Florida Distance From New York

You've made it to this post so I judge y'all're seriously considering doing this drive. Skilful for y'all! To assist you on your way, I've created a step-by-step itinerary for driving the 16+ hours from the New York metro area to the Sunshine Country. With stops you are looking at close to 20-hours door-to-door, depending on your final destination in Florida. Total distance from New York to Jacksonville is about 940 miles.

I've broken the itinerary downwards into 2 days of driving with i overnight stay in between. Day i takes you along the nigh congested part of Interstate 95 from New York south through Washington, D.C. and northern Virginia ending your drive in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Day two takes you on a long, flat bulldoze through Due north Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia and finally into Florida. Yous can comfortably reach northern and cardinal Florida in the evening of this second day. For the purposes of this itinerary, all mileages are based on the drive from the New York metro area to Jacksonville, Florida. For destinations further south, mileage estimates are noted below.

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Day 1 – New York to Fayetteville, North Carolina with scheduled stops for lunch & dinner. Assume a few additional stops for bathroom breaks.

Total mileage – approximately 544

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1. Go on the road by around ten a.m. This volition allow you to get through the Washington, D.C. surface area alee of the afternoon rush.

two. If you're ready for a pit finish, the Delaware Welcome Center is located between miles 3 and 1, well-nigh 130-miles into the trip.

iii. Get some lunch. I suggest doing something quick as you lot'll cease for a scrap longer at dinnertime. Exits 77 -67 in Maryland have lots of options.

4. Upon inbound Maryland, follow signs for 895-South and the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel.

Interesting Fact: If y'all first singing the Star Spangled Banner when you enter the tunnel, yous will exist singing, "And the abode…of the…brave!" just as you exit (so long equally in that location's no traffic). Works every time!

v. After getting through D.C. finish for some dinner. Buzz and Ned's BBQ and Kitchen 64 are both off exit 78 in Richmond. If yous don't feel similar a longer stop, there are all sorts of fast food joints off all of the nearby exits. Richmond is about 336-miles into the trip. It'southward another 210 miles to Fayetteville, NC from here which is where you'll stop for the night.

6. Get dorsum on the road. After nearly an hour, popular a movie in for the kiddos. They'll exist finishing upwards the pic just nearly the time you're arriving in Fayetteville. Exit 49 is where yous'll notice several major hotels. I like the DoubleTree.

Travel Tip – There is admittedly no need to bring all of your vacation luggage into the hotel for the night. Pack a small-scale overnight bag or 2 for your family and leave it in an hands accessible place in the trunk. Pack pajamas, fresh wearing apparel and whatsoever toiletries you might need for an overnight stay in a hotel. Plan on having a dissever pocketbook into which y'all can pack up all of your electronics and whatever other valuables and bring that into the hotel for the night as well, just to exist on the safe side.

24-hour interval 2 – Fayetteville, North Carolina to Jacksonville, Florida (and beyond!)

Total Mileage – about 396

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1. Eat breakfast. The larger hotel bondage often offer some kind of breakfast buffet–always meet if you can go that included in the price of your room. If there'southward an upcharge for breakfast, do the math. My kids aren't big breakfast eaters so spending $8.99 for each of them to take half a bagel simply isn't cost effective. At that place is a Waffle House and a Cracker Barrel at exit 49 and either of those will get y'all a decent breakfast at a expert price fairly quickly.

2. Hit the route! Calling Jacksonville your destination ways you lot don't have every bit far to go today, just if you're headed to Orlando or points south, yous'll want to tack on some other 150+ miles–Florida is a LONG state. The last time we did this bulldoze I hit Jacksonville right at rush hour on a Friday afternoon and 95-due south was a parking lot for a good xv-20 miles. Programme accordingly and don't delay getting started in the morning.

Travel Tip: This morning driving stretch is a good time for some car games. Everyone is relatively chipper from a adept night'due south sleep (hopefully) and not yet sick of existence in the car. This is also the stretch of road where information technology will soon be time to count the Pedro signs (in that location are reportedly 175 of them). But don't go sucked in! South of the Border is pretty tacky and quite bluntly it creeps me out. I wouldn't waste product fourth dimension stopping there. The kids will exist certain to enquire if yous can, though!

3. Good places to pit finish during the first part of the drive today are Florence, South Carolina (exits 164 & 160 – approximately 90 miles due south of Fayetteville), Santee, South Carolina (exit 98 – approximately 150 miles southward of Fayetteville), and Walterboro, South Carolina (leave 57 – approximately 195 miles s of Fayetteville). All three of these have their fair share of fast food places and gas stations, each ane has a Cracker Barrel and all have a few non-chain spots for lunch. Lunch spots and places of involvement include:

Thunderbird State Kitchen, Percy & Willie's, Redbone Alley and Starfire Grill in Florence
The Pee-Dee State Farmer'southward Market – Florence
Immature Pecan Outlet – Florence
Solitary Star Charcoal-broil & Mercantile, Clark's Inn & Eatery, and Maurice's Piggie Park BBQ in Santee
Olde Business firm Cafe – Walterboro
The South Carolina Artisans Center & self-guided bout of nearby Washington Street – Walterboro

iv. Once you arrive past Walterboro y'all're nearly 200-miles due north of Jacksonville. Along the way in Georgia, Pooler (just n of Savannah at go out 102), Richmond Colina (leave 87), Brunswick (go out 36), and Kingsland (get out iii) are all well-stocked with services. Just due south of Kingsland yous'll cross the Florida State Line.

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Travel Tip: This stretch of afternoon driving, particularly after luncheon when anybody is ready to Simply GET THERE ALREADY, is a skillful fourth dimension for a captivating audio-book, a dvd, and a nap.

5. The Florida State Line – Almost 2 miles past the state line into Florida is the Florida Welcome Eye. Located correct on 95, it is just south of leave 380. Swing in here for a few minutes use the restrooms and gloat your accomplishment with some free orange juice.

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6. From the Welcome Center, y'all are this many miles from the following destinations:

Jacksonville – well-nigh 20
St. Augustine – nearly 75
Daytona Beach – about 115
Orlando – virtually 170
Tampa, St. petersburg, Sarasota and points due west – most 225 – 275
Palm Beach & Boca Raton – about 310 -330
Ft. Myers and Sanibel – nigh 350
Ft. Lauderdale – about 350
Miami – nearly 375
Central West – about 525

At present the but thing to do is relax, savour your holiday…and endeavour non to call back virtually the drive home!

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