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Florida Keys - Attractions

Traveling to the Florida Keys is an unforgettable experience to enjoy either alone, with your partner, family, friends or colleagues. Throughout Key Largo, Islamorada, Marathon, Big Pine Key, Key West, and their adjacent small islands, there are a number of Florida Keys attractions for any budget and taste. When it comes to nature encounters, the Florida Keys are depicted as paradise on earth. However, for those who love fun and life celebrations, paradise is also the closest adjective applicable to any of these Florida Keys attractions.

Some attractions are common to all the Keys, even though the main recreational facility is located on one of the islands. As an example, the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary is headquartered in Key West, but has an Upper Regional Office at Key Largo, a Middle Regional Office in Marathon, and another Lower Regional Office located in Key West. Ask your travel agent for budget tours to the Florida Keys if you are short of money or time but you still want to see lots of Florida Keys attractions. There are many things to do across the Upper, Middle and Lower Keys that may not be in your budget, however, if you schedule your time accordingly you will be able to enjoy many of the major attractions within any budget.

This Florida Keys Attraction is in Key West

UPPER KEYS ATTRACTIONS

KEY LARGO

Located in the northernmost part of the Florida Keys archipelago, Key Largo is the largest of all of them, which is 33 miles long, connected to Florida City by U.S. Route 1, and one of the Keys that feature numerous recreational opportunities. Contiguous to the Everglades National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and adjacent to John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, a site registered as one of the National Register of Historic Places in the United States, Key Largo's attraction includes nature, history, and entertainment. John Pennekamp Underwater Park is in fact, the main attraction on Key Largo, comprising about 70 nautical square miles of marine life in the Atlantic Ocean, just off Mile Marker 102.5. Key Largo is famous for the movie of the same name filmed in 1948 and featuring a boat called the African Queen. Today, visitors can find this boat anchored at Key Largo Harbor Marina, Mile Marker 99.7, next to the Holiday Inn. Anther famous boat, which calls Key Largo home, is the Thayer IV, from the Theatre Production "On Golden Pond"

Other Attractions in Key Largo:

• Caribbean Shipwreck Museum & Research Institute, Mile Marker 102.6
• Dolphins Plus, Mile Marker 99.5
• Everglades Safaris, Mile Marker 102
• Harry Harris Park, Mile Marker 92.5
• Key Largo Undersea Park, Mile Marker 103
• Rain Barrel, Mile Marker 86.7

ISLAMORADA

Islamorada is an island where fishing is a worldwide renowned activity. Sportfishing competes with commercial fishing are both high in popularity, both aid in the island's economy. Therefore, it is not strange that most of Islamorada's attractions are related to water and fishing activities, excelling San Pedro Underwater Archaeological Preserve State Park among all them. Flocks of seagulls, warm breezes and sunken treasures await visitors about 1.25 nautical miles south from Indian Key, one of the small islands that conforms Islamorada. Indian Key Historical Site and Lignumvitae Botanical Site, Mile Marker 78.5 are two other attractions nearby. Theater of the Sea, situated at Mile Marker 84.5 is an entertaining and educational marine animal park with natural salt-water lagoons inhabited by marine flora and fauna and provides dolphin encounters among other activities.

Other Attractions in Islamorada:

• Long Key State Park, Mile Marker 67.5
• Treasure Village, Mile Marker 86

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MIDDLE KEYS ATTRACTIONS

MARATHON

The heart of the Florida Keys was also the heart of ephemeral piracy and wrecking centuries ago. Lack of freshwater in this region made pirates desist lurking here and it was not until the 20th century when Marathon’s only attraction consisted of the village where the railroad workers lived in Pigeon Key. Today, Marathon offers historic sites, nature refuges and crystal clear beaches, which along with the annual Seven Mile Bridge run and other events throughout the year are the main attractions here as far as Florida Keys attractions go.

Attractions in Marathon:

• Crane Point Hammock, Mile Marker 50
• Key Colony Beach Golf Course, Mile Marker 53.5
• Museum of Natural History and Children's Museum, Mile Marker 50
• Old Seven Mile Bridge, Mile Marker 47
• Sombrero Beach and Sombrero Country Club, Mile Marker 50

There are two close attractions, which are part of the Middle Keys. The Dolphin Research Center in Mile Marker 59, and the Pigeon Key situated 2.2 miles west of Marathon, a place listed on the National Register of Historic Places in America, home of the railroad workers, and the old Seven Mile Bridge, substituted by the actual one that visitors see.

LOWER KEYS ATTRACTIONS

BIG PINE KEY

Among the Florida Keys, this is the preferred stop for nature lovers and environmentalists. Most of the attractions in this area are connected with wildlife, flora, and fauna, which is rescued and protected in this place. The National Key Deer Refuge is the main and large attraction in Big Pine Key, including the Watson Hammock nature trail and a complex of other refuges belonging to the Lower Key.

Located at Mile Marker 35, the National Key Deer Refuge protects the endangered deer of the region, however, deer species can be seen almost anywhere in the region.

Other Nature Attractions in Big Pine Key:

• Blue Hole Nature Trail, Mile Marker 30.5
• Coupon Bight State Aquatics Preserve, Mile Marker 28.5 - 31.5
• Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge, Mile Marker 28.5 - 31.5
• Looe Key National Marine Sanctuary, Mile Marker 28.5-31.5

Big Pine Key also has two remarkable attractions nearby. The north Bahia Honda State Park, situated at Mile Marker 37 and the Bat Tower at Mile Marker 17 located in the south, off the island.

KEY WEST

Ernest Hemingway chose Key West to live in for not only the island's privileged location and closeness to Cuba, his other preferred destination, but also because this Key is truly a paradise. If a picture is worth thousand a words, a list of just a FEW of the Florida Keys attractions in this town will let you see that Hemingway was right.

Some of the Key West attractions:

• Audubon House and Garden Tours
• Bahama Village
• Conch Tour Train
• Curry Mansion
• Customs House
• Donkey Milk House Museum
• East Martello Museum and Art Gallery
• Ernest Hemingway Home
• Fort Jefferson and Dry Tortugas
• Fort Zachary Taylor
• Heritage House Museum
• Higgs Beach Astro-Park
• Key West Aquarium
• Key West Charter Boat Row
• Key West Cigar Factory
• Key West City Cemetery
• Key West Golf Resort
• Key West Shipwreck Historeum and Museum
• Lighthouse and Military Museum
• Little White House
• Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society Museum
• Old Town Trolley
• Red Barn Theater
• Ripley's Believe It or Not! Odditorium
• Smathers Beach
• Sunset Celebration at Mallory Docks
• Tennessee Williams Fine Arts Center
• Waterfront Playhouse
• Wrecker's Museum

Key West features another attraction that costs nothing and it is available from any point of the island: sunsets. In addition, after the sun melts down in the horizon, the night becomes a living street party and real every day carnival at Mallory Square, La Concha, Hilton, and the Schooner Wharf.

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