Panama City Beach’s draw is Man in the Sea Museum
Panama City Beach has 9 notable places within 60 miles, among them 1 national park unit. Man in the Sea Museum is inside Panama City Beach. About 7.6M people a year visit Gulf Islands National Seashore. For a full day, there is Florida Caverns State Park, 56 mi away.
Vortex Spring
Freshwater spring and cave diving site in Florida.
The towns around it, and where to stay →
The layout
Gulf Islands National Seashore marks the outer edge, 39 mi away.
Orange: Panama City Beach. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors
All of it
First the one in town, then the 8 within 60 miles.
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3Gulf Islands National Seashore
96,000 underwater acres in Mississippi and Florida (US) managed by the National Park Service.
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8Science and Discovery Center of Northwest Florida
Children's museum in Panama City, Florida.
9Walton County Heritage Museum
History museum in DeFuniak Springs, Florida.
The places inside Panama City Beach lead. The rest are ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places come first and the local favorites follow.
Parks and trails in Panama City Beach →
Photo credits
Man in the Sea Museum: Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Vortex Spring: Paul Clark. Edited slightly by Daniel Case prior to upload, CC BY 2.0 · Gulf Islands National Seashore: National Park Service, Public domain · Florida Caverns State Park: Tim Ross, Public domain · Air Force Armament Museum: Greg Goebel, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Florala City Park: Skye Marthaler, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Heritage Museum of Northwest Florida: Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Science and Discovery Center of Northwest Florida: Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Walton County Heritage Museum: Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0
