Sight · Overseas Highway
Ride a movie-famous launch through Key Largo's canals.
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Overseas Highway Tour Guide
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Overseas Highway. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
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The African Queen: A Movie Boat You Can Ride“You're approaching the boarding area for the African Queen in Key Largo.”
Plays as you drive up to The African Queen in the Parkwolf Overseas Highway Tour Guide.
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The African Queen is a small, open-deck launch made famous by the 1951 film with Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. Today it runs a roughly 1.5-hour sightseeing cruise from Key Largo, through the Port Largo canals to the Atlantic and back. The boat's history is the reason to go; if you want a long open-water sightseeing run, this is a more specialized, close-up trip.
Board at Marina Del Mar in the Holiday Inn complex at mile marker 100 on Overseas Highway. The boat passes through residential canals, reaches the ocean, then turns back; Allow about 90 minutes aboard. Ask the captain about taking a turn at the helm. Confirm where passengers should park before you arrive.
Built in Lytham, England, in 1912, the vessel was first named S/L Livingstone and worked for the East Africa British Railways Company. It carried cargo and ferried missionaries and hunting parties across the Victoria Nile and Lake Albert. It stayed in African service until 1968.
John Huston's 1951 film made this launch famous. The movie was shot in several places: Uganda and Congo supplied African locations, while studio and water-tank scenes were filmed in London. After years in the United States, the boat was found in an Ocala pasture and brought to Key Largo in 1982.
Wildlife
18 sightingsCrocodileMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
255 sightingsAlligatorMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
55 sightingsManateeMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
70 sightingsCommon Bottlenose DolphinMost seen around 9 AMSighting map
51 sightingsBald EagleMost seen around 8 AMSighting map
1,120 sightingsKey DeerMost seen around 6 PMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Overseas Highway. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
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EasyGrove Trail0.6 mi · 20 min · 2.9 mi awayA short hammock walk to a historic fruit grove.
Restaurant · 0.5 mi awayMrs. Mac’s Kitchen (Original)All-day breakfast and Key lime pie in a quirky Keys diner.
Visitor center · 1.4 mi awayREEF Ocean Exploration CenterA dry-land hunt for more than 100 reef fish.
Campground · 1.8 mi awayKey Largo Kampground & MarinaA waterfront camp with marina access and mangrove routes nearby.
Campground · 2.6 mi awayJohn Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park CampgroundA full-hookup base for Key Largo's reef and paddling days.
Visitor center · 2.8 mi awayJohn Pennekamp Visitor Center and AquariumA reef introduction on land, with a 30,000-gallon saltwater tank.
Beach · 2.9 mi awayCannon BeachSnorkel a Spanish wreck display just off a compact Keys beach.
Beach · 3 mi awayFar BeachPalm shade and a mangrove boardwalk frame this small swimming beach.
Campground · 3.7 mi awayKings Kamp RV Park and MarinaA waterfront base with a marina, small beach and sunset docks.Parkwolf’s Overseas Highway ranking
The audio tour guide for the drive, plus offline maps, trails, and wildlife heatmaps for when the signal drops.
