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The construction of the Golden Glades Interchange was prompted by a sequence of events spanning 12 years.

  • In 1950, US 441 was extended from downtown Orlando to Miami to connect with a stretch of US 41 ( SR 90 ) which sported U.S. Highway 94 road signs just a year earlier.


  • In 1957, Florida's Turnpike (then called the Sunshine State Parkway) was completed in Dade (later Miami-Dade ) County, joining SR 826 (which, at the time was Golden Glades Drive, an east-west street connecting U.S. Route 1 along Biscayne Bay to US 27 inland).


  • In 1958, construction of the north-south section of the Palmetto Bypass Expressway started. It was designed to connect with SR 826 with a 90 degree eastward curve (the western section of SR 826 was to be abandoned).



  • In 1961, construction of the Palmetto Bypass Expressway (the name was unofficially shortened in the mod 1960s , the Airport Expressway, and the segment of I-95 south of Northwest 95th Street in Dade County were completed.


Anticipating increasing traffic to and from Dade County, FDOT broke ground on May 18, 1962 for the new Golden Glades Interchange. The section of Interstate 95 from Golden Glades to SR 84 was completed in 1963; the Golden Glades Interchange and I-95 south to Northwest 95th Street opened the following year (the extreme southern end of I-95, serving downtown Miami, wasn't completed until 1969, along with the opening of SR 836 and Interstate 395 ).