100 miles E of Pensacola, 100 miles SW of Tallahassee
Panama City Beach, a spring-break mecca once erroneously featured as a bleak, desolate wasteland of sun and strip malls in the Ashley Judd film Ruby in Paradise, has long been known as the “Redneck Riviera.” Millions flock here from the bordering states of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. It still has a seemingly unending strip of bars, amusement parks, and old-fashioned motels, but this lively … Continue reading →

Excerpted from Frommer's Florida 2009, © 2009, Wiley Publishing, Inc.