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The Florida border crosses Florida Point and the barrier islands just east of Alabama Point and Perdido Pass, where the bay empties into the Gulf of Mexico. Perdido Pass also provides maritime access from Perdido Bay to the Intracoastal Waterway and the Gulf. A dolphin at Perdido Bay, near Orange Beach, Alabama
Perdido Pass, separating Alabama Point from Florida Point, is the mouth of the Perdido River.Perdido Pass forms a water passage that connects Perdido Bay with the Gulf of Mexico to the south, in the U.S. state of Alabama, 2 miles (3 km) west of the Alabama/Florida state line.
Early maps indicate that, at the time, the pass was located on or very near to today's official State boundary between Alabama and Florida. Hurricanes and other forces—natural as well as man-made—have moved the pass back and forth several times to where it lies now in Orange Beach, Alabama , approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) from the Florida ...
In 2023, Sombrero Beach in Marathon in the Florida Keys was the only South Florida beach to make the top 25. Five-star luxury: These South Florida hotels, restaurants, spas ranked best in the world
Orange Beach is a resort city in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States. The population was 8,095 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] and according to 2023 census estimates, the city is estimated to have a population of 8,534.
Alabama Welcome sign on the Alabama-Florida border on SR 182 in Orange Beach. SR 182 begins at a private resort in Pine Beach. [2] From this point, the route travels in an easterly course paralleling the shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico through both Gulf Shores and Orange Beach en route to its eastern terminus at the Florida state line. [3]
With its clear, aquamarine waters and powder-soft sand, St. Pete typically falls into a tidy beach vacation that’s only a four-hour drive from Miami. This visit, though, I never dipped my toes ...
State Route 161 (SR 161) is a 1.716-mile-long (2.762 km) state highway near the beaches of Baldwin County near the Gulf of Mexico in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Alabama. The southern terminus of the highway is at an intersection with SR 182 in the south-central part of Orange Beach.