The road provides the access to some housing developments and Savannas Preserve State Park.

The road crosses a small inlet on a short bridge before landing on an island featuring the Jensen Beach Causeway Park.

[4] In the late 1950s and early 1960s, SR A1A was only partially constructed along the barrier island between Stuart and Fort Pierce.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, some commercially prepared road maps incorrectly showed SR 732 extending westward on the mainland to an intersection with Federal Highway (US 1/SR 5) in West Jensen.

The original causeway consisted of a one-mile-long (1.6 km) wooden bridge with a hand-operated draw span, opened in 1924.