Rock Springs Run State Reserve
Central Florida
This 14,000-acre reserve located 30 miles north of downtown Orlando offers 17 miles of hiking trails, and primitive riverside camping accessible by canoe…
Must-see attractions in Florida
Gold Coast
Deerfield Beach is an award-winning 'Blue Wave' beach with pristine water, nine lifeguard towers and a designated surfing area north of the pier and south…
Miami
Coral Gables–designer George Merrick planned a series of elaborate entry gates to the city. Among the completed gates worth seeing is the Coral Way…
Miami
Coral Gables–designer George Merrick planned a series of elaborate entry gates to the city. The Granada Entrance is among the completed gates worth seeing.
Gold Coast
A hip gathering spot for young locals and visitors with excellent surf for swimming and life guards. Coin-operated parking meters charge $1.25 per hour.
South Beach
A small bit of green space overlooking the water, this park has a playground, benches and grassy areas with fine views. There's ample parking here too.
South Beach
The Carlyle comes with futuristic styling, triple parapets, a Jetsons vibe and some cinematic cachet: The Birdcage was filmed here.
Florida Keys
One of the few white-sand, mangrove-free beaches in the Keys. It’s a good spot to lounge on the sand or swim, and there's also a small playground.
Southwest Gulf Coast
This 1381-acre state park has 15 miles of sandy off-road tracks, lake swimming and a handy campsite ($33 per tent) midway along the Legacy Trail.
Fort Lauderdale
A giant alfresco boardwalk area with stores, restaurants and live entertainment nightly; it's also the place to catch many river cruises.
Palm Beach
South of Southern Blvd on Ocean Blvd, before the Lake Worth Bridge, this is another place to catch rays.
Gold Coast
Has 7 acres of shorefront, clean restroom facilities, volleyball courts and picnic areas.
Florida Keys
Opened in 2019, the Art Shack houses a collective of art galleries and studios.
Central Florida
With no fancy roller coasters or drenching water rides, this mom-and-pop park harkens back to Old Florida. It's small, it's silly and it's kitschy with,…
Orlando
At Discovery Cove, guests spend the day snorkeling in a fish- and ray-filled reef, floating on a lazy river through an aviary and simply relaxing in an…
Daytona Beach
Follow Main St E and you'll cross Daytona's sabal-palm-lined, ocean-fronting boardwalk, bedecked with dollar-grabbing ice-cream shops, amusement arcades,…
Tampa
The silver minarets of Henry B Plant's 1891 Tampa Bay Hotel glint majestically, testimony to the vaunting ambitions of its creator who first brought the…
Tampa
One of Florida's more surreal wildlife encounters is spotting manatees in the warm-water discharge canals of coal-fired power plants. Yet these placid…
Gulf Coast
Designed to look like an upside-down building (complete with an upside-down lawn and palm trees), this wacky interactive museum and fun center is…
Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse & Museum
Daytona Beach
Those prone to vertigo may wish to forgo the 203-spiral-step climb to the top of Florida's tallest lighthouse and enjoy the interesting historical…
Tampa
There's something intriguing for all ages at this interactive science museum. Younger kids go straight to Kids in Charge, where a wealth of hands-on…
Tampa
Downtown, the attractive Tampa Riverwalk connects most sights. Located along the Hillsborough River, this undulating green space, with playgrounds and…
Orlando
Kitsch, celebrity-filled and featuring everyone from historic and cultural figures to current film icons. It's part of the Merlin Entertainment section…
Key West
The most-photographed spot on the island, this red-and-black buoy isn’t even the southernmost point in the USA (that’s in the off-limits naval base around…
Space Coast
Eldora was a small waterfront community of around 100 citrus farmers and fishers, many of them veterans of the Civil War, who settled here between 1877…
Jackie Robinson Ballpark & Museum
Daytona Beach
'The Jack' made history when, in 1946, the Montreal Royals, Jackie Robinson's team, were in Florida to play an exhibition against their parent club, the…
Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park
Nature Coast
This state park is essentially an old-school outdoor Florida animal encounter that features Florida's wealth of headliner species: American alligators,…
Florida Panhandle
The stark and imposing 22-story Florida State Capitol's top-floor observation deck affords 360-degree views of the city. In session the capitol is a hive…
Gold Coast
Twenty-mile long Lake Worth lagoon is Palm Beach county's largest estuary and an important warm-water refuge for manatees. To reverse some of the damage…
Tampa
Architect Stanley Saitowitz's dramatically cantilevered museum building appears to float above Curtis Hixon Park overlooking the Hillsborough River…
Nature Conservancy’s Disney Wilderness Preserve
Central Florida
Hidden south of Orlando’s sprawl, this undeveloped and little-visited 11,500-acre preserve is the result of laws that required Walt Disney World® to…
Central Florida
Whirling, swinging and twisting old-time carnival rides, including four go-kart tracks and a handful of kiddie options. There's no clever theming or…
Central Florida
Plopped among the exhaust, chain motels and the treeless landscape of Hwy 192, Old Town brings on 1950s county fair Americana. It has regular live rock 'n…
Everglades National Park
You could pass a mildly entertaining afternoon walking around Homestead’s almost quaint main street, which essentially comprises a couple of blocks of…
Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts
Orlando
Dedicated to Florida writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston (1881–1960), who was born in Eatonville and is famous for her novel Their Eyes Were…
Miami
Tucked into a small gated area near the Coconut Grove Library, you’ll find the humble headstone of one Ms Eva Amelia Hewitt Munroe. Eva, who was born in…
Florida Keys
It resembles an Aztec-inspired fire lookout, but this wooden tower is actually one real-estate developer’s vision gone utterly awry. In the 1920s Richter…
Sarasota
Conceived by John Ringling in the 1920s, St Armands Circle is an upscale outdoor mall surrounded by posh residences on St Armands Key. More so even than…
St Augustine
Little kids and big kids alike will enjoy this mash-up of theme park and museum: a celebration of all things pirate. As well as genuine historical…
Treasure Coast
In 1715 a Spanish flotilla was decimated in a hurricane off the Florida coast. One of the ships, the Urca de Lima, went down (relatively) intact. Today,…
