Last Train Home

PBS Premiere: Sept. 27, 2011Check the broadcast schedule »

Massive Migrations

Spring Break


During the month of March, hundreds of thousands of students in U.S. colleges and abroad vacate their campuses to blow off some steam in tropical locations. Top destinations such as Cancún, Puerto Vallarta, the Bahamas, Miami Beach and Panama City Beach, FL, see a wave a students descend, with Panama City Beach alone estimating 400,000 visitors during the Spring Break period.


Photo caption: Roads in Miami-Dade County   Credit: Averette at en.wikipedia / CC BY 3.0

Sources:
» The New York Times. "The Innocent Birth of the Spring Bacchanal." March 19, 2006.
» U.S. News. "Best Spring Break Destinations."