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The service is a licensed National Park Service concessioner, [1] and the only provider of scheduled ferry access to the Dry Tortugas for a ten-year term through 2020. [2] Built by Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, the Yankee Freedom III catamaran is powered by twin Caterpillar, Inc. 3412 engines that give the ferry a maximum speed of 30 knots. [3]
For the Southport-Fort Fisher ferry, the rates are $1 for pedestrians, $2 for bicycles, $3 for motorcycles, scooters, ATVs, golf carts, or three-wheeled vehicles, $7 for four wheeled vehicles up to 20 feet, as well as motorcycles with sidecars or trailer, $14 for vehicles 20-40 feet, and $28 for vehicles 40-65 feet.
Delnor-Wiggins Pass State Park is a Florida state park located on a barrier island on Florida's southwest coast near Naples, Florida, 6 miles west of I-75 in North Naples.The Cocohatchee River and the Gulf of Mexico are accessible from the park, which contains a hard-bottom reef.
Visitation at Dry Tortugas reached a peak of 83,704 in 2000, and averaged about 63,000 per year in the period from 2007 to 2016; [2] as of 2017, an average of one million people visited Everglades National Park each year. [3] The area, at that time, received more than 84,000 visitors for snorkeling, swimming, sport fishing and touring historic ...
Dry Tortugas National Park is a national park of the United States located about 68 miles (109 km) west of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico, in the United States. The park preserves Fort Jefferson and the several Dry Tortugas islands, the westernmost and most isolated of the Florida Keys .
U.S. researchers have concluded that the 17th-century remains of sunken British warship HMS Tyger rest below the surface in Dry Tortugas National Park. Researchers conclusively ID British warship ...
Dry Tortugas National Park — located in the Florida Keys of southern Florida. A UNESCO Biosphere reserve , and on the National Register of Historic Places in Monroe County . The main article for this category is Dry Tortugas National Park .
USS Tortuga (LSD-46) is a Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy.She was the second Navy ship to be named for the Dry Tortugas, a group of desert coral islets 60 miles (97 km) west of Key West, Florida.