A home for people who love it down here — deep guides, real Keys history, and local know-how from Key Largo to Key West. Built alongside the 150,000-strong Florida Keys community on Facebook.
History · 1905–1935
Henry Flagler was 75 when he decided to build a railroad across 128 miles of open ocean. Engineers said it couldn't be done. Then it ran for twenty-three years.
History · September 2, 1935
The most intense storm ever to strike the United States, the veterans' camps on Matecumbe, and the rescue train that arrived at exactly the wrong moment.
History · MM 0
The house on Whitehead Street, the pool that cost him his last penny, and the truth about those six-toed cats — including the part most people get wrong.
Trip tools · MM 106 → 0
In the Keys the mile marker is the address. What's at every one, and what nobody tells you about driving the Overseas Highway.
MM 106 → MM 0
The dive town at the top has almost nothing in common with the island at the bottom. Here's the honest difference.
Most of what makes the Keys strange and specific happened before the resorts arrived.
New guides go up weekly — fishing by season and species, diving reef by reef and wreck by wreck, and a directory of the captains, dive shops, and marinas that make the Keys the Keys.
A free weekly letter is coming. Follow the Facebook page and you'll hear first.