Duval Street St – Key West

Why We Love Duval Street

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Key West is a small island city with a very diverse population.  While  certainly a wealthy community, there are also plenty of regular folk just trying to make a living in Paradise.  While there are lots of snowbirds here in winter, making the average age tilt toward the retirement generation, there’ s a vibrant youthful energy on Duval Street, with kids, twenty-somethings, rockers, skaters, and even a small underworld that’s kept closely in check by our friendly Key West Police department.

In short, Duval Street is a microcosm of a larger city, with many of the elements found only in larger metropolitan areas without the pitfalls that come with urbanization… like major crime and stress.  This is the start of a long list of reasons why we love Duval Street!

Stay with us and we’ll take you on a photo-video journey up and down Duval, from Key West’s South Beach to Mallory Square.  In addition to streetlife on Duval, you can check out bars, hotels, restaurants, shopping, and festivals.  It’s all here on one crazy street called Duval.

Duval Street Bars

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From one end of Duval to the other, you’ll find bars to fit every personality and every mood.  From the anything goes joint to the elegant piano bar, Duval Street bars cover the gamut of entertainment and nightlife in Key West.  There are more bars on this street than anything else it seems, which you and your friends or family can bar hop all day long and never visit the same bar twice.

We even have a term for this action, the ability to visit so many bars on one street, from one end to the other…it’s called the Duval Crawl.  You can party it up, jump from bar to bar, and never ever step foot in a car.  It’s all done on foot, safely thank goodness.  You can hop, jump, or crawl between such a diverse set of bars you’ll feel like you’re at the Epcot Center of bars…a new flavor every few steps.

Go from a old honky tonk three level bar that’s steeped in historical charm, booze, and night after night of rowdy live entertainment to a swank patio bar with Sunday tea dances and gourmet bar food.  That would be The Bull & Whistle and La Te Da, located at opposite ends of Duval Street.  And there’s a whole lot more in between, with so many Duval Street bars you can’t throw a stick without hitting one!