Zero mile "US Route 1". Webcam Key West online

In Key West is mile zero of the first road ("US Route 1" or simply "US 1"), which runs through the Eastern part of the country to Canada, crossing the Miami, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, new York and Boston. The name of the American town of Key West, Florida, Monroe County, comes from the Spanish cayo hueso, meaning "Island of bones". They say the first Europeans came across the bones everywhere — not a trace of battles between the Indians, not the blurred ocean burial. From the word cayos occurs and the name of the whole ridge of the Florida Keys Keys Florida. Thin island chain, serving the natural border between the Atlantic ocean and the Gulf of Mexico and stretches from Florida city on the southern tip of the continent all the way to Key West. For the last 70 miles of the Federal highway 1 turns into one big bridge in the open sea. All ends road sign "zero mile" — Mile 0 — and smart ocean buoy at the end of Whitehead street. The buoy says: "the southernmost point of the continental USA. To Havana 90 miles." To Havana 94, although this is still less to Miami, and the southernmost point of the USA is a group of Islands dry Tortugas, indeed the last in the Keys. However, inaccuracies are few who care: the mythology here is stronger than geography.