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A 1.5-mile turn around a lake and park slope, site of the famed Winter Chautauqua Assembly. Nearly fifty Victorian-era buildings, including three-story wood mansions, ring the lake. This is one scenic
... Related information:... From the guidebook Scenic Driving Florida
DeFuniak Springs,
FL
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A 31-mile paved highway through pine forest, riverine systems, and savannahs. Set in the pine forests and savannahs of the Florida panhandle, the Apalachee Savannahs Scenic Byway runs roughly parallel
... Related information:... From the guidebook National Forest Scenic Byways East & South
Sumatra,
FL
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Scenic Drives
- 31 miles
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This 23-mile coastal Panhandle drive begins at a former Native American village that later became a cotton plantation port. The drive climbs across two bridge and causeway systems over sparkling marin
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Apalachicola,
FL
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Scenic Drives
- 23 miles
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This drive, the book’s first coastal meander, covers about 15 miles of bay and gulf shore in Florida’s Panhandle. This drive begins by spanning a seafood-rich bay on which aboriginal Indians built vil
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Grayton Beach,
FL
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Scenic Drives
- 15 miles
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This drive midway down Florida’s east coast is a 15-mile route through the saltwater lagoon marsh of a federal refuge that shelters thousands of birds in winter. The drive visits towering 30-foot dune
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Titusville,
FL
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Scenic Drives
- 15 miles
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This out-of-the-way trip is a 10-mile meander through red hills in the far northwest of Florida. The drive rolls through the longleaf pine–wiregrass habitat that Florida shares with neighboring Alabam
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Holt,
FL
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- 10 miles
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This 41.5-mile drive begins just outside an 1840s island seaport where naturalist John Muir ended his noted 1,000-mile walk to the Gulf of Mexico. The drive then takes a remote back route through a na
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Cedar Key,
FL
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- 41.5 miles
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This 15-mile inland drive in north-central Florida, north of Ocala and southeast of Gainesville, visits the community of Cross Creek and the home of a Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the 1930s. The d
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Island Grove,
FL
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Scenic Drives
- 15 miles
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A 20-mile drive through rolling hills of farmland, horse pastures, and hardwood forest leading from a sinkhole you can climb into to the country retreat of High Springs, a former railroad village. Thi
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Gainesville,
FL
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Scenic Drives
- 20 miles
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This 30-mile drive on two-lane paved road explores a coastal zone that stretches from river to lake to ocean. It contains some of the last towering dunes on the northeastern Florida coast. The drive v
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Saint Augustine,
FL
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- 30 miles
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Highpoint rank by height: 50th. America's lowest highpoint is marked by a gray granite marker about 50 feet from the parking area near the Alabama-Florida border.
... Related information:... From the guidebook Highpoint Adventures: The Complete Guide to the 50 State Highpoints
Paxton,
FL
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A 52.5-mile rural drive through pinewoods to a remote coastal mud flat and marsh preserve, and to an inland river region known for saltwater and freshwater fishing, hunting, and abundant wildlife. Thi
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Steinhatchee,
FL
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Scenic Drives
- 52.5 miles
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This 20-mile drive begins at one of the largest springs in the world, continues through pine forest to nearby St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, then follows the refuge’s 7-mile wildlife drive past p
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Wakulla,
FL
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Scenic Drives
- 20 miles
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This 68-mile drive begins in Eastpoint, a coastal center for oyster and seafood processing, then proceeds inland to Fort Gadsden Historic Site, and returns to Eastpoint, taking in a few miles of shelt
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Eastpoint,
FL
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- 68 miles
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An 11-mile paved scenic Pensacola neighborhood drive skimming red bluffs in Florida’s Panhandle. Expect sweeping glimpses of a wide open 1500s-era Spanish bay, with scenic pull-overs in a historic Nor
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Pensacola,
FL
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- 11 miles
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This 48.5-mile drive in northern Florida and southwestern Georgia begins in the village of Havana, known for its antiques district, before ambling up and down the region’s red clay hills through farm
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Havana,
FL
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- 48.5 miles
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This 14-mile drive bisects a narrow finger of land, bordered on one side by the Atlantic Ocean, and on the other side by the sheltered Mosquito Lagoon marsh and islands. The drive dead-ends at an unde
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New Smyrna Beach,
FL
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- 14 miles
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This 35-mile northern Florida drive celebrates Florida’s eclectic folk culture at the Stephen Foster State Folk Culture Center, and tours a region of country roads that wind through pastures and woods
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White Springs,
FL
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Scenic Drives
- 35 miles
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This 20-mile drive, partly unpaved, in the Red Hills region near Tallahassee, meanders on roads that are old trading paths, some dating to stagecoach and mule-drawn wagon days. This drive visits an 18
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Monticello,
FL
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- 20 miles
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This 15-mile loop in northern Florida’s Osceola National Forest begins at a Civil War battle site and circles around a popular recreational lake, through forested swamps and pine-covered ridges that a
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Olustee,
FL
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- 15 miles
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This 36-mile loop drive is almost entirely within the Ocala National Forest in central Florida. The forest, the first national forest designated east of the Mississippi, is a 400,000-acre timberland r
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Volusia,
FL
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- 36 miles
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This 35-mile drive through sea islands on curving two-lane and one-lane roads meanders through tidal salt marsh to reach a national historic site, and past Atlantic Ocean dunes to a historic fishing v
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Fernandina Beach,
FL
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Scenic Drives
- 35 miles
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A 22-mile quiet back way from Ormond Beach to Flagler Beach, that travels in the dark cypress swamps and historic live oak forests of Tomoka Basin Geopark, then through Gamble Rogers Memorial State Re
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Ormond Beach,
FL
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Scenic Drives
- 22 miles
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