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The local guide

Everything worth doing.Within 20 minutes.

Editors' picks across 8categories — the dock with the deepest channel, the winery with the view, the restaurant with the right wine list, the trail nobody's on at sunrise.

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Restaurants

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Starke
The Downtown Grill

A full-service restaurant and bar in historic downtown Starke, serving contemporary American food.

Starke
Call Street Cafe

A breakfast-and-lunch cafe on Call Street in downtown Starke, open since 2015.

Iconic stops

Iconic stops

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Starke
Camp Blanding Museum and Memorial Park

A free museum on the Camp Blanding grounds, housed in a restored WWII barracks — uniforms, weapons, vehicles, and exhibits on the base that trained more than 745,000 soldiers during World War II, when it briefly became Florida's fourth-largest city.

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Kingsley Lake
Kingsley Lake Park

A small public park directly on the lake — a tennis court, a covered picnic pavilion, a playground, and a little free library. No swim beach or boat ramp; the honest, genuinely public foothold on a lake with otherwise restricted shore access.