Florida Keys Scenic Highway
Florida Keys Scenic Highway is an All-American Road in Florida. Within Florida it covers roughly 100 miles. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along Florida Keys Scenic Highway with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.
US-1's Overseas Highway runs about 113 miles from the mainland to Key West, hopping across 42 bridges and the islands between them over the turquoise water of Florida Bay and the Atlantic. Its defining stretch is the Seven Mile Bridge, with open water on both horizons, paralleled by the ruins of Henry Flagler's original railroad bridge. The road ends at Key West, the southernmost point in the continental United States.
- Overseas Highway
- Seven Mile Bridge
- 42 island bridges
- turquoise water
- Key West
Designated for its scenic and recreational qualities
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Places to stop along Florida Keys Scenic Highway
John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park
The first undersea park in the U.S., with snorkel, dive, and glass-bottom boat trips to the living reef off Key Largo.
WebsiteWindley Key Fossil Reef Geological State Park
Old quarry walls where you can see fossilized coral up close; the stone was cut for Henry Flagler's railroad to Key West.
WebsiteHistory of Diving Museum
A quirky Islamorada museum with one of the world's largest collections of antique diving helmets and suits.
WebsiteLong Key State Park
Oceanside camping, a mangrove canoe trail, and snorkeling in clear shallows.
WebsiteCrane Point Hammock
Sixty-three acres of tropical hardwood hammock in Marathon with nature trails, a bird hospital, and an early-1900s Bahamian-style house.
WebsiteSeven Mile Bridge
The longest bridge on the highway. Beside it, part of the original 1912 railroad bridge is restored for walking and biking out to Pigeon Key.
Bahia Honda State Park
Some of the Keys' best natural beaches, with a lookout on a surviving span of Flagler's old railroad bridge.
WebsiteErnest Hemingway Home and Museum
The Key West house where Hemingway lived and wrote in the 1930s, still home to dozens of six-toed cats descended from his own.
WebsiteMel Fisher Maritime Museum
Gold, silver, and emeralds from the 1622 wreck of the Spanish galleon Atocha, found by treasure hunter Mel Fisher in 1985.
WebsiteFlorida Keys Eco-Discovery Center
A free center on the Keys' reefs and marine sanctuary, with a model of the Aquarius undersea research lab.
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Where to Stay along Florida Keys Scenic Highway
1 campground or RV park sits within about 5 miles of Florida Keys Scenic Highway.
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Photos of Florida Keys Scenic Highway
What is an All-American Road?
All-American Roads are the top tier of America's National Scenic Byways. To earn the title a road has to be a destination in its own right — offering features so exceptional, across several intrinsic qualities (scenic, natural, historic, cultural, archaeological or recreational), that they can't be found anywhere else.