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In the after-effects of Blow Irma, some oceanside lodgings in the Boilerplate Keys abide bankrupt for repairs, and you may still see accumulated bits in staging areas and forth roadsides. If you accept a specific destination in mind, alarm advanced to be abiding you can be accommodated. Accomplish anxiety in advance.
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Known closures will be acclaimed in this adviser to the Overseas Highway.
Sunset over the Seven Mile Bridge.
The Overseas Artery through the Florida Keys is the ultimate alley trip: Amazing angle and things to do, places to go and places to hide, hidden harbors and blue tiki confined forth the 100-plus afar from Key Largo to Key West.
There are hundreds of places to pull over to fish, kayak or adore a cocktail at sunset. Appointment colorful coral reefs to snorkel or dive. Alpha seafood is a Florida Keys staple, offered at both roadside angle shacks and upscale eateries.
For many, the destination is Key West, at the end of the road, but you’ll find the accurate appearance of the Florida Keys afore you get there.
Our mile-marker adviser will help you ascertain new things to see and do in the Florida Keys. It’s a abundant apparatus for planning your Florida Keys active itinerary.
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127.5 — Florida Burghal – Junction with Fla. Turnpike and U.S. 1.
126.5 — Card Sound Alley (CR-905) goes east to the Card Sound Accomplished and arctic Key Largo. If you’re not in a hurry, booty the assessment alley ($1 toll). Card Sound Alley traverses a agrarian breadth that already had a baby association of Card Sound. All that’s larboard now is Alabama Jack’s, a blue alfresco restaurant and tiki bar accepted for its conch fritters and the band of motorcycles it attracts. (Don’t be afraid; it’s a ancestors aggressive abode and abundant fun.)
If you booty Card Sound Road, you’ll canyon a abstruse park, Dagny Johnson Key Largo Anchorage Botanical Accompaniment Park, afore advancing to Key Largo itself. Saved from acceptable addition condo, this esplanade preserves one of the better tracts of West Indian abutting balk anchorage in the United States. There are barbecue tables and two abbreviate hikes — a two-mile attributes aisle and a one-mile loop. If you ample out a back-country admittance anatomy at Pennekamp Accompaniment Park, you can hike an added four afar of trails.
112.5 — Monroe County Line
110.8 — KAYAK — Little Black Baptize Sound Baiter Ramp, bayside.
108.5 — Gilbert’s. Abreast the end of the “18-Mile Stretch,” aloof afore you cantankerous the new Jewfish Creek Accomplished into Key Largo, you’ll see an acceptance ramp on your adapted to Gilbert’s Resort and Marina, an Old Florida aperture to the Keys. The big allure actuality is the tiki bar, which absolutely ancestor on weekends.
108 — Jewfish Creek. Exit/enter Key Largo. Southern end of the “18-Mile Stretch.”
107.5 — Lake Surprise.
106.5 — Buzzard’s Roost, Oceanside. Outdoors and calm dining on the baptize in the Garden Cove Marina.
106.0 — Key Largo Chamber of Commerce, gulfside. Easy-to-reach blow rooms, brochures, maps and abatement coupons.
Key Largo sunset
105.6— Railroad annex and Key Largo boondocks centermost from 1910 to 1940. The annex was in the artery median. The association was bayside.
105.3 — Winn Dixie Supermarket.
104.5 — KAYAK— Florida Bay Outfitters. Baby fee to launch. The affable association actuality will accord you admonition on kayak routes and/or hire you kayaks or paddleboards.
104.9 — Cactus Jack’s.
104.5 — Rowell’s Bank Park.
104.1 — Caribbean Club, Bayside. The exoteric was acclimated in the 1948 cine Key Largo, now a accepted dive bar with Key Largo memorabilia. More: Tracking Humphrey Bogart in Key Largo.
104 — Amy Slate’s Amoray Dive Resort.
104 — Jimmy Johnson’s Big Chill, Bayside. Sports bar, tiki bar, restaurant.
104 — Key Largo Bay Marriott Bank Resort.
103.9 — Sundowners.
103.9 — Senor Frijoles. Mexican restaurant on the Bay Side.
103.8 — Marriott Key Largo.
103.5 — The 1920s Key Largo Rock Castle, End of Oceana Drive, Oceanside.
103.4 — RV King’s Kamp RV Park, Oceanside. Clandestine bivouac with abounding bank sites. Packed in winter, but OK the blow of the year. Black covering sites forth arctic fence.
103.4 — Marvin Adams Canal Accomplished (The Cut), a aqueduct that connects Atlantic to Florida Bay
102.8 — KAYAK & RV — John Pennekamp Apricot Bank Accompaniment Esplanade entrance, oceanside: A abundant abode for snorkeling and kayaking.
103.2 — Num Thai Sushi Bar Restaurant.
102.4 — The Angle Abode (and Angle Abode Encore) Restaurant. Quite accepted brace of restaurants that serve a advanced array of alpha Keys seafood. Some dishes can get a little cher but not shocking.
102 — Need a chargeless abode to stop for picnic? Abaft the Key Largo government centermost (bayside) there’s a bank esplanade with covered barbecue tables. Anchored boats come and go via baiter or kayak.
101.7 — Hobo’s Cafe. Long one of Bob’s favorites stops. Acceptable aliment at the adapted price.
101.7 — Largo Resort. Open.
101.5 — Key Largo Kampground, at the end of Sampson Road.
101.4 — Publix Supermarket, Tradewinds Plaza, Key Largo.
101.2 — Hibiscus Park, Oceanside. The was the centermost of the 1880s association of Newport.
100.6 — Tower of Pizza Key Largo.
100.5 — Key Largo Chocolates. Key Lime Pie on a stick!
100.0 — Defined Direct. Massive abundance accouterment to scuba divers, snorkelers and added baptize sports.
100.0 — Berth Del Mar Resort and Marina.
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99. 7 — The African Queen, the 100-year-old baiter from the 1951 Humphrey Bogart-Katherine Hepburn film, is anchored abutting to the Holiday Inn Oceanside. You can booty a 90-minute cruise or a two-hour banquet trip.
99.7 — Holiday Inn Key Largo.
99.6 — About-face on Laguna Drive to Skippers Dockside, one of our admired tiki confined and restaurants at 528 Caribbean Drive. Best tiki bar guide. If you’re lucky, you’ll see the African Queen beef by from the deck.
99.5 — Bayside Grille and Dusk Bar, bayside. Nice little cover bar (downstairs) and restaurant off the artery abaft Bistro Largo overlooking Florida Bay.
99.5 — Pilot Abode Berth and Restaurant, Oceanside, 13 Seagate Blvd, Key Largo. Different canteen basal bar over baptize best apparent at night.
99.4 — Mrs. Mac’s Kitchen. Roadside booth accepted with travelers. Bay side.
99.0 — Mrs. Mac’s Kitchen II. An addendum of the iconic aboriginal amid amid arctic and southbound lanes of the Overseas Highway.
98.0 — Landings of Largo, Bayside; Moose Lodge, Oceanside; Everglades Esplanade Ranger Station, Bayside. 1st Baptist Church, Oceanside; Carapace Apple (center road); Rock Anchorage Club, Bayside.
97.8 — Kona Kai Resort
97.8 — Ballyhoo’s Celebrated Seafood Grill. Dine in a celebrated conch abode congenital in the 1930s.
95 to 100 — The aboriginal association of Rock Harbor. A baby railroad annex was additionally here. The name of the column appointment was Rock Anchorage until the 1948 Humphrey Bogart-Lauren Bacall blur Key Largo aggressive residents to banknote in on that success. In 1952, the column appointment was renamed Key Largo.
97.0 — Playa Largo Resort.
95.8 — Harriette’s Diner. Accepted beanery for locals. Home cookin’.
95.2 — Florida Keys National Abyssal Sanctuary building.
94.5 — Snapper’s Restaurant. 139 Seaside Avenue. Bank restaurant with dockage. Architecture destroyed, but Snappers has a aliment bivouac on armpit that is now accessible with a bound menu. Banknote only. Appearance Snapper’s Irmageddon card here.
93.6 — Florida Keys Agrarian Bird Center, Bayside. Aberrate forth a boardwalk through a mangrove backwoods at this volunteer-run wildlife-rehab ability with an informal, backyard feel. The centermost is free, admitting you may appetite to being some dollars into the donation box. It’s accessible from aurora to sunset. You’re chargeless to aberrate afterwards anyone hassling you. It’s a abundant abode to accompany kids; a stop will alone booty 15 or 20 minutes, unless you adjudge to linger. Apprehend more.
92.6 — Burton Drive, Harry Harris Esplanade oceanside. Baby esplanade with manmade beach, barbecue tables, a barbecue apartment and a playground. Great stop for a barbecue or swim. $5 acceptance for over 16 on Saturday, Sunday and holidays. Incidentally, the aboriginal association of Planter was here. The baiter ramp, amphitheater and bank were destroyed. The anchorage done abroad with astringent abrasion that is causing sea baptize to appear beyond the road. This esplanade will abide bankrupt for months and maybe a year for aliment to be completed. — BOCC
92.1 — Winn Dixie Supermarket, Tavernier Boondocks Arcade Center.
92.0 — KAYAK — Bottle Key Launch. Accessible baiter launch, bayside. About-face adapted assimilate Jo-Jean Way.
91.9 — Old Tavernier Column office; Old Settlers Park, oceanside celebrated Tavernier Hotel, oceanside. This was the centermost of the aboriginal association of Tavernier.
91.5 — Mariner’s Hospital. Bayside.
91.0 — Tavernier Creek Bridge; admission Islamorada; Tavernier Creek Marina, Conch Republic Divers, Plantation Marina. Bayside
90.6 — Creekside Inn.
90.1 — Plantation Key Colony association entrance, Bayside. Ample Indian bank in the centermost of the subdivision.
89.0 — Jersey Boardwalk Pizza,
88.0 — Brand 88 Restaurant, bayside. Venerable eatery whose admirers accommodate above President George H.W. Bush (No. 41), who dined actuality frequently during his fishing trips to Islamorada.
88.0 — M.E.A.T. Beanery and Taproom, oceanside. Burger raves, but what’s all this hullaballoo about beer milkshakes?
87.1 — Islamorada Chamber of Commerce Red Caboose
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87.0 — KAYAK Founders Park. Public esplanade has a beach, marina, baiter ramps, baseball fields, skate esplanade and kayak rentals. Esplanade bankrupt until December 2017. The beach, however, is open.
86.7 – Rain Barrel Artisan’s Village. It’s fun to browse the arts and crafts here. And everybody has to get their account taken with the behemothic lobster out front. This anatomically actual Florida lobster is 30 anxiety aerial and 40 anxiety long. It was created by Marathon artisan Richard Blaze about three decades ago, and it has a name – Betsy.
85.5 — Snake Creek Bridge; Coast Guard Station, gulfside. Admission Windley Key.
85.3 — Hog Heaven Bar & Grill. A accepted sports bar and seafood eatery before Holiday Isle. You can’t absence the sign. The restaurant is tucked in abaft a architecture on the oceanside. A common stop for bikers and tourists.
85.3 — Windley Key Accompaniment Fossil Bank Geological Site, gulfside. Windley Key is account a stop. It’s an old quarry breadth anachronistic apricot was acquired for use in architecture Flagler’s Overseas Railroad in the aboriginal 1900s. Visitors can airing forth 8-foot-high quarry walls to see cantankerous sections of the age-old apricot and apprentice about the quarry and its operation. There are additionally some abbreviate self-guided trails through the built-in vegetation. The esplanade has barbecue tables.
84.8 — Coconut Cove Bank Resort and Marina.
84.3 — This was the centermost of the association of Quarry that thrived during the architecture of the railroad.
84.2 — Theater of the Sea, accustomed in 1946, it’s the added oldest abyssal mammal allure in the world. Its alkali baptize lagoon was originally a quarry for Flagler’s Overseas Railway. Offers alive dolphin shows, exhibits, a clandestine pond breadth and assorted means to collaborate with dolphin, sea lions or application for added charges. Dolphin esplanade encounters resumed on 10/15. General acceptance starting 11/15.
84.2 — Pelican Cove Resort. Closed. Re-opening appointed for Jan. 1, 2018.
84.2 — Postcard Inn. Already home to the iconic Holiday Isle Tiki Bar, the new tiki bar is a carapace of the old. Heavily damaged. Unlikely to reopen anytime soon.
84 — Whale Anchorage Accomplished spans a accessible canal connecting the ocean to Florida Bay. Oceanside, a continued sandbar emerges at low tide, a allurement for recreational boaters and swimmers. (Stay off the adequate ocean seagrasses southwest of the basin or face annealed fines.)
84 — KAYAK and KITEboarding. The bridge causeway is a accepted barrage for kayaks, paddleboards and kite-boarders.
83.5 —Wahoo’s Tiki Bar. Quaint bar and restaurant with second-floor angle of Whale Harbor. They’ll adapt your own bolt of the day afterwards you accompany it aground from the adjoining allotment fleet.
83.5 — Whale Anchorage Marina. Fishing allotment fleet; jet ski and paddleboard rentals.
83.5 — Whale Anchorage Seafood Buffet. This popular restaurant has been rebuilt and is already afresh confined its “World Famous” Seafood Buffet, and I’m animated to see it back. The wide alternative of seafood dishes will accomplish your accomplished swim, and the aliment was actual good. Been there alert already, and it had alone been accessible a month. All you can eat for $34.95, adults, and $17.95 for children. Click actuality for the menu.
83.5 — The Sandbar at Whale Harbor. On the rooftop of the Whale Anchorage Seafood Buffet is this ambrosial amphitheater lounge overlooking Whale Anchorage and the adopted sandbar breadth Keys boaters accumulate on weekends to antic in the bank and surf. The appearance is spectacular.
83.0 — Ziggie and Mad Dog’s. (Warning: Audio link)
82.2 — Dusk Inn Motel.
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82.1 — Islander Resort, a Guy Harvey Outpost Closed for 6 to 12 months for rebuilding afterwards above flooding.
82.1 — Key Lantern Blue Fin Inn.
82.1 — Florida Keys History & Discovery Center, a two-story architecture that tells the belief of bodies and contest in the Keys. Accessible Thursday to Sunday. Acceptable for bodies who appetite to apprentice added about the alluring history of the Keys. Not damaged, but bankrupt with no abutting reopening dates due to accident at Islander.
82 — Lorelei Restaurant and Cabana Bar. Lorelei’s bogie assurance on US 1 says: “Relax, you’re assuredly in the Keys.” A great abode to abeyance for refreshments, especially at sunset. Bayside.
82 — Cheeca Lodge and Spa. Accepted flush abode with clandestine beach. Bankrupt until at atomic January.
81.8 — The Moorings. Affluence cabins on the best beautiful, palm-dotted bank in the Keys. Bankrupt and not accepting anxiety for the butt of 2017.
81.6 — Morada Bay Bank Cafe. Bayside bank bistro and bar.
81.5 — Oceanside: Islamorada Library and park; Blow Memorial. The Blow Cairn tells the chance of the adverse 1935 hurricane. In 1937, ashes of abounding of those who died were buried actuality when the cairn was dedicated. Be abiding to see the admirable tile-mosaic map of the islands hit by the storm in advanced of the monument.
This is additionally a acceptable abode to esplanade and analyze this historic community, which is developing into the Morada Way Arts and Cultural District. Galleries, restaurants and account art walks with alive music. At the end of Bank Alley is picturesque The Moorings Village, breadth the Netflix filmed scenes for “Bloodlines.” Beachside abreast the monument, on “the Old Road,” is Cheeca Lodge.
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81.6 — Morada Way Arts District, 200 Morada Way, home of Florida Keys Brewing Company opened in 2015. Taproom adornment is bright Keysy with mosaics fabricated from bags of canteen caps from breweries worldwide. It’s the alone ability brewery in the Upper Keys. A active abode accepted with locals.
81.6 — Morada Bay Bank Cafe.
81.5 — Bass Pro Shops’ Worldwide Sportsman is the temple of abyssal fishing, outdoors gear, canoeing accessories and clothing. Fishing charters in the marina. On affectation is an Old Keys wooden fishing vessel, the affectionate Ernest Hemingway already used.
81.5 Islamorada Angle Company, a accepted seafood market, restaurant and dusk tiki bar, now allotment of Common Sportsman. The market/restaurant has its own fishing fleet, so you can be abiding to get alpha angle daily.
81.3 — Green Turtle Inn. Oceanside. Venerable eatery with a history aback to the 1940s. Accepted anchorage of alarm for “barstool sailors.”
Key Lime Pie Almost every restaurant in the Keys serves this signature desert, and all affirmation to accept the best. Aback camping, we accept Key Lime Pie Company pies, which are accessible in the arctic aliment breadth at abounding baby markets from Key Largo to Key West for about $15.
81.0 — Kon Tiki Resort.
80.4 — Midway Bistro and Coffee Bar.
80.0 — Roadside park, Bayside
79.8 — Lazy Days Restaurant, oceanside, has accomplished alpha angle and a amazing ocean appearance (best accepted during the day. )
79.8 — Bud and Mary’s Marina, oceanside at the bottom of Tea Table Relief Bridge. Drift fishing affair boats, abyssal and backcountry charters available.
79.1 — Tea Table Channel Bridge
78.0 — KAYAK. Indian Key Bridge. Lignumvitae Key Botanical Site, bayside in distance. Lignumvitae Key Baiter Admission gulfside; Indian Key Archaeological Site, San Pedro Underwater Accompaniment Esplanade and Alligator Lighthouse, oceanside at a distance.
Indian Key is Bonnie’s favorite kayak or canoe destination: Breadth abroad do you see such memorable backdrop while exploring a apparition boondocks on a abutting island? Here’s advice on a paddle cruise to Indian Key.
Another accomplished canoeing destination: Lignumvitae Key Botanical Site, on the abysm ancillary of the road.
77.9 — KAYAK — Lignumvitae Bridge
77.5 — KAYAK Robbie’s Marina, bayside. No cruise to the Keys is complete afterwards a stop to augment the tarpon at Robbie’s Marina. Rent kayaks or align tours to Lignumvitae Key or Indian Key at the marina. Fishing charters additionally available.
77.5 — The Hungry Tarpon is a blue board angle berth congenital in 1947, a acceptable abode for breakfast, cafeteria or dinner, with alfresco seating.
75.0 —KAYAK Sea Oats Beach.
73.5 — Habanos Restaurant at Caloosa Cove. Cuban-influenced menu, accidental dining with ocean angle and abstinent prices. Bounded Cuban-Americans eat actuality with acceptable reason. Try it.
73.5 — Caloosa Cove Resort and Marina. TrueValue Hardware abundance in the capital building. Bank tiki bar Safari Lounge at the resort, abaft Habanos, featuring lots of taxidermied animals. (Thus the nickname: The asleep beastly bar.) Closed. Appointed to reopen 11/30, according to their Facebook page.
73.6 — Boy Scouts Sea Base, bayside — Location of Affected 3 for WW-I veterans. Abounding asleep in the 1935 hurricane.
KAYAK and kiteboards 73.4 — Anne’s Beach, Oceanside. Anne’s bank is a lovely, sandy, free beach, so bank you can attack abundant distances. The bank is lined with mangroves, through which a boardwalk, with alternate barbecue tables, weaves. Anne’s Bank has bound parking and is actual popular. If you can get a space, it makes a nice 20 minute stop in your alley cruise to attack in the bank water.
Keep an eye on the sea activity underfoot. This is the alone abode I’ve anytime had to be accurate to abstain dispatch on an octopus — a small, nonthreatening and ambrosial creature.
On airy weekends, kite-boards are aerial from this beach.
73.0 — Channel 2 Bridge. Off bank on the bayside can be apparent the remains of eight accurate accomplished pilings congenital by the WWI veterans. Bayside, there are several parking spaces and this is a acceptable abode to esplanade and adore the appearance by walking on the old bridge, now a fishing accomplished and biking/walking trail. If there’s no parking at Anne’s Beach, you can esplanade actuality and cantankerous and airing aback to it.
71.8 — Craig Key
71.0 — Channel 5 Bridge. Considered by locals to accommodate the best accomplished fishing in the Keys.
70.0 — Fiesta Key RV Esplanade and Marina. Appropriate fallback to nearby Long Key SP, although added expensive. Baiter barrage and dockage, and nice bank cabins. RV, covering and pond pool. General store.
67.5 — KAYAK Long Key Accompaniment Park, Oceanside. It’s adamantine to acquisition a added breathtaking camping atom anywhere in the Keys. All 51 campsites are on the beach, and they are adamantine to get, so analysis generally for cancellations or book 11 months in advance. The day-use area is accepted for picnics, hiking, kayaking and fishing.
66.5 — KAYAK Continued Key bayside. Appropriate bodice on the bay side, alfresco of Continued Key Accompaniment Park. Drop your kayak over the low wall. Leeward ancillary of the island.
Zane Grey with his bolt (1922)
65.8 — Henry Flagler’s Continued Key Fishing Affected active the southwest end of Continued Key. In the aboriginal allotment of the 20th Century,this acclaimed amusement alpha was visited by Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover and charlatan Zane Grey, who spent 14 winter seasons actuality fishing and writing.
64.0 — Continued Key Bridge, the second-longest accomplished of Flagler’s railroad. The old accomplished parallels the new one and has been resurfaced so that for three miles, it provides a scenic, traffic-free bike trail, allotment of the Florida Keys Overseas Heritage Bike Trail. Additionally accepted with fishermen and walkers and joggers.
62.2 — Walker’s Island (Little Conch Key)
61.2 — Tom’s Anchorage Cut Bridge
61.1 — Hawk’s Cay Resort, Duck Key, affluence resort is oceanside. Bankrupt until added notice.
60.6 — KAYAK Tom’s Anchorage Channel Bridge. Oceanside barrage and pullover. Acceptable fishing!
59.9 — Enter/leave Burghal of Marathon
59.3 — Keys Cable and Otherside Baptize Esplanade — Cable wakeboarding. Closed.
59 — Dolphin Research Center, Bayside on Grassy Key. The focus of this not-for-profit ability is on education. Rather than choreographed shows, trainers authority advisory sessions as visitors angle on the berth about open-water tanks. Abounding means to collaborate with dolphins are accessible for an added fee.
58.0 — Grassy Key Alpha Bazaar and Grill — Shrimp and grits. Need we say more? Closed.
56 — KAYAK Curry Anchorage Accompaniment Esplanade offers swimming, a playground, barbecue tables and some of the best approved affected sites in the Keys. Day visitors can barrage kayaks from the bank and paddle coves, tunnels and trails. There’s a 1.5-mile attributes aisle for hiking, and you can bike forth the Florida Keys Overseas Heritage Trail. Bivouac is appointed solid for the abutting 11 months, and the Oct. 15, 2017 closing of the bivouac at nearby Long Key State Esplanade for bank renourishment will accomplish it added difficult to breeze up cancellations.
54 — Admission to Village of Key Colony Beach, Oceanside. Booty the Sadowski Causeway/6th Street to the end and about-face adapted on W. Ocean Drive for the Key Colony Inn, one of the best restaurants in the Keys. Prices are abstinent and the seafood alternative outstanding. Truly, a hidden gem off the baffled path. The aforementioned causeway passes addition acceptable bank seafood bar and restaurant, Sparky’s Landing, which has calm and alfresco basement and alive music.
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53.5 — KAYAK Island Baiter Ramp. Accessible baiter admission adjoining to The Island Angle Company Tiki Bar & Restaurant, which is additionally a abundant abode to eat and drink. It has the longest covered tiki bar in the Keys and is ideal ambience for watching sunsets.
53.1 — Vaca Cut Bridge, entering the business commune of Marathon abutting 8 miles.
53.0 — Marathon Lady Fishing (Head baiter with two six-hour trips daily, $45 per trip), 11711 Overseas Highway, Marathon. Oceanside.
53.0 — Florida Keys Aquarium Encounters. 11710 Overseas Highway, Marathon. Bayside. Features a apricot bank tank, bluff tank, tarpon basin and a course basin blow tank. Adults, $20; Children, $15.
52.0 — Marathon County Airport, bayside.
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51.0 — Brutus Seafood Bazaar and Eatery. Awful recommended by locals for its fresher than alpha seafood. Aback in Marathon, this is my go-to atom for Key West shrimp. 6950 Overseas Highway, Marathon
50.5 — Crane Point Architecture and Attributes Center, gulfside. Admission: Adults $12.50, accouchement 5-13 $8.50 and 4 and beneath free. Bankrupt until added notice.
50.0 — Winn-Dixie and K-Mart, 5585 Overseas Artery @ Sombrero Bank Blvd., Marathon
50.0 — KAYAK Sombrero Beach. There are few “real” accessible beaches in the Keys, and this is one of them. About-face south at the ablaze (Publix Arcade Center) and chase Sombrero Bank Alley to the end. Plenty of parking. Low-key abode to enjoy sunset. Bank is closed.
50.0 — Publix Supermarket, 5407 Overseas Artery @ Sombrero Bank Blvd.
50.0 — Skipjack Resort and Marina, 19 Sombrero Blvd..
49.5 — Cracked Conch Cafe, 4999 Overseas Hwy, Ocean side.
49.4 — Blow Bar and Grill, 4650 Overseas Highway, Bay side.
49.0 — Florida Keys Steak and Lobster House, 3660 Overseas Highway.
49.0 — Overseas Pub and Grill, 3574 Overseas Highway.
49.0 — The Stuffed Pig, 3520 Overseas Hwy, Marathon. Bob’s admired breakfast destination in Marathon. Adore flaky, aged angle filets with your eggs.
Bubblebutt, aboriginal and longest abiding citizen of the Turtle Hospital.
48.5 — The Turtle Hospital. Located in a above cabin bayside on the Overseas Highway, the Turtle Hospital supports its affairs of rescuing and rehabilitating about 100 afflicted sea turtles a year through the acceptance amount paid by visitors. A 90-minute educational bout is accustomed several times a day. Visitors accommodated the afflicted sea turtles up abutting and get to bandy some augment into their tanks.
48.3 — Faro Blanco Resort. 1996 Overseas Highway. Bayside.
48.3 — Lighthouse Grill at Faro Blanco. Bayside.
48.3 — Hyatt Abode Marathon, 1996 Overseas Highway.
48.0 — Turn-off to Chiki Tiki Bar and Grille at Burdines Waterfront, one of the best accidental restaurants and tiki confined in the Keys. To acquisition it, you about-face east on 15th Street in Marathon, wind accomplished an old bivouac esplanade and endless of lobster traps, and admission in a ample alive berth in a adequate harbor. The Chiki Tiki is admiral with an accomplished view.
47.5 — Porky’s Bayside BBQ and Captain Pip’s Berth & Hideaway, the abode to be in the 1950’s aback it was accepted at Bill Thompson’s Villas and Marina. Ernest Hemingway, Jimmy Hoffa, Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher were regulars. Reviews on Yelp! and Cruise Advisor are complimentary, with acclaim for the atmosphere and appetizing barbecue dishes. Captain Pip’s expects to reopen by 11/1, according to their Facebook Page.
47.3 — Dusk Grille and Raw Bar — On Knight’s Key with a amazing appearance of the iconic 7-Mile Bridge. Outdoor beanery at the bottom of the Seven Mile Accomplished in Marathon. A battleground confined “Keys food.” Breakfast and cafeteria airheaded are analytic prices and you can’t exhausted the dusk appearance during blessed hour.
47.0 — Seven Mile Bridge. Eastern end. Longest accomplished in the Keys.
47.0 — Old Seven Mile Bridge/Pigeon Key. Bayside. Pigeon Key visitor’s centermost is oceanside. Here’s addition road-trip must-do: You accept to get out and booty a airing or ride your bike on the Old Seven Mile Bridge. The Old Seven Mile Accomplished is closed.
44.8 — Pigeon Key. Bayside. To ability the arresting and celebrated island in the boilerplate of the Old Seven Mile Bridge, you charge admission by baiter on a tour. One of our admired stops in the Keys.
43.9 — Moser Channel, apogee of Seven-Mile Bridge. Sombrero Ablaze can be apparent oceanside
41.7 — End of aboriginal animate bandage railroad accomplished and activate accurate accomplished bridge
40.0 — West end of the Seven Mile Bridge
The Lower Keys were hardest hit by Blow Irma, so it may booty awhile for things to acknowledgment to normal. If you accept questions, acquaintance the alone destinations for updates.
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39.9 — KAYAK Veterans Memorial Park. This small, chargeless oceanside esplanade aloof south of the Seven Mile Accomplished is a abundant abode to stop for a barbecue or to use the restroom. Picnic tables are beneath chickee huts, there’s a bank breadth you can attack or bathe and approach copse angular like they are cat-and-mouse to be captured in a postcard. It’s additionally an accessible kayak launch. If it’s crowded, there’s additionally a ample parking breadth and a baby baiter admission bayside.
39.5 — Missouri-Little Duck Channel Bridge
39.0 — Ohio-Missouri Channel Bridge
38.8 — Sunshine Key RV Resort and Marina. Sunshine Key is a 75-acre full-service bivouac with pond pool, marina, grocery, restaurant, laundry and playgrounds. Reservations via ReserveAmerica. Bankrupt while cleanup continues.
38.7 — Ohio- Bahia Honda Channel Bridge
Calusa Bank at Bahia Honda Accompaniment Esplanade in the Florida Keys.
36.8 — KAYAK Bahia Honda Accompaniment Esplanade entrance, oceanside. In my view, Bahia Honda is the best of the accompaniment parks in the Keys. It offers a abundant bank and snorkeling, acceptable kayaking and the old camelback accomplished is an alarming afterimage up close. On top of that, there are campsites and several well-equipped, cabins. Campsites and cabins book well in advance, so plan advanced and watch for cancellations. Open!
36.0 — Bahia Honda Accomplished (4-lanes); you can appearance the old railroad camelback accomplished on the oceanside.
35.0 — KAYAK Bahia Honda Accomplished launch. At the west end (towards Key West), acceptance to both ocean and bay.
34.5 — Girl Scout Camp, oceanside.
34.1 — Affected Sawyer, Boy Scouts, oceanside.
34.0 — West Summerland Key
33.7 — KAYAK Spanish Anchorage Accomplished Baiter Ramp. (East end of bridge, Marathon side.) Paddle to No Name Key and a array of added islands off Big Pine.
WARNING! — You are entering Big Pine Key, and the acceleration absolute is strictly enforced. Big Pine is home to the endangered Florida Key Deer, and no benevolence is apparent for speeders. It’s 45 mph in daylight, 35 mph at night, for 3.5 miles. Drive inland, and the acceleration absolute is 30 mph.
33.8 — KAYAK — Baiter admission alongside highway.
33.0 — Big Pine Key Fishing Lodge and RV Bivouac — This private 10-acre bivouac has 94 RV sites with abounding hookups, some waterfront, and a rustic affected breadth with 58 sites, covering and RV. Also, cabin apartment and a full-service marina, with a baiter ramp. Lots of hiking, biking and canoeing opportunities nearby. A cool, adumbral attributes aisle apprehension aback into the Key Deer Wildlife Refuge from the campground. Reviews on TripAdvisor.com. Closed. Reopening accepted on Nov. 20.
32.8 — KAYAK Long Beach. Adjoining to Big Pine Key Fishing Lodge, booty Continued Bank Alley about a half-mile. About-face larboard assimilate clay alley to Continued Beach. There are three barrage points.
31.0 — Lower Keys Chamber of Commerce, Old F.E.C. railway marker, oceanside
Key Deer approaches bicyclist on No Name Key.
30.2 — Big Pine Key cartage ablaze is the aperture to the island and the National Key Deer Wildlife Refuge. There’s a lot to see on this actual advanced island, all of it accessed from this stoplight, so anticipate about a ancillary trip. Visitor Centermost is accessible Tues, Wed, Thurs and Saturday.
For starters, it’s the alone abode in the apple breadth you’ll acquisition the endangered Key deer. (Here’s how we saw dozen of Key deer on a contempo trip.)
One of the best bright spots for a lunch, banquet or alcohol is No Name Pub, a abbreviate drive on Key Deer Blvd. (then Watson Blvd.) through a residential adjacency that is abundant with the tiny deer, abnormally abreast sunset. Open
KAYAK On Watson Blvd. is the Old Board Accomplished Cabins, charming, celebrated cabins that accomplish a abundant abject for kayaking about No Name Key and examination Key deer. Kayak rentals available. Low fee to barrage your own kayak. Bankrupt until added notice.
KAYAK No Name Key — Besides Old Board Bridge, there are two added barrage sites, aloof beyond the bridge, or accumulate activity to the end of the alley for 1.8 afar for addition accessible barrage site. Bankrupt until added notice.
30.2 — Big Pine Arcade Centermost is aloof arctic of the cartage light on Key Deer Blvd., but don’t blink. It’s hidden behind abutting vegatation. Winn-Dixie Supermarket, novelty shops and restaurants, including one of our favorites, locally accepted PizzaWorks. The arcade centermost is additionally home to the Key Deer Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center.
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30.0 — Bucktooth Rooster Restaurant, Bayside. New restaurant on Big Pine that is accepting acceptable reviews on TripAdvisor and Yelp! Open.
29.3 — Arctic Pine Channel Bridge
28.1 — Little Torch Key. Parmers Resort is awful rated on TripAdvisor and account blockage out if you appetite save a little money over apartment in Key West. The resort is off U.S. 1 on Barry Avenue. (Turn adapted anon afterwards arch the Arctic Pine Channel Bridge.) Well-maintained cabins and cabin apartment on the water. Open.
28.1 — Kiki’s Sandbar Bar and Grille, 183 Barry Ave, Little Torch Key, aloof before Parmer’s Resort. Downstair amphitheater bar with entertainment. Admiral dining. Aliment is average, but the bench alfresco bar is outstanding. Overlooks the North Pine Channel with docks for boats. Open.
28.0 — Torch Channel Bridge
27.8 — KAYAK Middle Torch Key Causeway. Go arctic off U.S. 1 for several afar to Big Torch Key sign. About-face left. Barrage from added and third culverts forth this road.
27.8 — Bike Trail — A natural breadth with a bike aisle that’s 15.5 afar annular cruise from U.S. 1 on Boilerplate Torch Road.
27.7 — Torch-Ramrod Channel Bridge
27.6 — Ramrod Key, Called for a ship, the Ramrod, ashore on a bank south of actuality in the aboriginal nineteenth century.
27.3 — Looe Key Bank Resort, Dive Centermost and Tiki Bar. Tiki bar is accepted with locals. Dive boat, paddleboards, kayaks and baiter rentals. Ramrod Key. Open
26.6 — South Pine Channel Bridge, east end of bridge, oceanside
27.5 — Boondocks Grille and Drafthouse. Hot atom with largest tiki bar in the Keys, featuring ball in season. Performers generally add this breadth to their Key West bookings. Open
26.0 — Niles Channel Bridge, middle.
24.9 — KAYAK. Summerland Key. Booty Horace Street (bayside) to Northside Drive (2nd right) and about-face larboard on Niles Road. Go to the end of Niles Alley (about 1.5 miles). Barrage is on the larboard breadth the alley ends.
24.0 — Summerland Key Sea Base
23.5 — Kemp Channel Bridge, east end of bridge, oceanside
22.5 — Square Grouper. You’d never apperceive it from the barn outside, but this is a chic collective confined gourmet dishes, called afterwards a amphibian bond of marijuana. Open.
22.3 — Fanci Seafood. Accomplished seafood bazaar on Cudjoe Key. Recommended by bounded fishermen for accepting alpha bolt daily. Best bootleg backtalk cakes I’ve anytime tasted, lots of meat, although a little pricey at $5.99 each.(May 2017) The yellowtail filets and Key West blush shrimp were fresh, fresh, alpha and competitively priced. (Not a restaurant.) Open.
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22.2 — KAYAK. Spoonbill Sound Hammocks. Barrage is on abysm ancillary (Cudjoe Key). Analysis out the adjoining alkali ponds for photo ops.
21.0 — KAYAK. Cudjoe Gardens Marina, breadth you can hire kayaks and/or accompany guided kayak tours.
21.0 — KAYAK. Follow Airship Alley all the way to the end on the Abysm ancillary (north ancillary of U.S. 1). There is a barrage admission you can use for accessible acceptance to backcountry islands, such as Tarpon Belly Key, already home to a shrimp farm. (Blimp Alley is called for “Fat Albert,” the Air Force surveillance airship that was taken bottomward in 2013.)
20.2 — Bow Channel Accomplished to Sugarloaf Key.
20.0 — Sugarloaf Key/Key West RV Resort, KOA. Modern, well-maintained RV resort with pond area, abatement and abounding amenities. Bankrupt until October 2018.
20.0 — Mangrove Mama’s. Popular roadside eatery on Bayside. Cracked conch and conch chowder, forth with advantageous confined of Keys atmosphere. Open.
19.5 — Bike Trail. Paved bike aisle follows Crange Boulevard (Bayside) all the way to the bay.
19.0 — KAYAK. Sugarloaf Sound. Oceanside, abreast chicken cartage barrier, there’s a abbreviate aisle to the barrage site.
18.6 — Upper Sugarloaf Key
18.8 — Esplanade Channel Bridge
17.8 — Arctic Harris Channel Bridge
17.7 — Sugarloaf Lodge and Tiki Bar — Laid back, this annular amphitheater bar is black by a palm-frond umbrella and overlooks a agreeable bank and bay. Open
17.6 — Harris Gap Channel Bridge
17.5 — Lower Sugarloaf Key
17.0 – KAYAK. Blinking light, Booty Sugarloaf Blvd (oceanside) about two afar to stop sign, again addition two afar to Sugarloaf Creek bridge. Esplanade on west ancillary of bridge.
There is additionally a barrage admission at the Sugarloaf Berth (Bayside), breadth you can hire kayaks and acquirement accessories. Nominal fee to barrage if you accompany your own boats. Guided tours of Sugarloaf waterways offered.
17.0 — Bike Aisle — Bike aisle is on Sugarloaf Alley in a residential area. Annular cruise from Sugarloaf Lodge is 15 miles.
The Bat Tower
17.0 — Bat Tower. Fascinating relic of the aboriginal 20th Aeon is a attestation to aboriginal mosquito control, but it didn’t work. Blown over by Irma.
16.0 — KAYAK. Harris Channel Bridge. Acceptable acceptance off U.S. 1 to both bay and oceanside.
15.8 — Lower Sugarloaf Channel Bridge
15.0 — Baby’s Coffee. Blue Keys atmosphere; beans broiled alpha daily; ability beers and wine too. Baby’s is a acceptable abode to esplanade and bike the Florida Keys Overseas Heritage Aisle to Key West and back. Retail aperture bankrupt but aircraft bound roasts. Go to their web armpit for added information.
Bayside aboideau goes to an old U.S. Army transmitter site. Now Radio Marti. Bay Point Park. Bay Point Esplanade is closed.
14.6 — Saddlebunch #2 Bridge
14.5 — Bluewater Key RV Park. Open!
14.2 — KAYAK. Saddlebunch #3 Bridge. Bodice on oceanside; barrage beneath bridge.
13.1 — Saddlebunch #4 Bridge
12.8 — Saddlebunch #5 Bridge
11.4 — Bluff Channel Bridge
11.0 — KAYAK. Shark Key Baiter Ramp, oceanside.
10.5 — Seaside Park, Fire house; SR 941 AKA Old Boca Chica Road, Ocean, to Geiger Key.
10.4 — Porpoise Point entrance, gulfside
10.0 — Big Coppitt Key. Booty Boca Chica Alley south to the Geiger Key Marina, breadth you’ll acquisition a addition accepted tiki bar, fishing charters, a smokehouse and tiki bar with bank dining and a baby RV bivouac with dockside sites. Circadian bivouac ante are a bit baby ($100/night), but you are on the “back side” of Key West. Open.
9.7 — Rockland Channel Bridge
9.2 — East Rockland Key
8.5 — Tourist acceptable center
8.0 — NAS Boca Chica Overpass; Admission to Key West Naval Air Station. Oceanside. Turnoff from both admonition on US-1.
6.1 — KAYAK. Boca Chica Channel bridge. Barrage on either end of the bridge. Ample parking.
5.3 — KAYAK. Accessible Baiter Ramp. Oceanside admission amid Boca Chica and Stock Island. Heavily used.
Key West is accessible for business. Alarm advanced to assets accommodations.
5.2 — Stock Island, called for herds of livestock aforetime kept here.
5.1 (Inland) — Boyd’s Key West Campground. Turn south assimilate 3rd Street (Stock Island); go one block and about-face east assimilate Maloney. Boyd’s is a decent, apple-pie campground, and it’s scenic. There are 150 RV sites with abounding hookups, some oceanfront, and addition 53 sites for tents. You can book your anxiety online. Open.
5.1 (Inland) — Hogfish Bar and Grill. A abundant place, if you can acquisition it. On the docks abreast Boyd’s Campground, at 6810 Advanced Street, The Hogfish is one of the best amphitheater restaurants in the Keys. Their specialty — the world-famous “Killer” Hogfish Sandwich, breakable white hogfish meat, smothered in onions, swiss cheese and mushrooms accumulated aerial on a Cuban hoagie. Yum. Open.
4.8 (Cross Street) — Leo’s Campground. Cute little bivouac boasts the everyman prices in the Keys ($58 RV, May 2017). We had no agitation booking a armpit for our RV. Bank covering sites ($49). Actual acceptable Wi-Fi, bathhouse and laundry. Go south on Cantankerous Street from U.S. 1, one block, about-face left. Open. Alarm ahead. (305) 296-5260
4.5 — North on College Avenue for the Key West Abutting Backwoods and Botanical Garden, a agreeable atom for bulb lovers. Reopening Dec. 2. You’ll additionally acquisition the Key West Golf Club, advised by Rees Jones and Florida Keys Community College. Open.
4.6 — Blow Aperture Restaurant and Marina, south ancillary of U.S. 1, beyond from College Ave. Open.
4.1 — Cow Key Channel Bridge
3.9 — Key West cartage light. Four-lane splits at the light. Larboard to the Key West Airport and Higgs Beach, and adapted to Old Boondocks and Key West proper.
2.3 — Alkali Run Bridge, N. Roosevelt, Key West
1.9 — Publix Supermarket, Searstown Arcade Center, 3316 N Roosevelt Blvd,Key West.
1.7 — Publix Supermarket, Key Plaza, Key West. (Yes, these Publix are that abutting to anniversary other).
1.7 — Approach Ave; U.S.C.G. Group; Naval Air Station, Trumbo Point. There is a bivouac actuality for aggressive families, the Sigsbee RV Park, but sites with hookups are adamantine to get. Still, there’s an overflow breadth breadth you can dry berth to delay for a site.
1.5 — Winn Dixie Supermarket, 2778 N Roosevelt Blvd.
1.5 — K-Mart, 2928 N Roosevelt Blvd
Aerial appearance of Smathers Bank in Key West, Fla. Photo by Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau
0.0 — Key West. Mile Brand “0” is the end of the road, but not the end of your adventure. It’s aloof the beginning.
KAYAK and KITEboard. Smather’s Beach. As you admission Key West, buck larboard appear Smather’s Beach. Aloof accomplished MM 1, on your left, is the barrage breadth forth a palm-lined shore. My nephew Nick says it’s additionally popular for kite-boarding.
KAYAK. Simonton Street. At the west end of Simonton, amid the Pier Abode and Hyatt, is a baby burghal bank breadth you can launch. (Pay to park).
From our campaign in Key West, we’ve put calm this adviser of chargeless things to do in Key West, including a abundant chargeless walking tour. The tourists army to Duval Street, but the best agreeable way to see Key West is on a bicycle. Be abiding to stop by the Celebrated Key West Seaport and appointment Fort Zachary Taylor Celebrated Accompaniment Park. The Celebrated Key West Cemetery is abounding of alluring belief and scenes.
Other admired stops about which we’ve written: Key West Butterfly Conservatory and the Audubon House.
Throughout your visit, you will see chickens everywhere, adrift the streets as if they endemic them. Key West chickens: Noisy, colorful, aloof like Key West
Blue Heaven
A Chicago foodie aggregate with Florida Rambler his admired spots for accurate Key West acidity — from accessible air conch-fritter confined to the best blessed hour in town. Print it out: Eight Key West restaurants for bounded flavor.
We additionally acclaim the classy La Te Da, the awful rated (but overpriced) Louie’s Backyard and the rustic, analytic priced Half Carapace Raw Bar.
There are dozens of B&B’s and different lodgings through the city, including a few of my favorites: The elegant Heron House, Key Lime Inn. Key West Bed and Breakfast, and the historic Eden House. (For a bargain, book one of the four second-floor apartment that allotment two bathrooms.)
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Required stops on the alehouse bout — this is, afterwards all, Key West — are Sloppy Joe’s, Captain Tony’s (the aboriginal Sloppy Joe’s), the Bull and Whistle, the raucus honky tonk alehouse Cowboy Bill’s, and ultra-funky Blue Heaven, a celebrated Bahamian Village watering aperture breadth Ernest Hemingway officiated battle matches in the 1930s.
Sunset anniversary at Mallory Square
And no appointment to Key West is complete afterwards a appointment to battleground Mallory Square at sunset.
Just in case you anticipate Key West is at the end of the world, you can accumulate activity westward to get way abroad to Fort Jefferson and the Dry Tortugas. Plan ahead, and affected there.
Lagerheads Bank Bar on a baby and little-known pocket bank at the end of Simonton Street, on the added ancillary of the Pier Abode from Mallory Square. This air-conditioned bank is disregarded by best tourists. Beer, burgers and bank aliment served.
FloridaRambler.com’s adviser to the best beaches in the Florida Keys
How did those places get those names? Look it up in this admirable resource, the Florida Keys Gazettee, which explains the history abaft the bright names of Keys places.
Some of the the kayak barrage ramps listed were gleaned from Bill Keogh’s Florida Keys Canoeing Guide: From Key Largo to Key West. Bill is the freeholder Big Pine Kayak Adventures at the No Name Key accomplished on Big Pine.
Many acknowledgment to Judy Rowley and Paul Koisch of PizzaWorks in Big Pine and Judy’s son, allotment captain Kevin Rowley, for demography us on a claimed bout on and off the baffled paths of the Lower Keys and Key West.
The aboriginal mile-marker adviser acclimated as a abject to body our adviser was created by Jerry Wilkinson for the Historical Preservation Society of the Upper Keys at keyshistory.org.
Last but absolutely not least, kudos to our ancestors associates who are generally saddled with the clipboard, identifying abeyant listings, and to our accompany and abounding readers who contributed to this report. Accumulate those tips coming! 🙂
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