Old Florida Heritage Highway
Florida Scenic Highway 48 mi in Florida.
About the Old Florida Heritage Highway
Central to the cultural heritage of the Old Florida Heritage Highway is Florida’s Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s home at Cross Creek. There, she lived and worked from 1928 to 1953, during which time she wrote her novel, The Yearling. Her cracker-style home and farm are part of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park.
Featured sites along the corridor include Paynes Prairie State Preserve, the University of Florida’s Lake Wauburg recreation area, a forested and pastoral countryside interspersed with smaller lakes, prairies, and rural homesteads, and the historic communities of Micanopy, Rochelle, Evinston, and Cross Creek. The rural roadside environment of CR 325 and CR 346 provides refuge for the winter migration of sandhill cranes and offers bald eagle viewing areas.
The stretch along Scenic US 441 and the loop and spur roads offer many recreational opportunities, including bicycling, camping, bird watching, canoeing, hiking, and equestrian activities.
Florida Department of Transportation, Florida Scenic Highways Program's own description, in its words. Byway page on floridascenichighways.com.
Camping along the byway
- 0.6 mi offPaynes Prairie Preserve State Park · State park · 53 sites · reservable
- 2.1 mi offLongleaf Flatwoods Reserve – Longleaf Flatwoods Group Camp · City, county or regional park · 1 sites · reservable
Public campgrounds within 5 miles of the road as the crow flies, nearest the road first (this stretch is in several separate pieces); each one's page has its facts, season and weather by month.
About this page's facts
The line is the Federal Highway Administration's scenic byways layer (HEPGIS, a snapshot of 2022-06-24, a US government work), cut at the state line and simplified for the map; the length is the line's. The designation is the program's own: the national tiers from FHWA's America's Byways roster, the rest from the layer's designation field. Road conditions, closures and seasonal gates change: check the agency's own page and the state's road conditions before you go.