Classic Drives - Overseas Highway 1 Miami to Key West
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The scenic 113-mile Overseas Highway, southernmost leg U.S. Highway 1, cross 42 bridges on its way from Miami southernmost point in Key West. In the Gulf of Mexico to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, a large part of the highway built on the former railway route began at the beginning twentieth century. Engineering marvel, the line was partially destroyed in the Labor Day hurricane of 1935, and then transferred to the road. It was rebuilt in 1980, including the well-known Seven Mile Bridge at Marathon.
Cesta, mostly over water, it may take less than four hours, but if you have time to mangrove and ocean views along the road, plus a beautiful sunrise and sunset, there the potential for travel to take longer. A holiday traffic jams can add per unit time.
South of Miami, the road skirts southern edge of the Everglades and hops in a chain of islands, reefs and hummocks run off-peak Florida. Passage of tropical vegetation Key Largo, with its fishing fleet and the flashy tourist trap, you get John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, an underwater national park, where you can take a glass-day boats to snorkel near coral reefs.
Florida Keys Overseas Heritage Trail, a multi-use bicycle and pedestrian areas along the old railway bridges Flagler, enables the move from coastal and Oceanside. The route has interpretive signs, maps, and benches. Grassy Key Bikeway, some trails, offers space for hiking, running, bicycling, in-line skating, tour landmarks, fishing and kayaking.
Past Plantation Key, Windley Key on, theaters sea carried seals, sharks and dolphins. After Islamorada the Middle Keys, uninhabited 280-acre Lignumvitae Key State Botanical site with its rare virgin tropical hardwood forest, is open excursions through the Robbieís Marina.
You can also use the boat trip from there to Indian Key State Historic Site, and take a walk around the remains of the old village located on the rescue ship which runs aground on the reefs. In the past, highly developed commercial center of the Middle Keys, you hop on the island of Marathon, then through the magnificent Seven Mile Bridge, one of the world's longest, with its sweeping views Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. Over Bridge, Bahia Honda State Park has a white-sand beaches.
Road travels southwest, previously isolated and less-populated keys through Big Pine Key, with its large slash pines and endangered Key deer, the Key West. The southern most U.S. cities, with its Caribbean atmosphere and distinctive atmosphere is the ideal place to kick back and relax.
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