The Martin Grade Scenic Highway

Just half an hour west of Stuart, Florida, is an amazingly beautiful road that time seems to have forgotten.  This is the Martin Highway, county road 714, but the locals simply call it: The Grade. This historic, 12-mile road is shaded by a canopy of hundred-year-old oaks and is surrounded by pastures, groves, swamps, and woods just as it was when it was carved out of the wilderness by the region's earliest settlers.  The Martin Grade Scenic Corridor is Martin Highway (County Road 714), between Allapattah Road (State Road 609) and Warfield Boulevard (State Road 710).  Centrally located between the unique and distinct communities of Stuart, Indiantown, and Okeechobee, the Martin Grade begins just ten miles west of Palm City, Florida.