Plan your drive
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Open in Apple Maps ↗Who should skip it
A seven-hour round trip from Tampa Bay is real — make it an overnight or skip it.
The move
Book an Apalachicola inn months out; festival weekend fills the town's few hundred rooms completely.
Getting there
Grass lots around Battery Park; the whole town is walkable once you're in.
One thing worth knowing
The festival has crowned a King Retsyo — 'oyster' backwards — since the 1950s.
Make it an outing
Pair with a St. George Island beach morning before the drive home.
Official site — confirm dates and tickets before you travel
Going? Send it to whoever you’d go with — they’ll get the dates, the hours and where to park.
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