Out on State Road 60, just past where the strip malls thin out and pastures take over, the highway crosses Walk in Water Road and Boy Scout Camp Road. It is the kind of place that still looks like old Florida from the driver’s seat: ranch land, orange groves, a good fishing lake, and more sky than concrete.
It feels like a road where not much changes.
But everything is changing, and a single turn lane project at that hilltop intersection says a lot about where Polk County is headed…