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Five-Day Key Lime Celebration Sweetens a Key West Escape
Key West hosts five days of food events, contests, and island celebrations, pairing summer travel with nearby recreation and convenient overnight lodging.
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Key West takes its signature dessert seriously, and the five-day Key Lime Festival turns that devotion into a proper Independence Day celebration: pie-eating and pie-baking competitions, tastings across multiple venues, and waterfront gatherings anchored at Southernmost Beach Resort. The festival leans into the island’s playful streak more than culinary formality, treating the humble key lime pie as an excuse for a genuinely good time.
Spanning the holiday, the schedule naturally overlaps with Key West’s other Fourth of July programming, giving visitors reason to stay through the entire run rather than drop in for a single event. Expect tastings that range from purist to inventive, alongside the kind of easy, sun-soaked socializing that defines a Key West holiday week.
Because the festival coincides with one of the island’s busiest travel weeks, lodging near Duval Street or the Southernmost Beach area fills early. Travelers who commit to the full five days can pace themselves, a tasting here, a beach afternoon there, and end the week having sampled both the island’s signature flavor and its unhurried Independence Day spirit.
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