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Collins Avenue

<p><b>Collins Avenue</b>, partly co-signed <b><a href="/en/Florida_State_Road_A1A" title="Florida State Road A1A" class="wl">State Road A1A</a></b>, is a major thoroughfare in <a href="/en/South_Florida" title="South Florida" class="wl">South Florida</a>, United States. The road runs parallel to the <a href="/en/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean" class="wl">Atlantic Ocean</a> in <a href="/en/Miami_Beach,_Florida" title="Miami Beach, Florida" class="wl">Miami Beach, Florida</a>, one block west. It also runs through the cities of <a href="/en/Surfside,_Florida" title="Surfside, Florida" class="wl">Surfside</a> and <a href="/en/Sunny_Isles_Beach,_Florida" title="Sunny Isles Beach, Florida" class="wl">Sunny Isles Beach</a> to the north. Collins Avenue was named for <a href="/en/John_S._Collins" title="John S. Collins" class="wl">John S. Collins</a>, a developer who, in 1913, completed Miami’s first bridge, <a href="/en/Collins_Bridge" title="Collins Bridge" class="wl">Collins Bridge</a>, connecting Miami Beach to the mainland across <a href="/en/Biscayne_Bay" title="Biscayne Bay" class="wl">Biscayne Bay</a>.</p>

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mobile-collapse-element"><caption class="infobox-title fn org street-address">Collins Avenue</caption><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above adr"><span><a href="/en/File:Florida_A1A.svg" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" data-hash="File:Florida_A1A.svg"><img loading="lazy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Florida_A1A.svg/68px-Florida_A1A.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="751" data-file-height="601" data-file-type="drawing" height="54" width="68" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Florida_A1A.svg/102px-Florida_A1A.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Florida_A1A.svg/136px-Florida_A1A.svg.png 2x" alt="Florida_A1A.svg"></a></span></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader nickname">A1A Scenic and Historic Coastal Highway</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size"><a href="/en/File:Collins_Avenue_in_Miami_Beach,_Florida.jpg" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" data-hash="File:Collins_Avenue_in_Miami_Beach,_Florida.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Collins_Avenue_in_Miami_Beach%2C_Florida.jpg/220px-Collins_Avenue_in_Miami_Beach%2C_Florida.jpg" decoding="async" data-file-width="1651" data-file-height="1797" data-file-type="bitmap" height="239" width="220" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Collins_Avenue_in_Miami_Beach%2C_Florida.jpg/330px-Collins_Avenue_in_Miami_Beach%2C_Florida.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Collins_Avenue_in_Miami_Beach%2C_Florida.jpg/440px-Collins_Avenue_in_Miami_Beach%2C_Florida.jpg 2x" alt="Collins_Avenue_in_Miami_Beach%2C_Florida.jpg"></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">View of Collins Boulevard in <a href="/en/South_Beach" title="South Beach" class="wl">South Beach</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data category">SR</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Maintained by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/FDOT" title="FDOT" class="mw-redirect wl">FDOT</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Length</th><td class="infobox-data">13.1<span>&nbsp;</span>mi (21.1<span>&nbsp;</span>km)<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-FDOT_GIS_1-0"><a href="#cite_note-FDOT_GIS-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[1]</span></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Location</th><td class="infobox-data locality"><a href="/en/Miami-Dade_County,_Florida" title="Miami-Dade County, Florida" class="wl">Miami-Dade</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">South<span>&nbsp;</span>end</th><td class="infobox-data">South Pointe Drive in <a href="/en/Miami_Beach,_Florida" title="Miami Beach, Florida" class="wl">Miami Beach</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">North<span>&nbsp;</span>end</th><td class="infobox-data"><span><span><img loading="lazy" alt="Florida_856.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Florida_856.svg/30px-Florida_856.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="751" data-file-height="601" data-file-type="drawing" height="24" width="30" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Florida_856.svg/45px-Florida_856.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Florida_856.svg/60px-Florida_856.svg.png 2x"></span></span><span><span><img loading="lazy" alt="Florida_A1A.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Florida_A1A.svg/30px-Florida_A1A.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="751" data-file-height="601" data-file-type="drawing" height="24" width="30" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Florida_A1A.svg/45px-Florida_A1A.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Florida_A1A.svg/60px-Florida_A1A.svg.png 2x"></span></span> <a href="/en/Florida_State_Road_856" title="Florida State Road 856" class="wl">SR<span>&nbsp;</span>856</a> (<a href="/en/William_Lehman_Causeway" title="William Lehman Causeway" class="mw-redirect wl">William Lehman Causeway</a>)<span>&nbsp;</span>/ <a href="/en/Florida_State_Road_A1A" title="Florida State Road A1A" class="wl">SR<span>&nbsp;</span>A1A</a> in <a href="/en/Sunny_Isles_Beach,_Florida" title="Sunny Isles Beach, Florida" class="wl">Sunny Isles Beach</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Construction</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Inauguration</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/1945_Florida_State_Road_renumbering" title="1945 Florida State Road renumbering" class="wl">1945 renumbering</a> (<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1945%20Florida%20State%20Road%20renumbering" title="wikisource:1945 Florida State Road renumbering" class="extiw" target="_blank">definition</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table> <footer 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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. 