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Floridawithall is the traveler's Destination and Getaway Guide for travel to Florida. This destination and getaway guide will help our readers find local information about travel to major destinations in Florida. Whether you are traveling with your family on a leisure holiday vacation or visiting on corporate business, our Florida destination and getaway guide will help you find a hotel and other travel advice that suits your specific needs.
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When Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon first stepped ashore in April of 1513, he called the land Florida because of the abundance of flowers he found in bloom. It was the Easter season and he was reminded of his own country's Pasqua Florida, or Feast of Flowers. Almost 500 years later, Florida is still in bloom. A full and mature bloom, yet ever growing and changing.
While Florida is known as the Sunshine State, perhaps the greatest symbolism is in the launching pads and giant rockets at Cape Canaveral which sent men soaring to the moon. The state itself has soared and shows no sign of leveling off. The climate and the land have attracted people and businesses and industry in great numbers.
The state of Florida boasts a coastline over 1,200 miles long. Counting the coastlines of its various islands and bays, Florida has nearly 8,500 miles of tidal shoreline. Most of the state's coastline is made up of rocky or sandy beaches, marshes, or saltwater swamps. Rocky coasts are also found on Jupiter Island and near Jensen Beach on the southeast coast and near Bradenton on the west coast.
To the north, Florida borders Georgia and Alabama and then juts southward, forming the Florida peninsula. The Florida Keys, a string of islands composed of coral reef that dot the waters off the state's southern coast, extend 150 miles to Key West. It is Florida's southernmost point, 90 miles from Cuba. The land in all of the state is generally low, level and flat.
Pine flatwoods predominate as the state's most prevalent tree species. The three types of pine vegetation found most frequently are longleaf, slash, and pond. In central and northern Florida, some types of oak and other hardwoods are found, while far to the south of the peninsula, mangroves, swamp forests, and marshes abound.
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Florida's Atlantic and Gulf Coast beaches, diverse attractions, and moderate temperatures continue to attract visitors in record numbers. Tourism is the state's number one industry with an estimated economic impact of more than $20 billion per year. Visitors to Florida can be categorized as 35 percent vacationers, 39 percent visiting friends or relatives, the remainder on personal or company business.
Florida's top 14 attractions captured 75 percent of all visitors to attractions in the state. Epcot Center and Walt Disney World accounted for 45 percent of the total. The Kennedy Space Center is one of the best known of Florida's attractions, and regularly scheduled bus tours provide visits to the vehicle assembly building, the space shuttle launch pad, the mission control center, and the museum, where displays of rockets, spacecraft, and other exhibits are found.
The Everglades, designated as a national park in 1847, is widely known for its abundance of birds and wildlife. Several endangered species are found here, among them the Everglade mink, crocodile, white heron, and bald eagle.
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Florida offers both citizens and tourists alike approximately 10,000 individual public recreational vehicle and tent campsites and 22,000 picnic tables. The federal government administered over 3 million acres of outdoor recreational land in Florida. The national forests contain 59 developed public recreational sites offering a variety of activities including camping, hunting, fishing, swimming, hiking, picnicking and nature study.
Florida's four state forsts, Blackwater, Cary, Pine Log, and Withlacoochee, each provide many opportunities for hunting, fishing, camping, and other activities.
Of interest to visitors and historians alike are the many designated historical sites in Florida. Among the noteworthy are the Joseph E. Lee Memorial in Jacksonville, Ringling Museum of Circus in Sarasota, and Cape Florida Lighthouse off the Miami coast.
