Collins Avenue

Collins Avenue
A1A Scenic and Historic Coastal Highway
View of Collins Boulevard in South Beach
TypeSR
Maintained byFDOT
Length13.1 mi (21.1 km)[1]
LocationMiami-Dade
South endSouth Pointe Drive in Miami Beach
North end SR 856 (William Lehman Causeway) / SR A1A in Sunny Isles Beach
Construction
Inauguration1945 renumbering (definition)

Collins Avenue, partly co-signed State Road A1A, is a major thoroughfare in South Florida, United States. The road runs parallel to the Atlantic Ocean in Miami Beach, Florida, one block west. It also runs through the cities of Surfside and Sunny Isles Beach to the north. Collins Avenue was named for John S. Collins, a developer who, in 1913, completed Miami’s first bridge, Collins Bridge, connecting Miami Beach to the mainland across Biscayne Bay.

  1. ^ Florida Department of Transportation. "FDOT GIS data". Archived from the original on August 4, 2007. Retrieved June 27, 2007.