR 80 between South Bay and Clewiston, SR 78 from Moore Haven to Citrus Center, US 98 between Sebring and western Frostproof, and US 441 between Leesburg and Ocala, which also includes a concurrency with US 301 between Belleview and Ocala. Others include US 41 between Williston and High Springs, SR 20 between High Springs and Tallahassee, US 129 in Branford, US 19 between Perry and Capps, and SR 61 in Tallahassee.

^ "Straight Line Diagram of Road Inventory". Florida Department of Transportation. Archived from the original on July 30, 2019. Retrieved December 14, 2023.
^ ^a ^b Dovell, J. E. (1948). "Thomas Elmer Will, Twentieth Century Pioneer" (PDF). Tequesta. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 23, 2019. Retrieved April 23, 2019.

[fdot_sld-1] "Straight Line Diagram of Road Inventory". Florida Department of Transportation. Archived from the original on July 30, 2019. Retrieved December 14, 2023.

[teq-2] Dovell, J. E. (1948). "Thomas Elmer Will, Twentieth Century Pioneer" (PDF). Tequesta. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 23, 2019. Retrieved April 23, 2019.

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