Long Weekend
3 days · ~280 miles · from St. Augustine
The nation's oldest city, the beach where speed was born, and inland to a genuine 1890s Spiritualist camp — a weekend of Old Florida faith, art and roadside wonder, all off the interstate.
This trip chains: A1A: Flagler's Coast · Old Dixie: Cassadaga to Kissimmee
Castillo de San Marcos and the Fountain of Youth first, then A1A south: Fort Matanzas by ferry, Marineland, and the canopy of the Ormond Loop — overnight where the Birthplace of Speed marker stands.
Drive the hard-packed sand at Daytona and climb Ponce Inlet light, then inland to Cassadaga: a walking tour of the Spiritualist Camp, a reading if you're brave, and the haunted Cassadaga Hotel for the night.
Sanford's brick riverfront, the Zora Neale Hurston museum in Eatonville, Tiffany glass at the Morse in Winter Park, and Lake Eola's old Orlando — end at Kissimmee's gloriously strange Monument of States.