The Panhandle
From Left to Right A public beach at Seaside, near South Walton; At the water’s edge in Wakulla Springs State Park, Tallahassee; A Blue Angels Air Show in progress at the National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola; Family exploring the Seaboard Air Line caboose, Tallahassee Museum
A parrot at ZooWorld Zoological & Botanical Conservatory
The Panhandle stretches for some 300 miles (483 km) across the northwest corner of the state, between the Gulf of Mexico and the southern states of Alabama and Georgia. Most families head straight for the beach resorts that extend in an arc between Pensacola and Panama City, but the less-explored interior – a hilly, pine-forested landscape unusual in Florida – also offers plenty of recreation. Though the region is large, excellent highways make it easy to navigate by car: I-10 links Tallahassee and Pensacola, and Highway 98 serves the beach towns.
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