Bike touring the southern tip of Florida

Country house in the Red Lands, Florida - Photo: Still Gravity.
View from the bike trail by the Red Lands - License our images here.

50 miles trip on the bicycles around the southern tip of Florida. The route was the paved bike trail the follows Krome Avenue. Many farms and plant nurseries around. Urban civilization returns with the cities of Homestead and Florida City. 

These places are the doors to the Florida Keys, Biscayne, and Everglades National Park. Now the cities mix up, we couldn't see where one ends and the other begins. Hurricane Andrew brought destruction to both in the early 90s. Now there is a vibrant community of Hispanic immigrants here. Most work in the surrounding farms. 

Downtown of the city of Homestead, Florida - Photo: Still Gravity.
Riding through the downtown of Homestead. 

The original name of Homestead was "Homestead Country". The town grew from the Homestead Act, a law signed by Lincoln in the 1860s that made easy to get free land. The city of Homestead was officially born in 1913. 

Entrance to Biscayne and Everglades National Park by Homestead, Florida - Photo: Still Gravity.
Directions to the national parks. 

Florida City was known as Detroit in 1910 and got the actual name four years later. Here we found "the oldest southernmost tavern in the mainland USA" - Sam's Hideaway Tavern - and the end of the Florida Turnpike.

Sam's Hideaway Tavern at the end of the road after Homestead, Florida - Photo: Still Gravity.
The old tavern at the end of the road. 

We completed the tour at the last gas station in the continental US. The painful return began - but we had a nice intermezzo for ice cream on the way back.

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