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Florida Keys Overseas Heritage Trail. The Florida Keys Overseas Heritage Trail is a 106-mile (171 km) paved rail trail —a multi-use bicycle and pedestrian facility—being constructed between Key Largo and Key West in the Florida Keys. As of January 2022, 90 mi (140 km) of the trail has been constructed.
The Overseas Highway is a 113-mile (181.9 km) [ 1][ 2] highway carrying U.S. Route 1 (US 1) through the Florida Keys to Key West. Large parts of it were built on the former right-of-way of the Overseas Railroad, the Key West Extension of the Florida East Coast Railway. Completed in 1912, the Overseas Railroad was heavily damaged and partially ...
Key Largo is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Monroe County, Florida, United States, located on the island of Key Largo in the upper Florida Keys. The population was 12,447 at the 2020 census, [ 2] up from 10,433 in 2010. [ 5] The name comes from the Spanish Cayo Largo, or "long key". It is both the first island and town of ...
Grassy Key, Florida, is an island in the middle Florida Keys. [1] It is located on U.S. 1 (or the Overseas Highway ), near mile markers 57—60, below the Conch Keys. It has an area of 3.65 km², with a population of 974 as of the census 2000.
79000684 [ 1] Added to NRHP. August 13, 1979. The Overseas Railroad (also known as Florida Overseas Railroad, the Overseas Extension, and Flagler's Folly) was an extension of the Florida East Coast Railway to Key West, a city located 128 miles (206 km) beyond the end of the Florida peninsula. Work on the line started in 1905 [ 2] and it ...
Sunset, Key Largo. Key Largo ( Spanish: Cayo Largo) is an island in the upper Florida Keys archipelago and is the largest section of the keys, at 33 miles (53 km) long. It is one of the northernmost of the Florida Keys in Monroe County, and the northernmost of the keys connected by U.S. Highway 1 (the Overseas Highway ).
The current route was built along the original right of way of the Overseas Railroad, which shortened the driving distance between Florida City and Key Largo by nearly 14 miles (23 km). The United States Navy , which continues to have a large presence in Key West , sought an improved access to the mainland during World War II , which is the ...
Elliott Key is the northernmost of the true Florida Keys (those 'keys' which are ancient coral reefs lifted above the present sea level ), and the largest key north of Key Largo. [1] It is located entirely within Biscayne National Park, in Miami-Dade County, Florida, east of Homestead, Florida. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east ...