Other than building great outdoor projects, here's what we love most about this city.

1. The Crossroads of Flagler County
Bunnell is the county seat and the geographic and civic heart of Flagler County — the place where the county's roads, government, and history intersect. Founded as a railroad stop in 1909, the city grew around the Florida East Coast Railway and the cypress mill that supplied timber for the expanding state. Family names from those early decades — Moody, Lambert, Holden, Deen — still appear on street signs, business names, and political ballots in 2025. That kind of continuity is genuinely rare in a state that reinvents itself every generation.

2. Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park
Just outside Bunnell, the 150-acre Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park preserves one of Florida's most significant 19th-century archaeological sites. The coquina ruins of a sugar mill, a spring house, wells, and the foundation of the plantation mansion that enslaved people built and maintained still stand in the jungle-like landscape along Bulow Creek. The plantation was destroyed during the Second Seminole War in 1836. Walking through the ruins on a quiet weekday feels like discovering something the rest of Florida forgot about entirely.

3. Moody Homestead Park and the 400-Year-Old Oaks
Moody Homestead Park in Bunnell is home to live oak trees estimated at 400 years old — trees that were already mature when Florida was a Spanish colony and were standing when the first railroad reached this part of Flagler County in the early 1900s. They are the kind of trees that make people stop walking and just look up. In a county where development moves fast and old things get replaced regularly, these oaks are one of the few things that simply cannot be replicated.

4. One of Florida's Largest Cities by Land Area
Despite having fewer than 5,000 residents, Bunnell covers more than 137 square miles — making it one of the largest cities by land area in the entire state of Florida, second only to Jacksonville. Almost all of that land is undeveloped agricultural countryside, pine forest, and natural habitat. For homeowners who moved here specifically to escape the density, HOA restrictions, and coded conformity of Palm Coast and coastal Flagler County, that space isn't an inconvenience — it's the whole point.

5. The Bunnell Italian Festival
Every October, Bunnell hosts the two-day Italian Festival — a genuine community celebration with street food, craft beer, wine, live music, and the kind of local pride that a small county seat generates when it decides to throw a party. It draws visitors from across Flagler County and the surrounding region, and it is one of those events that reminds residents and outsiders alike that Bunnell has a character and a community identity entirely its own — one that has nothing to do with the beach towns to the east.