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Good roads in NW Florida

jennam

Goblin Guru
jennam
We're going to vacation in NW Florida (Navarre Beach area) the first week in June. I'm planning on bringing my Goblin, we've been wanting to drive down the beach roads with the top down, so to speak.

I was curious if y'all had some recommendations for good roads that'd be fun and/or interesting to drive in the area?
 
R
The beach road is probably the best you'll find around here. It's somewhat twisty compared to the rest of the roads. Otherwise, all of the decent driving roads are north of niceville that I've found. There's a small (read really small) stretch of road going between the west gate and east gate of NAS Pensacola, but crossing into Pensacola at the moment from Navarre requires taking 87 to I10 or using the Garcon Point bridge (toll free at the moment) because the Pensacola Bay Bridge was damaged during Hurricane Sally. Traffic across the Garcon Point Bridge is hell starting around 7am until 5pm because of all the traffic.

The only other road in the Navarre area is East Bay Blvd. Connects 87 to 98 through back roads. It's not the curviest, but it's not entirely straight either. It's not always the smoothest either, but I've taken my z4 through there a couple times. If you guys want a long day of driving, take 292 through Pensacola (warrington area) past base and down through Perdido Key. You can hop on the ferry and ride it across Mobile Bay and then drive north through Mobile and through the tunnel back towards Florida. Did this with my Z4 as well without issue. The Ferry had me worried, but cleared the crest without issue. You might want to check your ground clearance on the goblin and compare it to the z4. I don't have my goblin yet, but my 2020 z4 is right around 5in (130mm advertised by bmw)

**Edit** Forgot to mention, coming from Mobile toward Pensacola, after the tunnel you can stop at the "Might A" at Battleship Park. They have planes, memorials, and the USS Alabama that you can tour.
 
jennam
Cool. Thanks for the info. We've been to Pensacola multiple times but it's normally just straight to the beach.

The battleship is definitely on my list. I'm hoping I can get some cool pictures with some of the stuff there since my car is done in an airplane theme.

I'd love to see y'alls cars while I'm down there if the timing works out.
 
JPas914
I got the title and temp plate the same day.

To fit the Aviation theme of your Goblin....you can hit the Air Force Armament Museum at Eglin AFB.
 
jaredthenav
Please DM me when you know you're coming. We would love to see your car. We should have a drivable car by then. My place is only a mile from the navarre beach bridge. I'll pass along all our local restaurants as well.
 
jaredthenav
The beach road thorough the national seas shore between navarre beach and pensacola beach is great and I think it just re opened after hurricane sally washed it out.
 
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