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Perry, FL Road Trips

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city in Taylor County, Florida, United States

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Trip Routes

4

Longest Drive

322 mi

Cape Coral, FL

Quickest Drive

1h 8m

Tallahassee, FL

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Perry, FL by the Numbers

Recent demographic snapshot from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey.

Population

6,965

Median Income

$44,815

Median Home Value

$122,900

Median Age

34.8

Source: US Census Bureau ACS 5-year (public domain). See our methodology for details.

Traveler Guide to Perry, FL

Perry is a city in Florida's Big Bend Coast region with a population of 7,000 as of 2010. The county seat of Taylor County, it's named after former governor and Confederate colonel Madison Perry.

The city, which is approximately 50 mi (80 km) southeast of Tallahassee, has had two major, unfortunate events in history. The Perry Race Riot took place in late 1922, during which the white population of the city attacked Perry's black community, bringing about multiple lynchings; and in 1998, a fire at a natural gas plant turned into an explosion, causing the hospitalization of multiple firefighters, the destruction of several houses and vehicles, and evacuation of homes. The area around the city has a subtropical climate as is typical in northern Florida.

1 Econfina River State Park, 4741 Econfina River Road, Lamont, ☏ +1 850 922-6007. The park, which is over 3,000 acres in area, includes pine flatwoods, forests, and salt marshes. Picnicking, birding, kayaking, canoeing, fishing, etc. are activities here. It's at the mouth of the Econfina River.

1 Deal's Famous Oyster House, 2571 US-98, ☏ +1 850 838-3325. (updated Jun 2020)

Hampton Inn, 2399 South Byron Butler Pkwy, ☏ +1 850 223-3000. Check-in: 3PM, check-out: 11AM. (updated Jun 2020)

The city has a public-use airport, the 1 Perry-Foley Airport. There is a major airport in Orlando to the southeast.

Travel tips adapted from Perry (Florida) on Wikivoyage, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Content summarized; visit the source for the full article. See our methodology for how we use it.

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