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0286403 [1] Website. Official website. Marco Island is a city and barrier island in Collier County, Florida, 20 miles (32 km) south of Naples on the Gulf Coast of the United States. It is the largest barrier island in Southwest Florida's Ten Thousand Islands area, which extends southerly to Cape Sable. Marco Island is home to an affluent beach ...
2,400 sq ft (220 m 2) The Cape Romano Dome House was a structure consisting of six dome-shaped modules on stilts, originally built on an islet located approximately 300 feet (91 m) offshore from Cape Romano Island, south of Marco Island, in the Ten Thousand Islands of Collier County, Florida. Cape Romano Dome house was built in 1982 by retired ...
Opened. Original Bridge: 1938. Current Bridge. 1975. Location. The Stan Gober Memorial Bridge (previously known as the Goodland Bridge) is a bridge near Goodland, Florida connecting the east side of Marco Island with main land Collier County. The bridge is one of two bridges connecting Marco Island with the main land, with the other being the S ...
The Ten Thousand Islands are located near the south end of the Florida peninsula on the Gulf Coast, west of the Everglades Indian Key Pass - Ten Thousand Islands. The Ten Thousand Islands are a chain of islands and mangrove islets off the coast of southwest Florida, between Cape Romano (at the south end of Marco Island) and the mouth of the Lostmans River.
Collier Boulevard is a nearly 27-mile-long (43 km) north–south divided highway that extends from the south end of Marco Island through central Collier County to CR 846 (Immokalee Road) north of Golden Gate. State-maintained segments of Collier Boulevard are designated as State Road 951 (SR 951), which previously existed over the entire route ...
The island complex consists of narrow barrier beaches with large mangrove mangals (forests) behind the beaches. The Kice Island barrier beach was 2.5 miles (4.0 km) long in 1976, extending southsouthwest from Caxamabas Pass and Bay. Hurricane Wilma made landfall near Cape Romano in 2005, bringing a 10-foot (3.0 m) storm surge onto Kice Island ...
The islands are, from west to east: Biscayne Island (Miami), San Marco Island (Miami), San Marino Island (Miami Beach), Di Lido Island (Miami Beach), Rivo Alto Island (Miami Beach), and Belle Isle (Miami Beach). Flagler Monument Island remains an uninhabited picnic island, originally built in 1920 as a memorial to railroad pioneer Henry Flagler ...
Isles of Capri, Florida. Coordinates: 25°58′58″N 81°43′39″W. Isles of Capri is an island community located in unincorporated Collier County, Florida. The isles are a grouping of four mangrove islands that were developed and connected in the 1950s. [1] The isles are connected by Capri Boulevard, and can be accessed from nearby SR 951 ...