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The Overseas Highway, the southern end of U.S. 1, runs 113 miles from Key Largo to Key West and crosses 42 bridges.
The longest is the Seven Mile Bridge at Marathon, 6.79 miles, which opened in 1982; beside it, a 2.2-mile section of the old bridge is open for walking, running, cycling and fishing and leads to Pigeon Key, the 5-acre island where up to 400 railroad workers lived from 1908 to 1912. The road follows the line of Henry Flagler's Over-Sea Railroad from Miami to Key West, finished in 1912 and closed after the hurricane of 1935. Alongside the highway, the Florida Keys Overseas Heritage Trail has more than 90 miles of paved path for walking and cycling, on a planned 106-mile route, and uses 23 of the old railroad bridges.
Monroe County. Sandspur, Loggerhead and Calusa are the three beaches, and the sand here is real sand rather than the thin cover most of the Keys have, because of the way the current works through Bahia Honda Channel.
Open the guide →Monroe County. A nonprofit was formed in 1976 to save this land, and what it saved is a block of tropical hardwood forest that has never been cleared, sitting between the highway and the water in the busiest part of the middle Keys.
Open the guide →Monroe County. Asa Tift, a marine salvage merchant, built it out of local limestone, and Hemingway and his second wife Pauline bought it in 1931. He did a great deal of his work here.
Open the guide →Monroe County. The fort was part of the coastal defenses built after the War of 1812 and took the name of President Zachary Taylor in November 1850, a few months after he died in office.
Open the guide →By ferry, seaplane, private boat or a permitted charter: the park is about 70 miles west of Key West and no road or bridge reaches it.
Read the answer →Population 81,860. Typical home sale price $1,101,891 in the three months ending June 2026; typical condo $548,750 in May 2026. Median household income $87,738; 24.7% of residents are 65 or older. (Source: Redfin; U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, published January 2026)
Open the county guide →The Peace River, which runs south through Hardee and DeSoto counties past Zolfo Springs and Arcadia, is where Florida's fossil collectors go.
Most of them are in and around Orlando. Walt Disney World has four theme parks - Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disney's Animal Kingdom - and two water parks, Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach.
Orlando has the most. Walt Disney World has two, Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach; Universal Orlando has Volcano Bay; SeaWorld's is Aquatica Orlando; and LEGOLAND Florida in Winter Haven has a water park beside its theme park.
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