Why this ride
A one-way ride of 75 km, Key Largo to Marathon - roughly 1 h 13 in the saddle. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Overseas Highway: Key Largo to Seven Mile Bridge
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 75 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 13
- Journey
- One way; return travel is separate
Distance and timing basis
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Scenic road chapters
Overseas Highway
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 65 km this is Overseas Highway, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 25 km
- Named road
- Overseas Highway
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Key Largo
Key Largo is the first of the Florida Keys, the one you reach after the long straight run down from Florida City, and it is also the biggest, stretching some thirty miles along the line of the old coral reef. The Overseas Highway, US 1, runs through its entire length, lined with dive shops, tackle stores, seafood shacks and motels. The town itself has about ten thousand people, and fuel, groceries and food are easy to find all along the road, which is marked by mile markers counted from Key West.
Read the complete Key Largo write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Key Largo is where the day begins. Next is Islamorada.
2. Islamorada
Islamorada is a string of low islands in the Upper Keys, and the name, Spanish for purple island, is applied to a village that spreads over several of them along the Overseas Highway. The sea is on both sides, the Atlantic to the east and the shallow, glassy water of Florida Bay to the west, and from the road you can often see both within a few hundred metres. It bills itself as the sport fishing capital of the world, and the claim is not idle, with charter boats, tackle shops and marinas lining the highway and anglers heading out before dawn for sailfish, tarpon and bonefish.
Read the complete Islamorada write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Islamorada comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Marathon.
3. Marathon
Marathon is the middle of the Florida Keys, a flat, tropical working town strung along Key Vaca and its neighbours, and the place where the Overseas Highway pauses to take a breath before the famous long bridge. About nine thousand people live here, enough for plenty of fuel, supermarkets, diners and marine shops, and most travellers stop for coffee and a pit stop before the next stretch. The sea sits on both sides of the road, turquoise on the Gulf side and a deeper blue on the Atlantic.
Read the complete Marathon write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 75 km into the recorded legs you reach Marathon. Next is Seven Mile Bridge.
Leg by leg
Key Largo to Islamorada
Key Largo → Islamorada is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Islamorada to Marathon
Islamorada → Marathon is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
More motorcycle rides nearby
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