Southern Tier Bicycle Route - 7: Defuniak Springs, Florida - St. Augustine, Florida - 425 Miles

Heading eastward across the Florida panhandle, you'll follow either US 90 or county two-lane roads. Stretches of the route between DeFuniak Springs and Tallahassee are like parks with groomed grass shoulders lined with pine forests. Tallahassee is an easy city to bicycle through, but it is urban cycling.

The St. Marks Historic Railroad State Trail goes from Tallahassee to the port of St. Marks, and your ACA map uses a 4.6 mile portion of it. The route comes to within 8 miles of Gainesville. In Palatka, traffic is heavy on US 17 crossing the St. Johns River.

Six miles west of St. Augustine traffic picks up steadily until the route ends at the intersection with US 1. St. Augustine is also a point along the Altantic Coast Route.

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