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St. Andrews State Park is a 1,200-acre (4.9 km 2) Florida State Park located three miles (5 km) east of Panama City Beach Florida, off U.S. 98. It is the headquarters of one of the state's five AmeriCorps Florida State Parks chapters.
St. Andrews State Park: Bay: 1,200 acres (486 ha) 1950: Gulf of Mexico Grand Lagoon: Named "America's Best Beach" in 1995 St. George Island State Park: Franklin: 1,962 acres (795 ha) 1963: Gulf of Mexico: Named "6th Best Beach in America" for 2011 after Hurricane Dennis destroyed the facilities in 2005 St. Lucie Inlet Preserve State Park ...
Sigsbee Park, also known as Dredgers Key, is an island about half a mile (800 m) north of Key West island in the lower Florida Keys; administratively it is within the City of Key West, Florida, United States. [1] It is connected to the island of Key West by Sigsbee Road. The island and causeway are part of the Key West Naval Air Station. It is ...
St. Andrew Bay was the location of a large number of saltworks critical for the Confederacy during the American Civil War.Edward Crissey, in command of the steamboat USS Bloomer, which he had been instrumental in stealing from her berth near Geneva, Alabama, helped destroy numerous salt works, doing great damage to the Confederate war effort.
The city of Layton is located on Long Key. The 965-acre (3.9 km 2) state park (3.9 km 2) was dedicated October 1, 1969. U.S. 1 (or the Overseas Highway) crosses the key at approximately mile markers 65.5--71, between Fiesta Key and Conch Key.
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.
The campground and "village" at Knights Key were developed by the Kyle family in the 1960s. Knights Key was a key filming site in the 1989 James Bond film "Licence to Kill" [ 4 ] as well as the 1992 Arnold Schwarzenegger film " True Lies ," and 1994’s Drop Zone, starring Wesley Snipes.
The U.S. state of Florida, due to being a peninsula and its proximity to the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean, has many bridges of varying lengths. The longest bridge in the state is the Seven Mile Bridge located in the Florida Keys. This list includes overwater automobile bridges 2,640 feet (800 m) or longer.