Florida State Road 688: Difference between revisions

State Road 688
State Road 688
Route information
	Maintained by FDOT
Length	12.5 mi (20.1 km)
Major junctions
	; Alt US 19/SR 595 in Seminole; SR 693 in Largo; US 19 in Largo; SR 686 from Clearwater to St. Petersburg
Location
Country	United States
State	Florida
Highway system
	Florida State Highway System; Interstate; US; State Former; Pre‑1945; ; Toll; Scenic;

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State Road 688 is an east-west route in Pinellas County running from Indian Rocks Beach to northeastern St. Petersburg, Florida, where it feeds into Interstate 275.

The highway changes its name as it heads east across Pinellas County. From Gulf Boulevard in Indian Rocks Beach, it runs along 5th Avenue and crosses the bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway as the Indian Rocks Causeway. Once off the causeway, it becomes Walsingham Road and runs on to the intersection of Walsingham and Ulmerton Roads. Walsingham continues east, but State Road 688 loops north and then east on Ulmerton Road. So it remains as it skirts Largo through Pinellas County. It crosses US 19 and then merges briefly with Roosevelt Boulevard (SR 686). It continues into northeast St. Petersburg and its traffic merges with I-275.

Of historical note, Ulmerton Road was named for the community of Ulmers, which arose around Marion Ulmer's turpentine still, timber and naval stores interests in the first half of the twentieth century. In the 1950's, the area was very rural, and cattle were driven along the then dirt road. Today it carries traffic across the middle of the most densely populated county in Florida.

References and further reading

Largo Area Historical Society. From Pines and Palmettos-- A portrait of Largo. The Donning Company Publishers. Virginia Beach, Va. 2005.
Largo Bicentennial Book Committee. Largo, then till . . . . Largo Area Historical Society. 1979.
Pinellas County Staff. Pinellas County GIS Viewer. Online January 12, 2006.

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+|starting_terminus=[[Image:Florida 699.svg|25px]] [[Florida State Road 699|SR 699]] in [[Indian Rocks Beach, Florida|Indian Rocks Beach]]
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+|ending_terminus=[[Image:I-275.svg|25px]] [[Interstate 275 (Florida)|I-275]] in [[St. Petersburg, Florida|St. Petersburg]]
+|previous_type=FL
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 [[Image:Florida_state_highway_688_001.jpg|thumb|300px|right|January 12, 2006, looking west from the [[Pinellas Trail|Pinellas (Fred Marquis) Trail]] bridge over State Road 688 (Ulmerton Road).]]
-'''State Road 688''' is an east-west route in [[Pinellas County]] running from [[Indian Rocks Beach, Florida|Indian Rocks Beach]], through [[Largo, Florida]] to the eastern side of the county, to northeastern St. Petersburg, Florida, where it feeds into [[Interstate 275 (Florida)|Interstate 275]].
+'''State Road 688''' is an east-west route in [[Pinellas County]] running from [[Indian Rocks Beach, Florida|Indian Rocks Beach]] to northeastern [[St. Petersburg, Florida]], where it feeds into [[Interstate 275 (Florida)|Interstate 275]].
-The highway changes its name as it heads east across Pinellas County. From Gulf Boulevard in [[Indian Rocks Beach, Florida|Indian Rocks Beach,]] it runs along 5th Avenue  and crosses the bridge over the [[Intracoastal Waterway]] as the Indian Rocks Causeway. Once off the causeway, it becomes Walsingham Road and runs on to the intersection of Walsingham and Ulmerton Roads. Walsingham continues east, but State Road 688 loops north and then east on Ulmerton Road. So it remains as it skirts [[Largo, Florida|Largo]] through [[Pinellas County, Florida|Pinellas County]]. It crosses [[U.S. Route 19|US 19]] and then merges briefly with Roosevelt Boulevard ([[State Road 686 (Florida)|State Road 686]]). It continues into northeast [[St. Petersburg, Florida|St. Petersburg]] and its traffic merges with I-275.
+The highway changes its name as it heads east across Pinellas County. From Gulf Boulevard in [[Indian Rocks Beach, Florida|Indian Rocks Beach]], it runs along 5th Avenue and crosses the bridge over the [[Intracoastal Waterway]] as the Indian Rocks Causeway. Once off the causeway, it becomes Walsingham Road and runs on to the intersection of Walsingham and Ulmerton Roads. Walsingham continues east, but State Road 688 loops north and then east on Ulmerton Road. So it remains as it skirts [[Largo, Florida|Largo]] through [[Pinellas County, Florida|Pinellas County]]. It crosses [[U.S. Route 19|US 19]] and then merges briefly with Roosevelt Boulevard ([[State Road 686 (Florida)|SR 686]]). It continues into northeast [[St. Petersburg, Florida|St. Petersburg]] and its traffic merges with I-275.
 Of historical note, Ulmerton Road was named for the community of Ulmers, which arose around Marion Ulmer's [[turpentine]] still, [[timber]] and [[naval stores]] interests in the first half of the twentieth century. In the 1950's, the area was very rural, and cattle were driven along the then dirt road. Today it carries traffic across the middle of the most densely populated county in [[Florida]].
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 *Pinellas County Staff. [http://pubgis.co.pinellas.fl.us/public_gis/ Pinellas County GIS Viewer.] Online January 12, 2006.
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