Best known as Florida’s capital city, Tallahassee shares a deep-rooted history and culture with unparalleled natural adventure and an upbeat vitality. A fusion of cosmopolitan flair and charming personality defines the spirit of our great city. Stretching along the Florida Panhandle, Tallahassee is a place where a college town meets a cultural center, politics meets performing arts and history meets nature.
Touting a menagerie of sights, including one of the world’s deepest freshwater springs, wildlife habitats, Capitol buildings, fascinating museums of history, sprawling plantations, highly acclaimed fishing and hunting adventures, nearby beaches, superior dining, a bustling nightlife
If you are thinking of paying us a visit, start by checking out the list of local Tallahassee attractions below.
Area Attractions:
Lake Talquin State Forest / Bear Creek Educational Forest
14850 Jack Vause Landing Rd.
Tallahassee, FL 32309
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Phone: (850) 487-3766
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This approximately 17,500 acre forest offers Nature Bear Creek Educational Forest,
a wheelchair-accessible Living Forest Trail providing botanical information from “talking trees” telling their own stories at designated stops in the forest and leads to both the Bear Creek Trail and the rugged Ravine Trail.
LeMoyne Center for the Visual Arts
125 N. Gadsden St.
Tallahassee, FL 32301
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Phone: (850) 222-8800
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LeMoyne is a center for the visual arts that has served the Tallahassee area for over 48 years. LeMoyne provides ten fine art exhibitions each year, year round studio art classes, and special art-related cultural events for the citizens of Tallahassee and the surrounding area. Open Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm, we hope you will visit soon and we look forward to seeing you.
The LeMoyne exhibition space is located in the Meginnis-Monroe House, a National Register property, with adjoining facilities housing art classrooms. All facilities are located three blocks from the Capitol in Tallahassee, Florida. As many as three hundred artists per year show their work at LeMoyne, and art education classes for both children and adults are offered year round. Special events include the annual, Holiday Show and Sale opening on Thanksgiving Night through Christmas Eve and the annual LeMoyne Chain of Parks Art Festival, a two-day fine art festival held in downtown Tallahassee on the third weekend in April. LeMoyne’s mission is to promote and advance education, interest and participation in the contemporary visual arts.
LeRoy Collins Leon County Public Library
200 West Park Avenue
Tallahassee, FL 32301
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Phone: (850)606-2665
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Offers monthly art exhibits on the walls and in glass exhibition cases, featuring artwork, collectibles, and rare books. Emphasis is on local artists. Library also offers author series Booked for Lunch on the third Thursday of the month, where local authors talk about and read from their books in a casual setting.
Letchworth-Love Mounds State Park
4500 Sunray Rd.
Tallahassee, FL 32309
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Phone: (850) 922-6007
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Letchworth-Love Mounds Archaeological State Park is one of the state’s most significant Native American ceremonial sites, featuring Florida’s tallest Native American ceremonial mound - 46 feet tall. The people who built the mound are believed to have been members of the Weedon Island Culture, a group of Native Americans who lived in North Florida between 200 and 800 A.D.
Named for the gates of medieval England that separated the world of the living from the world of the dead, Lichgate is a lovingly built enchanted cottage reminiscent of the fairytale cottages of childhood stories. With butterfly, perennial and daffodil gardens enhancing the grounds, Lichgate stands as a memorial to the world of retrospect.
M Gallery
2533 Greer Rd # 1
Tallahassee, FL 32308
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Phone: (850) 531-9925
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M Gallery constantly strives to bring fun, unique art pieces to the Tallahassee area, as well as featuring local artists with works of regional interest. Artists’ media include oils, pastels, mixed media, glass, and metal, and feature originals, limited editions, and fine art prints. Archival custom framing is also available.
Maclay Gardens State Park
3540 Thomasville Rd.
Tallahassee, FL 32308
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Phone: (850) 487-4556
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The 1,184 acres of Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park includes ornamental gardens, hammocks, ravines, pine woods, mixed pine and hardwood forest. Wintering orange-crowned warblers and blue-headed vireos are seen next to Lake Hall with many additional bird species being seen along the Lake Overstreet trails.
Founded to create an awareness and appreciation for dance as a fine art in the community at large, Mahogany produces and performs two yearly concerts, participates in numerous public events, and has even stepped off its home turf, Florida AM University, to inner city stages throughout the southeast. Mahogany Dance Theatre’s repertoire includes Lindy Hop, African, modern dance, ballet, tap, jazz, and Hip-Hop.
The Mickee Faust Club is Tallahassee’s tongue-in-cheek answer to a
certain unctuous rodent in Orlando. The company performs comedic,
cabaret-style shows in a lime green and purple barn at the lip of
Railroad Square. Show dates posted on website and tickets too can be
bought on line. Live pre-show music under the Mulberry tree in the
backyard. Come see the weirdest thing in Tallahassee since l987.
Mission San Luis
2100 West Tennessee St.
Tallahassee, FL 32304
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Phone: (850) 245-6406
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Mission San Luis de Apalache, also known as San Luis de Talimali, was the western anchor of the mission system stretching from the Apalachicola River to St. Augustine in the 1600s. On-going excavations have uncovered the Spanish fort, religious complex, council house and several homes. All of these structures, including the largest known Indian Council House in the Southeast, have been meticulously reconstructed. Mission San Luis includes a magnificent new Visitor Center.
Adults: $5. Seniors 65+: $3. Children 6-17: $2. Children under 6, Members Active Military: FREE
