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In Key West. The painted concrete buoy the City of Key West put up in 1983 at the corner of South and Whitehead streets marks the spot, 90 miles from Cuba.
Since September 4, 2025, while the seawall and the road there are repaired, a temporary buoy has stood at the south end of Duval Street, at 1499 Duval Street.
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 Overseas Highway, the southern end of U.S. 1, runs 113 miles from Key Largo to Key West and crosses 42 bridges.
Read the answer →Any beach on the Gulf coast faces west, so the sun goes down into the water the length of that shore.
Read the answer →Any beach on the Gulf coast faces west, so the sun goes down into the water the length of that shore.
The whole Atlantic coast, from Amelia Island down to Key Biscayne. The ones worth setting an alarm for are the undeveloped stretches, where nothing stands between the dune and the horizon.
Florida has more standing lighthouses than any other state and about a dozen let you climb them.
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