The route begins near West Palm Beach, alongside the Intracoastal Waterway, from where it moves inland through Lake Clarke Shores, a small municipality surrounded by lakes and canals that retains a strong suburban character. From here, the route enters the so-called Lake Worth Corridor, an urban axis where commercial zones, middle-class residential areas, and large public parks linked to interior lakes and former drainage systems coexist.
Farther south appears Atlantis, a tiny city almost entirely integrated into a golf club, characterized by low density, high income levels, and a predominantly retired population. The route continues through unincorporated communities and gated developments dominated by golf courses, residential complexes, and carefully designed landscapes, until reaching Golf, one of the smallest and wealthiest municipalities in the country.
The final stretch leads toward the area where the Yamato Colony was established, a Japanese agricultural settlement founded in the early twentieth century near Boca Raton. Although the settlement disappeared decades ago, its legacy remains in local place names and in cultural spaces such as the Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens, which preserve the memory of that community experience. The route then returns along an alternate alignment, closing a journey that links migratory history, modern urbanization, restored natural spaces, and residential landscapes characteristic of southern Florida.
The complete route, together with its detailed historical context, is part of Discovering Florida – Volume 3.
