FLORIDA BACKROADS TRAVEL
BY Mike Miller Updated September 24, 2026
Florida Back Roads Travel helps you find the towns, day trips, backroad drives, local eats, historic places, and small surprises that most travelers miss when they stick to the interstates.
Florida has grown fast, but there are still places where the old character is alive. These are the roads and stories this site exists to share.
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- A town worth a detour
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Florida Backroads Travel has two meanings
1. Physical journeys: towns, parks, dining, lodging, off the interstates
2. Memory and nostalgia: the Florida of earlier decades
Mike Miller has lived in Florida since 1960, worked as a civil engineer across the state, driven more than 2 million Florida back-road miles, and written 25 books from this website. Thousands already get the free morning email.
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings lived for many years in Cross Creek and wrote about the local people and their culture. -
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Florida State Parks: Preserving Natural Florida
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Fort Myers, Florida: Home of Edison, Ford and Firestone
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Fort Myers, a major city in Southwest Florida, is on the Caloosahatchee River. History and the Gulf of Mexico are close at hand.
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Florida Back Roads Travel is not affiliated with or endorsed by Backroads, a California-based tour operator which arranges and conducts travel programs throughout the world.
