⁴ᴷ Miami to Key West - Overseas Highway - The Whole Thing!

We drive from the southern terminus of I-95 in Miami to the Overseas Highway, and then through the Florida Keys, ending in Key West.
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[@donavanjohnson27]

Nice trip from Miami to key West along the overseas highway

[@RoadsOfAsiaBen]

Great drive! Have you heard Hurricane Helene made a landfall last night in Florida with Category 4 Major Hurricane at 140 mph (220 km/h) wind, which caused major destruction in Southeast and made histrionic record landfall in Big Bend region?

[@RiveraMichael4567]

Nice trip from Miami to the Keys. Sure is a long way.
By the way, I actually used to live in an apartment complex just blocks from the interchange of FL-874/Don Shula Expressway @ FL-990/SW 104 Street/Killian Parkway interchange (seen around 11:40) during my infant and toddler years. Good times. Moved out in summer 2008, just about a year and a half before FL-874, as well as both FL-878/Snapper Creek Expressway and FL-924/Gratigny Parkway ditched cash collection (or in FL-878's case, had ZERO tolls back then) in favor of toll-by-plate sporadically throughout 2010. Those were the first three toll roads in the state to make that conversion. FL-618/Selmon Expressway in Tampa would be converted in September of that same year. Currently, at the time of both the filming and publication of this video, the most recent Florida toll road to have followed through with this type of conversion is FL-570/Polk Parkway in Lakeland, which took effect in September 2022.
Another thing worth mentioning is that as seen from the beginning of your video to where you got on FL-878 at 9:12, that elevated viaduct to your right carries the MDT Metrorail system, which runs alongside US-1 all the way south to Dadeland South station (about 1/2 to 1 mile south Dadeland Mall and just a few feet north of the southern terminus of FL-826/Palmetto Expressway) and does its own route to the north through Downtown Miami and the health district, splitting into two lines at Earlington Heights. The Green Line goes to Palmetto (reuniting with FL-826), while the Orange Line goes to the MIA Airport.
NOTE: I may edit my comment in the future to be more clear.

[@RiveraMichael4567]

Also, as I'm sure you're aware, that same stretch of US-1 paralleling the Metrorail viaduct runs along the path of the Eastern route associated with the Dixie Highway, which is not just a single highway, but a network of roads that connected the Midwest with the South.
If you remember your recently-completed US-11 series, while you were on the path of the Lee Highway nearing Knoxville, Tennessee, you ended up overlapping with the Dixie Highway's Eastern route along Kingston Pike. Whilst along Kingston Pike, the Dixie Highway's Eastern route was associated with US-70, and with the concurrent Lee Highway associated with US-11, that concurrent stretch of US-11/US-70 along Kingston Pike was often refered to as the "Dixie-Lee Highway".
The Dixie Highway Autotrail's Eastern route, which (like the Lee Highway and many other autotrails) predates the US Highway system, ran from Miami, Florida to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, via these listed cites:
* Saginaw, Michigan
* Detroit, Michigan
* Toledo, Ohio
* Bowling Green, Ohio
* Lima, Ohio
* Dayton, Ohio
* Cincinnati, Ohio
* Lexington, Kentucky
* Knoxville, Tennessee
* Chattanooga, Tennessee
* Atlanta, Georgia ★
* Savannah, Georgia
* Jacksonville, Florida
* West Palm Beach, Florida
* Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Today, much of the Eastern route became US-25. In later history, the primary Eastern route (Knoxville to Macon) was largely paralleled and in some sections replaced by I-75, which also runs from Miami to Sault Ste. Marie. Large portions of the former US-25 in western Ohio became known (after I-75's completion in that area in 1963) by various names, including CR-25A, Dixie Drive, Dixie Highway, Cincinnati-Dayton Road, and, through Dayton, Patterson Boulevard and Keowee Street. A four-lane portion runs between Cygnet and Toledo, through Bowling Green, as OH-25. In Michigan, M-25 from Port Huron to Bay City incorporates the segment of old US-25 that both I-75 and I-94 did not supplant as a through route. The Eastern route from Jacksonville south largely became US-1. Throughout the Florida East Coast, the Dixie Highway's Eastern route serves as a major street in towns and cities along the way.
That stretch of the Dixie Highway's Eastern route seen at the beginning of this video is the only section of a former autotrail that I've PURLEY remember ever going on.
However, I think I might have also ridden along a small part of the Dixie Highway's Western route, which ran from Miami, Florida to Chicago, Illinois via these cities:
* Danville, Illinois
* Indianapolis, Indiana ★
* Bedford, Indiana
* Louisville, Kentucky
* Elizabethtown, Kentucky
* Bowling Green, Kentucky
* Nashville, Tennessee ★
* Chattanooga, Tennessee
* Atlanta, Georgia ★
* Macon, Georgia
* Albany, Georgia
* Tallahassee, Florida ★
* Gainesville, Florida
* Orlando, Florida
* Arcadia, Florida
* Naples, Florida
Except for realignments made since the 1920s, the Dixie Highway's Western route follows these highways:
* IL-1 and US-136 to Indianapolis, Indiana
* IN-37 and US-150 to Louisville, Kentucky
* US-31W, US-68, and US-431 to Nashville, Tennessee
* US-41, US-231, US-41A, and back onto US-41 to Chattanooga.
At Chattanooga, the western and eastern routes intersected; the western took a longer route along US-27 to Rome and then returned to US-41 at Cartersville via US-411. At Atlanta, the eastern route split off toward Madison, Georgia, with the western continuing to Macon along the present highways:
* US-41, GA-49, US-19, and US-319 to Tallahassee
* US-27 and US-41 to Orlando
* US-17 and US-41 (over the Tamiami Trail) to Miami.
There are also two additional routes associated with the Dixie Highway:
* Central route: A short cutoff between the Western route at Macon, Georgia, and the Eastern route at Jacksonville, Florida, forming a shorter route to Miami than the Western route on its own; it followed US-41, US-341, US-129, GA-32, and US-1.
* Carolina route: An alternate of the Eastern route which cut the distance between Knoxville, Tennessee and Waynesboro, Georgia, passing through Asheville, North Carolina, Greenville, South Carolina, and Augusta, Georgia. As with the mainline of the Eastern route in that area, the Carolina route became US-25. Concerning the part where US-25 splits into US-25W and US-25E, it's US-25W that the Carolina route followed.
NOTES:
1) I moved this potion of my comment into this reply to reduce clutter.
2) I may edit my comment in the future to be more clear.
3) A star (★) indicates a state capital.

[@ceetwyce335]

Good grief! I never knew it took that long to reach Key West from Miami! 😮

[@504RoadTrips]

@@ceetwyce335 yeah, it’s quite a haul! Without traffic, it might be a little less than 4 hours. But I suspect there’s frequent congestion in some of those areas.

[@Markkos1992]

It would have been longer without the cut to Florida's Turnpike via FL 878 and FL 874.

[@504RoadTrips]

@@Markkos1992 we were trying not to run out of daylight before we got to drive around the town of Key West so we took the fastest route. I would have liked to have stayed on US-1 all the way down. But we plan to cover US-1 northbound start to finish at some point so we’ll do that then.

[@Markkos1992]

@@504RoadTrips I see a complete clinch of US 1 in Florida (though done south of I-195/FL 112/US 27 in Miami) and north of NYC as a pipe dream due to just it being so slow so I hope it works out.

[@504RoadTrips]

@@Markkos1992 We could probably pull off the southern third of it on a long weekend if we did it during the summer when the daylight hours are long. And maybe the rest over the course of a 9 day week. It's going to be a long trip.

[@historyrebel]

The scenery's a little different than most other places I've seen you go to.