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Lovers Key State Park is a 712-acre (2.88 km 2) Florida State Park located on Lover's Key and three other barrier islands—Black Island, Inner and Long Key. It is at 8700 Estero Blvd., Fort Myers Beach , between Big Carlos Pass and New Pass and 10.5 miles (16.9 km) west of Interstate 75 on exit 116.
The island is virtually uninhabited, being home to the 524-acre (212-hectare) Bahia Honda State Park. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Founded in 1961, the park occupies most of the island. [ 2 ] The channel at the island's west end is one of the deepest natural channels in the Florida Keys.
The 1733 Fleet was an entire Spanish convoy (except for one ship) lost in a hurricane off Florida. The lesser severity of the 1733 hurricane (which struck the fleet on July 15) and the shallowness of the wrecksites in the Keys, however, made for many survivors and even left four ships in good enough condition to be re-floated and sent back to Havana.
Bahia Honda State Park: Monroe: 524 acres (212 ha) 1961: Atlantic Ocean Gulf of Mexico: An island in the lower Florida Keys: Bald Point State Park: Franklin: 4,065 acres (1,646 ha) 1999: Gulf of Mexico: Amphibious landing exercises held during World War II: The Barnacle Historic State Park: Miami-Dade: 5 acres (2 ha) 1973: Biscayne Bay
Windley Key Fossil Reef Geological State Park is a Florida State Park located at mile marker 85.5 on US 1 near Islamorada. It was a former quarry used by Henry Flagler in the early 1900s to help his building of the Overseas Railroad. Following the railroad's completion, it was a source of decorative stone pieces called Keystone. Now on display ...
Long Key State Park is a 965-acre (3.91 km 2) Florida State Park located on Long Key, one of the Florida Keys, in Monroe County, Florida, United States. It is at mile marker 67.5 on U.S. 1 , 67400 Overseas Highway.
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Indian Key Historic State Park is an island within the Florida State Park system, located just a few hundred yards southeast of U.S. 1 within the Florida Keys off the Hawk Channel passage. The island was home to the town of Indian Key, Florida, in the middle of the 19th century but is now an uninhabited ghost town. [2]