Key West Cruise Port Walking Tours: Self-Guided Audio

Wreckers & Salvagers Heritage

Explore the treacherous trade that built Key West's fortune from misfortune. Captains racing to stranded ships, warehouses brimming with salvaged cargo, and stately homes proclaiming wealth wrested from reef and ruin reveal an industry that made this island America's richest.

Duval Street: Mile of History

Traverse the storied mile connecting Gulf to Atlantic through Key West's commercial heart. Victorian facades, Art Deco towers, and legendary nightlife venues chronicle an island transformed from wrecking wealth to tropical playground.

Ernest Hemingway's Key West Years: Self-Guided Audio Walking Tour

This self-guided audio walk follows Ernest Hemingway's years in Key West, 1928 to 1939, at seven places and nine stops (three of the stops are around the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum). Every stop comes with two to four links to its sources, among them clippings from the Key West Citizen of his years and his own letters. He landed in April 1928 and sailed for Havana on December 24, 1939. The walk opens in your phone's web browser, with no app to install, and each stop is told from the public sidewalk or a public park. At each stop you get a short narration to hear, the same words to read, and two to four links to its sources. The sources include the Key West paper of the day, a letter of his from April 1928 and a federal survey of the house. Where a story comes from a later teller and not from a record of the time, the narration names the teller. The route is about 2.1 miles on foot. Walking takes about 45 minutes and the narration about 16 minutes, about 61 minutes in all. It starts at Simonton and Caroline Streets. Not included: entry to the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum, sold by the museum at its gate. Not wheelchair accessible. Service animals are allowed. Travelers should have a moderate level of physical fitness.

Starts at Simonton Street & Caroline Street · 45 min walking