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By ferry, seaplane, private boat or a permitted charter: the park is about 70 miles west of Key West and no road or bridge reaches it.
It is seven small islands and the water around them, about 100 square miles in all, and its centerpiece is Fort Jefferson on Garden Key, the largest masonry fort in the western hemisphere. Entry is $15 for each person 16 or older, good for seven days; the ferry ticket includes it, the seaplane collects it before leaving Key West, and private boaters buy it through Recreation.gov. The park does not take cash. Nothing is sold inside the park, so bring your own food and drink. Garden Key has campsites, first come, first served, at $15 a site a night, and coral reefs to snorkel around the island.
01Monroe County. Seven small keys break the surface: Loggerhead at sixty-four acres, Garden Key at forty-two, Bush Key at thirty, and Long, Hospital, Middle and East Keys. Some have vanished and come back with storms.
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02The Overseas Highway, the southern end of U.S. 1, runs 113 miles from Key Largo to Key West and crosses 42 bridges.
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03The only living coral barrier reef in the continental United States runs down the Keys, and John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park off Key Largo in Monroe County is where most people meet it.
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04Three: Everglades, Biscayne and Dry Tortugas. The National Park Service runs eleven sites in the state in all.
Read the answer →Three: Everglades, Biscayne and Dry Tortugas. The National Park Service runs eleven sites in the state in all.
The long one is the Florida National Scenic Trail, about 1,500 miles from Big Cypress National Preserve in the south to Gulf Islands National Seashore at the western end of the Panhandle.
The paved rail-trails, built on old railroad lines, are the long flat rides.
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