
Today Fort Myers is a city of nearly a hundred thousand, a snowbird and year-round hub on the Southwest Florida coast, anchored by the Edison and Ford Winter Estates and the revived River District downtown. The wider region took a hard blow when Hurricane Ian came ashore in Lee County in 2022, and the recovery has been long. The royal palms along McGregor still stand, and downtown's First Street still fills on a weekend evening.
Fort Myers is the City of Palms — a Seminole-War fort on the Caloosahatchee that grew, beneath a corridor of royal palms, into Southwest Florida's great river town. Our Fort Myers designs gather that into wearable form. Wear the City of Palms. Wear the river and the royal-palm road.
Why People Visit Fort Myers
Fort Myers rewards travelers who want history, gardens, and the river rather than only a beach — the inventors' winter estates, the royal-palm boulevard, and a revived downtown on the Caloosahatchee. People come for the Edison and Ford estates and the City-of-Palms streetscape, for the manatees and cypress boardwalks, and for an easygoing Southwest Florida day where Gilded-Age history and subtropical nature sit side by side.