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Turtle Beach is a public beach located on South Siesta Key in Sarasota, Florida.Turtle Beach is known for the large number of sea turtles that nest on the shore. [1] It has roughly 2,600 feet of beachfront that is accessible to the public as well as camping, picnic areas, [1] [2] and a children's play area.
Siesta Key is a barrier island off the southwest coast of the U.S. state of Florida, located between Roberts Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.A portion of it lies within the city boundary of Sarasota, but the majority of the key is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sarasota County.
The John Ringling Causeway carries SR 789 over Sarasota Bay, from Sarasota to St. Armands Key and Lido Key. The 65-foot-tall (20 m) bridge, built in 2003, is a segmental box girder bridge named after John Ringling, one of the founders of the Ringling Brothers Circus and resident of the Sarasota area.
The name "Sleeping Turtles" comes from descriptions on naval maps from the 1800s of the Myakka River. The park includes floodplain swamps, pine flatwoods, upland mixed forests and seasonal wetlands; habitats for gopher tortoises, swallow-tailed kites, alligators and song birds. The preserve can be toured on five miles (eight kilometers) of ...
Stretching 148 miles (238 km) across the Florida peninsula, State Road 70 (SR 70) spans five Florida counties and straddles the northern boundaries of two more.Its western terminus is at US 41 (14th Street West) south of Bradenton (Manatee County); its eastern terminus is an intersection of Virginia Avenue and South Fourth Street (U.S. Route 1/SR 5) in Fort Pierce (St. Lucie County).
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When designated in 1945, SR 683 ran from Sarasota along Bradenton Road and 15th Street to SR 70 in Oneco, with 15th Street continuing north of here as part of SR 70. 15th Street and Bradenton Road in Sarasota were originally a continuous road known as Range Road. Range Road was built in 1912 and it was the first road connecting Bradenton and ...
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