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Added to NRHP. August 24, 1989. The Huntington Beach Pier is a municipal pier located in Huntington Beach, California, at the west end of Main Street and west of Pacific Coast Highway. At 1,850 ft (560 m) in length, it is one of the longest public piers on the West Coast of the United States. (The Oceanside Pier at 1,942 ft (592 m) is the longest.)
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Florida Department of Environmental Protection. 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 ...
Venice Fishing Pier is a pier in Venice, Los Angeles, in the U.S. state of California. [1] The pier is part of Venice Beach Boardwalk and attracts between 28,000 to 30,000 visitors daily. [2] The current concrete structure was completed c. 1963. [3] The pier was ordered closed in 1983 after waves tore out a concrete ramp to the pier and cut ...
July 13, 2017. The Boston Fish Pier is the central site for the fishing industry based in Boston, Massachusetts. Located on Northern Avenue in South Boston in Boston's Inner Harbor, the pier has played this role since its establishment in 1910. In the 1920s, it was home to one of the largest fishing fleets in the eastern United States ...
The original fishing pier was destroyed in Hurricane Ivan in 2004. The Federal Emergency Management Agency built the new pier in 2010, using concrete construction as opposed to the original's wood, to replace the mostly destroyed structure. [6] The structure is 30 feet (9.1 meters) above the Gulf of Mexico and is built to survive heavy seas. [4]
San Luis Pass is a passage of water on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States. It connects the sheltered waters of West Bay to the open Gulf of Mexico between Galveston Island and San Luis Island. Fishermen and swimmers have been killed in the Pass' treacherous waters. [2][3] The Gulf of Mexico-West Bay pass transitions vast volumes of seawater.