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Boca Chica Key is an island in the lower Florida Keys, about a mile (1.6 km) east of the island of Key West at its closest point. Its name is Spanish for "small mouth". It is mostly covered by salt marshes and mangrove trees, and is the home of the largest Naval Air Station (NAS Key West) in south Florida.
From its national southern terminus in Key West, US 1 carries the Overseas Highway, which is the Keys's main highway, north to the mainland, entering South Florida. From South Florida to Jacksonville , US 1 runs close to the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean and the Intracoastal Waterway , generally east of Interstate 95 (I-95) and west of State ...
Overseas Highway and Railway bridges, Florida Keys The Overseas Highway begins at a T intersection between US 1 and SR A1A, from which it heads east. [4] After crossing to Stock Island and forming the boundary between the eponymous district and incorporated Key West, US 1 proceeds through unincorporated Monroe County on Boca Chica Key, [5] past Naval Air Station Key West, and Rockland Key ...
The keys are scattered between Lower Sugarloaf Key and Shark Key. U.S. 1 (or the Overseas Highway ) crosses some of the Saddlebunches at mile markers 11.5—15. Just east of Big Coppitt Key and Shark Key , and west of Sugarloaf Shores , is the small community of Bay Point that has fewer than 500 residents, a county park, and two stores.
Just offshore of the Florida Keys along the edge of the Florida Straits is the Florida Reef (also known as the Florida Reef Tract), separated from the keys by the Hawk Channel. The Florida Reef extends 170 miles (270 km) from Fowey Rocks just east of Soldier Key to just south of the Marquesas Keys.
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Card Sound Bridge is a high-rise toll causeway connecting southern Miami-Dade County and northern Monroe County.It is one of only two ways that motorists can leave or enter the Florida Keys (the other is U.S. Route 1).
Cudjoe Key is located in the Florida Keys at (24.664298, -81.482339 U.S. 1 (or the Overseas Highway ) crosses the key at about mile markers 20.5 – 23, between Summerland and Sugarloaf Keys . The highway leads west-southwest 20 miles (32 km) to Key West , east 30 miles (48 km) to Marathon , and a total of 136 miles (219 km) northeast to Miami .