Planning a Trip

Getting There

AirTran (tel. 800/AIR-TRAN), Delta (tel. 800/221-1212), Northwest (tel. 800/225-2525), and US Airways (tel. 800/428-4322) serve Tallahassee Regional Airport (tel. 850/891-7802; http://talgov.com/citytlh/aviation), 10 miles southwest of downtown on Southeast Capital Circle.

Alamo (tel. 800/327-9633), Avis (tel. 800/331-1212), Budget (tel. 800/527-0700), Hertz (tel. 800/654-3131), and National (tel. 800/CAR-RENT) have airport sites; Dollar (tel. 800/800-4000), Enterprise (tel. 800/325-8007), and Thrifty (tel. 800/367-2277) are nearby.

You can take a taxi downtown for about $19.

The Amtrak (tel. 800/872-7245; www.amtrak.com) transcontinental Sunset Limited train stops in Tallahassee at 918 1/2 Railroad Ave.

Visitor Information

For advance information, contact the Tallahassee Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, 200 W. College Ave. (P.O. Box 1369), Tallahassee, FL 32302 (tel. 800/628-2866 or 850/413-9200; fax 850/487-4621; www.seetallahassee.com). The bureau's excellent quarterly visitors guide has descriptions (including hours and admission fees) of just about everything going on here.

Go to the Tallahassee Area Visitor Information Center, 106 E. Jefferson St., across from the capitol (tel. 850/413-9200), for free street and public-transportation maps, brochures, and pamphlets outlining tours of the historic districts and the Canopy Roads. It's open Monday through Friday from 8am to 5pm, Saturday from 9am to noon.

For statewide information, a Florida Welcome Center is in the west foyer of the New Capitol Building.

Getting Around

The city's public-transportation agency, TALTRAN (tel. 850/891-5200), operates the free Old Town Trolley, the best way to see the sights of historic downtown Tallahassee. You can get on or off at any point between Adams Street Commons, at the corner of Jefferson and Adams streets, and the Governor's Mansion. The trolley runs Monday through Friday, every 20 minutes between 7am and 6:30pm.

TALTRAN also provides city bus service from its downtown terminal, at Tennessee and Adams streets ($1.25 adults, 60¢ seniors and kids 12 and under). The ticket booths there and at the Tallahassee Area Visitor Information Center have route maps and schedules.

For taxi service, call Yellow Cab (tel. 850/580-8080) or City Taxi (tel. 850/562-4222). Fares are about $2.50 at flag fall, plus $2 per mile.

Time

Tallahassee is in the Eastern Time zone, like Orlando, Miami, and Apalachicola. It's 1 hour ahead of the rest of the Panhandle.