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Skyway Fishing Pier State Park. Skyway Fishing Pier State Park is a Florida State Park located on the north and south sides of the mouth of Tampa Bay. When the original cantilevered Sunshine Skyway Bridge, carrying I-275 (US 19), partially collapsed in 1980, due to the collision of a freighter on one of its pilings, it was replaced by the ...
Cedar Key is a city in Levy County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 687, down from 702 at the 2010 census. [7] It is part of the Gainesville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. The Cedar Keys are a cluster of islands near the mainland.
South Skyway Fishing Pier; Rest Area: Hillsborough 7: 11: Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay: Pinellas: St. Petersburg: 10.23: 16.46: North Skyway Fishing Pier; Rest Area: North Toll Plaza (southbound only; cash or SunPass) 14.30: 23.01: Skyway Lane, Pinellas Point Drive: northbound exit and southbound entrance; I-275 exit 16: 14.772 [11] 23 ...
Rising seas only raise future risks for Florida. Ashley Miznazi. August 31, 2023 at 5:30 AM. People have lived on Cedar Key for hundreds of years, returning and rebuilding after Civil War battles ...
Cedar Key Museum State Park. / 29.15306°N 83.04694°W / 29.15306; -83.04694. Cedar Key State Museum is an 18 acres (7.3 ha) Florida State Park located at 12231 SW 166th Court, Cedar Key, Florida. [1] The museum displays items collected by Saint Clair Whitman, a local resident who established the first museum in his home.
Hurricane Elena was a strong and destructive tropical cyclone that affected eastern and central portions of the United States Gulf Coast in late August and early September 1985. Threatening popular tourist destinations during Labor Day weekend, Elena repeatedly deviated from its forecast path, triggering evacuations of unprecedented extent.
The Fort Clinch State Park is a Florida State Park, located on a peninsula near the northernmost point of Amelia Island, along the Amelia River. Its 1,100 acres (4 km 2) include the 19th-century Fort Clinch, sand dunes, plains, maritime hammock and estuarine tidal marsh. The park and fort lie to the northeast of Fernandina Beach at the entrance ...
Waccasassa Bay Preserve State Park is a 30,784-acre (124.58 km 2) salt marsh that stretches from Cedar Key to Yankee Town, and is only accessible by boat. It includes the part of Gulf Hammock wetlands area that is closest to the Gulf. Some access points are from County Road 40 in Yankee Town, by boat down the Waccasassa River from the community ...