Southeast

Southeast Florida covers the densely populated Atlantic coast from West Palm Beach south through Miami to the Florida Keys, a stretch of barrier-island beaches, urban metro, and the wider Everglades-and-Big-Cypress wetlands extending west toward the Gulf. The terrain is flat at the coast — barrier islands, intracoastal waterway, mangrove fringe — with the Everglades’s shallow sawgrass plain dominating the inland half. Miami-Dade County holds Miami and Miami Beach; Broward holds Fort Lauderdale; Palm Beach holds West Palm Beach and Boca Raton; Martin holds Stuart; Monroe covers the Florida Keys from Key Largo south to Key West. Anchor cities include Miami, Miami Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, West Palm Beach, Boca Raton, Stuart, Key Largo, Marathon, and Key West. Everglades National Park, Biscayne National Park, Big Cypress National Preserve, and Dry Tortugas National Park concentrate the public-land scenery. Most trips split among three threads. Miami runs urban and beach — South Beach, Wynwood Walls, Little Havana, Vizcaya. Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton handle resort-and-yachting itineraries. The Keys run a different rhythm entirely — the Overseas Highway, snorkeling on the only barrier reef in the continental U.S., and Hemingway’s house in Key West.