State Road 976 begins on Bird Road at the Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike in Tamiami, heading east through Westchester to its north and Westwood Lakes to its south as a primarily commercial six lane divided highway.

It crosses State Road 985 before leaving Westwood Lakes and bordering Olympia Heights.

At the northeastern edge of Tropical Park, SR 976 interchanges with the Palmetto and Don Shula Expressways.

East of SR 953 and Coral Gables Senior High School, it resumes commercial businesses, and has intersections with Ponce De Leon Boulevard, where the median disappears, and quickly heads towards its eastern terminus of US 1.

and Molly Piercy Bird, who had homesteaded 160 acres that includes the current Biltmore Golf Course.