FIND OLD FLORIDA IN CEDAR KEY
Old Florida is where you
can settle down long enough to sit on a porch swing, gaze out at large trees
swathed in Spanish moss, and read a book cover to cover.
Old Florida is devoid
of chain hotels, where visitors can choose from quirky cottages and small inns
that don’t charge an arm and a leg for a night’s lodging.
Cedar Key is 100% Old
Florida, quietly plotted a good two hours north of Tampa and an hour-plus
southwest of Gainesville.
Though it is one of the oldest unspoiled towns in
Florida, a high percentage of its best attractions are wheelchair-accessible.
And a wheelchair user can safely cross its narrow streets populated by light
traffic.
Safe streets, shady
sidewalks, portable ramps to traverse thresholds into shops and a super
ADA-compliant turn ramp leading up to the free public fishing pier make Cedar
Key the perfect calm, accessible oasis for my wife, a wheelchair user of
three-plus decades.
If you don’t like
seafood, Cedar Key may not be for you. The town’s best and most famous
restaurant revolves around the bounty of the sea – including the locally-harvested
clams.
You can order pizza or chicken wings at a dockside bar, but grouper,
chowders, seafood boils and the like are the dishes that soothe the soul in
Cedar Key.
STORY CONTINUES TOMORROW -- APRIL 3
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