Honeymoon Island State Park

Pinellas County · Gulf Coast

A barrier island at Dunedin, reached by causeway, named for the fifty honeymoon cottages a promoter built on it in 1939.

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ABOUT THIS PLACE

The Tocobaga lived here first. The island was called Hog Island until the hurricane of 1921 cut it in two and made Caladesi Island out of the southern half. In the late 1930s Clinton Washburn bought the northern piece, and a conversation with an editor at Life magazine gave him the idea that made the name. Fifty honeymoon cottages went up, and the first newlyweds arrived on May 8, 1940. One hundred and sixty-four couples came before the war turned the island to military use. In the 1960s a developer planned 4,500 homes and 16,000 residents here, dredging as he went, and conservationists stopped the permit renewal in 1969. The state began buying the land in 1974 and finished in 1981, and Honeymoon Island State Recreation Area was created on December 7, 1981. The Osprey Trail runs through slash pine nearly 200 years old. The ferry to Caladesi leaves from here

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