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Overseas Highway, Florida Keys Made up of 100 tiny islands, the Florida Keys is connected by 42 bridges and one long road: the Overseas Highway. Built in 1938, the road follows a trail originally built for a railroad that was destroyed by a hurricane three years earlier. The highway’s foundation included some of the original railway spans as well as the coral bedrock of individual keys and specially constructed columns.

In 1982, 37 bridges were replaced with wider, heavier spans, including the well-known Seven Mile Bridge at Marathon. The Florida Keys Overseas Heritage Trail was added in 2002, a paved recreational path that has interpretive trailheads designating attractions, an art bicycle rack and a limestone column sign with an Overseas Heritage Trail map. Sometimes called “The Highway That Goes To The Sea” the road is surrounded by a colourful seascape that is home to a complex habitat of birds from great white herons, roseate spoonbills to ospreys.