Veterans Ford Live Cam
9 miles from Memorial Highway to north of Hutchison Road
Historic Roots and Visionary Planning
The Veterans Expressway, stretching over 20 miles through Hillsborough County, embodies decades of transportation planning, regional growth, and engineering ingenuity. Conceived in the late 1970s as part of a larger network of toll facilities to alleviate burgeoning traffic on U.S. Highway 19, its alignment parallels the paths of both historic cattle trails and early rail corridors. As you embark northward from downtown Tampa, the expressway’s genesis reveals itself in the carefully selected right‑of‑way, designed to minimize environmental impact while maximizing connectivity between the urban core and the rapidly developing northern suburbs.
