St. Lucie River

St. Lucie River at Sewall's Point

The St. Lucie River is a 7-mile-long (11 km) estuary in St. Lucie and Martin counties in the U.S. state of Florida. Its North Fork flows south from St Lucie County into Martin County where it joins the north-flowing South Fork, which was once called the Halpatiokee River, just south of the old Roosevelt Bridge (Old Dixie Highway) in Stuart to form the main St. Lucie River. It then passes under the Florida East Coast Railway drawbridge and the new high-level Roosevelt Bridge (U.S. Route 1) and flows east with Rio on the north side and Stuart on the south until it reaches the northern end of the Sewall's Point peninsula, where it runs south under the Evans Crary Bridge to the end of Sewall's Point, where it flows into the Indian River Lagoon directly west of the St. Lucie Inlet which goes into the Atlantic Ocean.

The headwaters of the North Fork are in the farmlands of St. Lucie County near Interstate 95 at an elevation of 20 feet (6 m) above sea level.

The entire river is accessible to Lake Okeechobee by the Okeechobee Waterway.

A Club Med resort lies on the north shore of the river at Greenridge Point.

The river passes through the places of Sewall's Point, Stuart, and Port Saint Lucie.

List of crossings

This is the list of bridges crossing the river, starting with the North Fork, then going down the main river, and then jumping back to where the South Fork joins the North Fork to form the main river and going south up the South Fork.

Bridge	Route	Location	Coordinates
	CR 712 Midway Road west of Florida's Turnpike	Fort Pierce	27°22′27″N 80°27′03″W
	‎Florida's Turnpike	Fort Pierce
	Interstate 95	Fort Pierce
	Selvitz Road	Fort Pierce
	Florida East Coast Railway "K" Subdivision	Fort Pierce
	State Road 615 Hawley Road	Fort Pierce
	CR 712 Midway Road west of Sunrise Blvd.	Fort Pierce
	Prima Vista Boulevard State Road 778	Port St. Lucie-River Park
	State Road 716 Port St. Lucie Blvd.	Port St. Lucie
old Roosevelt Bridge drawbridge	State Road 707 Old Dixie Highway	Stuart
	Florida East Coast Railway Flagler Subdivision drawbridge	Stuart
new Roosevelt Bridge fixed span	U.S. Route 1/State Road 5	Stuart
Evans Crary Bridge fixed span	State Road A1A S.E. Ocean Blvd.	Sewall's Point
Palm City Bridge fixed span	State Road 714 Monterey Rd, Martin Downs Blvd.	Stuart to Palm City

See also

• Indian River Lagoon
• Port Saint Lucie, Florida

External links

• List of bridges and locks on Okeechobee Waterway from Stuart to Ft. Myers
• St. Lucie River Watershed - Florida DEP