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Alabama and Florida settled the location of the state line in 1953, placing it at the location of the old Perdido Pass. In the early 1940s the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway was constructed between Perdido Key and the mainland, including the dredging of a canal through the neck of the peninsula connecting Perdido Key to the mainland, thus turning ...
Perdido Key State Park is a 247-acre (1.00 km 2) Florida State Park located on a barrier island fifteen miles (24 km) southwest of Pensacola, off S.R. 292, in northwestern Florida. The address is 12301 Gulf Beach Highway.
Perdido Key is an unincorporated community located in Escambia County, Florida, United States, between the cities of Pensacola, Florida and Orange Beach, Alabama. [1] The community is located on and named for Perdido Key, a barrier island in northwest Florida and southeast Alabama. "Perdido" means "lost" in the Spanish and Portuguese languages. [2]
Contains a 73-foot (22.3 m) waterfall, tallest in Florida Fanning Springs State Park: Gilchrist: 1,427 acres (578 ha) 1997: Fanning Springs Suwannee River: A first magnitude spring purchased by the state in 1993 Faver-Dykes State Park: St. Johns: 6,045 acres (2,448 ha) 1950: Pellicer Creek: A wilderness area Florida Caverns State Park: Jackson ...
Florida’s state park system is a bastion of wildness in a state where vast stretches of sugar sand beaches and mangrove forests have long given way to condos, motels and strip mall souvenir shops.
SR 292 westbound through Perdido Key. State Road 292 begins on Perdido Key at a signalized pedestrian crosswalk along the Alabama-Florida state line at the east end of Alabama State Route 182, where the state line itself is used as a tourist attraction and is home to the Flora-Bama bar and dance club. The street name changes from Perdido Beach ...
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Tarkiln Bayou Preserve State Park is a 4,290-acre (17.4 km 2) preserve, a unit of Florida State Park located 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Pensacola, in northwestern Florida. It is home to four species of endangered pitcher plants, as well as other rare and endangered plant species.