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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.
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The Perdido Key unit of the Gulf Islands National Seashore started with the 421.3-hectare (1,041-acre) Fort McRee site at the extreme eastern end of the island, which was transferred from the US Department of Defense to the National Park Service in 1971.
Perdido Key Island is now about 16 miles (26 km) long with almost 60% of it (9.5 miles) protected in federal or state parks. [6] In 1978 the National Park Service completed purchase of over 1,000 acres (4.0 km 2) of land on Perdido Key from Johnson Beach to Pensacola Pass for about $8 million. For years this area was called Gulf Beach, and it ...
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 Boulevard in Alabama to Perdido Key ...
Perdido Bay is a bay at the mouth of and draining the Perdido River, a designated Outstanding Florida Waters river, in Baldwin County, Alabama and Escambia County, Florida, United States. It is essentially a coastal lagoon enclosed by barrier islands , with an inlet , Perdido Pass .
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.
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.