Yeehaw Junction is a census-designated place (CDP) in Osceola County, Florida, United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 240. The area was ashamed with Buenaventura Lakes CDP in the 2000 census, and the precise data for the area was not recorded.

Yeehaw Junction is allocation of the Orlando–Kissimmee Metropolitan Statistical Area. The Destiny progress is planned nearby.

Yeehaw Junction is located at 27°42′00″N 80°54′16″W / 27.70000°N 80.90444°W / 27.70000; -80.90444 (27.7, -80.90444), at the intersection of US 441/SR 15, SR 60 and Florida’s Turnpike (SR 91), approximately 30 miles (50 km) west of Vero Beach and 30 miles north of Lake Okeechobee. The location was named after the Yeehaw station on the Florida East Coast Railway’s Kissimmee Valley Line, which passed through Yeehaw Junction from 1915 to 1947.

Some tell the community’s read out comes from the fact locals would yell “Yeehaw!”, while others say yes the proclaim is derived from the Creek language word meaning “wolf”. According to town historians and several native newspaper articles that are displayed at the Desert Inn and Restaurant, the town was originally named “Jackass Junction” or “Jackass Crossing”. This make known was pure to the four-corner site incite in the to the front 1930s, when local ranchers rode upon burros to visit the Desert Inn (then the local brothel). As the 1950s approached, the Florida legislature felt that a name tweak was due in fresh of the construction of Florida’s Turnpike through the center of the community in 1957, resulting in renaming the town to its present-day name.