The Navarre Beach Causeway, also called the Navarre Beach Bridge, is a concrete bridge in

Navarre, Florida Navarre is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Santa Rosa County in the northwest Florida Panhandle. It is a major bedroom community for mostly U.S. military personnel, federal civil servants, local population, retirees ...

, connecting the beach and mainland sides of the community. The bridge travels over the

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, which in turn, is part of the

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. The bridge is currently owned and managed by

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, as part of the roads and bridges department. The bridge is a center point of the community and is included in the logos and symbols of many local businesses. The locally famous Navarre Beach sign is located on the mainland base of the bridge. The mainland side also used to contain a toll booth building but tolls were eliminated in 2004. The

Florida Department of Transportation The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) is a decentralized agency charged with the establishment, maintenance, and regulation of public transportation in the state of Florida. The department was formed in 1969. It absorbed the powers of t ...

rates the bridge as "functionally obsolete" due to it not meeting modern and current

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requirements regarding bridge height on the

. On April 23, 2021, it was announced that the Santa Rosa County commissioners had begun the planning process for the replacement of the bridge.

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