The Florida Heartland is a region of South Florida. It includes the counties of Hardee, DeSoto, Highlands, Okeechobee, Glades, Hendry, and the western most parts of Palm Beach and Martin County's. The region is most known for its large agriculture sector, and shoreline along the large Lake Okeechobee. More sparsely populated than neighboring regions that have been pumped up by retirees and tourism, this area has remained more like "Old Florida".

Cities

• 1 Arcadia
• 2 Avon Park
• 3 Belle Glade
• 4 Bowling Green
• 5 Clewiston
• 6 Indiantown
• 7 LaBelle
• 8 Lake Placid
• 9 Moore Haven
• 10 Okeechobee
• 11 Pahokee
• 12 Sebring
• 13 Wauchula
• 14 Zolfo Springs

Other destinations

• 1 Brighton Seminole Indian Reservation

Understand

This region has no salt water coastline. The advent of the Interstate Highway System (I-75 and I-95) and the Florida Turnpike diverted tourism away from this area towards the coastal parts of the state.

Get around

By car

Major routes include the Florida Turnpike, US 17, US 27 and US 441.

See

• 1 Highlands Hammock State Park.  
• 2 Lake June-In-Winter State Park.  
• 3 Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park.  
• 4 Lake Wales Ridge National Wildlife Refuge.  

Do

• Fishing on Lake Okeechobee