Did you know that the Florida Panhandle is technically three separate regions? There’s the Emerald Coast, the Forgotten Coast, and the Interior Panhandle. The Emerald Coast is also called the Miracle Strip and includes Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, and Bay counties. Formerly known as the “Redneck Riviera,” it includes such sites as the Choctawhatchee National Forest and the Gulf Islands National Seashore. The Forgotten Coast is called so because it includes a series of coastal counties that had been left out of Florida tourism promotions for several years in a row. The counties? Franklin, Gulf, Jefferson, and Wakulla. Some beautiful things to see are the Apalachicola National Forest and Bald Point State Park. The Interior Panhandle includes those counties not bordering either coast.
