Pensacola Beach is an

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located on Santa Rosa Island, a

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, in Escambia County,

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. It is situated south of

Pensacola Pensacola () is the westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle, and the county seat and only incorporated city of Escambia County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 54,312. Pensacola is the principal ci ...

(and

Gulf Breeze Gulf Breeze is a city in Santa Rosa County, Florida. It is a suburb of Pensacola, and is in the Pensacola Metropolitan Area. The population estimate was 6,900 in 2020. Gulf Breeze is located just north of Pensacola Beach, and south of Pensaco ...

connected via bridges spanning to the

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and then to the island) in the

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. As of the 2000 census, the community had a total population of 2,738. It has been described as "famous" for its ultra-

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es. Pensacola Beach occupies land bound by a 1947 deed from the

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that it be administered in the public interest by the county or leased, but never "disposed"; its businesses and residents are thus long-term leaseholders and not property owners. Pensacola Beach is part of the

– Ferry Pass– Brent

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, which includes all of Escambia and

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counties.

History

: ''Also see:

History of Pensacola, Florida The history of Pensacola, Florida, begins long before the Spanish claimed founding of the modern city in 1698. The area around present-day Pensacola was inhabited by Native American peoples thousands of years before the historical era. The histo ...

.'' Francisco Maldonado, a lieutenant"The Spanish Presence in Northwest Florida – 1513 to 1705" (history),

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, 2006, webpage
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. under

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, visited the area during the early Spanish exploration of North America. He anchored in

Pensacola Bay Pensacola Bay is a bay located in the northwestern part of Florida, United States, known as the Florida Panhandle. The bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, is located in Escambia County and Santa Rosa County, adjacent to the city of Pensacol ...

for the winter of 1539–1540. In 1559, Don

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y Arellano led the first settlement of the region. His 11 ships, with 1500 settlers, anchored in the bay and established its colony on the site of today's

Naval Air Station Pensacola Naval Air Station Pensacola or NAS Pensacola (formerly NAS/KNAS until changed circa 1970 to allow Nassau International Airport, now Lynden Pindling International Airport, to have IATA code NAS), "The Cradle of Naval Aviation", is a United State ...

. A

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decimated the

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a few weeks later, killing hundreds and sinking five ships. Suffering long-term famine and fighting, this first settlement was finally abandoned in 1561. A

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was constructed on Santa Rosa Island in 1722 near the location of the more recent

Fort Pickens Fort Pickens is a pentagonal historic United States military fort on Santa Rosa Island in the Pensacola, Florida, area. It is named after American Revolutionary War hero Andrew Pickens. The fort was completed in 1834 and was one of the few ...

. Hurricanes in 1741 and 1752 forced its relocation to the mainland. Pensacola Beach for many years remained largely undeveloped. The Casino Resort was the first tourist destination constructed on the island (at the present day location of Casino Beach) where a variety of special events including

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, fishing tournaments, and

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matches were held from the 1930s through 1950s. With a bar, tennis courts, bath houses, and a restaurant, it was a popular resort until it eventually closed in the 1960s. The entire island was initially owned by the

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. In order to promote infrastructure and growth on the island, the federal government leased the lands now encompassing Pensacola Beach to the Santa Rosa Island Authority (SRIA), which in turn has leased the property to homeowners. As a result, all structures on the island have 99-year renewable leases with the SRIA rather than ownership of the land itself.

Geography

Pensacola Beach is located at , on the barrier island of Santa Rosa. It is bordered to the south by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by

Santa Rosa Sound Santa Rosa Sound is a sound connecting Pensacola Bay and Choctawhatchee Bay in Florida. The northern shore consists of the Fairpoint Peninsula and portions of the mainland in Santa Rosa County and Okaloosa County. It is bounded to the south by S ...

and Pensacola Bay, and to the east and west by the

Gulf Islands National Seashore Gulf Islands National Seashore offers recreation opportunities and preserves natural and historic resources along the Gulf of Mexico barrier islands of Florida and Mississippi. The protected regions include mainland areas and parts of seven i ...

Climate

While generally cooler than most of peninsular Florida, Pensacola Beach maintains a more stable

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year round than inland areas of Pensacola and Escambia County. As such, winter lows are several degrees warmer than Pensacola proper and summer highs are generally cooler as a result of the surrounding waters. As with many islands, Pensacola Beach enjoys

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which begin around noon and end around sunset in the summer, and there are often afternoon

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s. The average temperature ranges from in January to in July.

Hurricanes

As a community located on a low-lying barrier island, Pensacola Beach is vulnerable to

s. Landfalling storms have been known to drive

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over the island, damaging or destroying man-made structures and causing beach erosion. In 1995, two hurricanes made landfall on the island. Hurricane Erin made landfall in August, and

Hurricane Opal Hurricane Opal was a large and powerful Category 4 hurricane that caused severe and extensive damage along the northern Gulf Coast of the United States in October 1995. The fifteenth named storm, ninth hurricane and strongest tropical cyclon ...

blasted the island just two months later, leveling some

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and destroying a number of homes. On September 16, 2004,

Hurricane Ivan Hurricane Ivan was a large, long-lived, Cape Verde hurricane that caused widespread damage in the Caribbean and United States. The cyclone was the ninth named storm, the sixth hurricane and the fourth major hurricane of the active 2004 Atlan ...

devastated the Pensacola Beach area, destroying more than 650 homes and damaging many others. Ivan was the last hurricane to make Florida landfall in 2004, one of the most destructive hurricane seasons in decades. On July 10, 2005,

Hurricane Dennis Hurricane Dennis was an early-forming major hurricane in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico during the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. Dennis was the fourth named storm, second hurricane, and first major hurricane of the season. F ...

made landfall between Pensacola Beach and eastern

Navarre Beach 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 ...

. However, as with Erin several years earlier, the damage on Pensacola Beach was not nearly as extensive as predicted. In 2020, Pensacola Beach took the brunt of the storm from

Hurricane Sally Hurricane Sally was a destructive and slow-moving Atlantic hurricane, which was the first hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. state of Alabama since Ivan in 2004, coincidentally on the same date in the same place. The eighteenth named storm, ...

, seeing widespread wind damage, storm surge flooding, and over 20 inches (510 mm) of rainfall. A section of the

Pensacola Bay Bridge The Pensacola Bay Bridge, also known locally as the Three-Mile Bridge, runs between downtown Pensacola, Florida, and Gulf Breeze, Florida. It carries two to four lanes of U.S. Highway 98 across Pensacola Bay. History The bridge, which is dedic ...

(known to locals as the Three Mile Bridge) was destroyed during Hurricane Sally. The island has been subject to mandatory evacuation orders during some of these hurricanes.

Oil spill

The ''

Deepwater Horizon ''Deepwater Horizon'' was an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible offshore drilling rig owned by Transocean and operated by BP. On 20 April 2010, while drilling at the Macondo Prospect, a blowout caused an explosion ...

'', a BP-operated oil-drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico off the

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coast, exploded April 20, 2010, eventually releasing almost 5 million barrels of

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into the Gulf before being capped on August 4, 2010. Oil from the explosion did not reach Pensacola beaches until June 4, 2010. Crews posted along Escambia County's coastline quickly cleaned much of the oil that was evident along the beaches.

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in the Pensacola Beach area was adversely affected during the summer of 2010. ''

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'' reported that swimmers at Pensacola Beach "encountered an oil sheen and children picked up tar blobs as big as tennis balls."

Public transportation

Escambia County Area Transit Escambia County Area Transit (ECAT) is the transit agency that serves the greater Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida Escambia County is the westernmost and oldest county in the U.S. state of Florida. It is in the state's northwestern corner ...

(ECAT) provides bus transportation seven days per week.

Government and infrastructure

Escambia County Fire Rescue operates Fire Station #13 in Pensacola Beach. The

Escambia County Sheriff's Office The Escambia County Sheriff's Office (ECSO) or Escambia Sheriff's Office (ESO) is the primary law enforcement agency of unincorporated Escambia County, Florida, Escambia County and the town of Century, Florida, Century. ECSO is headed by a sherif ...

has Precinct 1 covering Pensacola Beach, operated out of the Pensacola Beach Sheriff's Substation.

Attractions

Casino Beach

The hub of beach activity, Casino Beach, on Pensacola Beach, is named after the original casino that stood in this location and is a popular beach access. The location is dotted with restaurants and family entertainment areas. It is situated next to the Pensacola Beach Gulf Pier, which at 1,471 feet is described as the longest pier on the Gulf of Mexico. The beach is equipped with lifeguard stands and station, volleyball courts, snack bar and large parking lot. The Gulfside Pavilion hosts a "Bands on the Beach" concert series during the summer tourist season.

Gulf Pier

The Gulf Pier has been called an iconic part of Pensacola Beach by residents. It is maintained by Escambia County Public Works and the Santa Rosa Island Authority. In addition to fishing, the pier offers sightseeing marine wildlife such as

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s and

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s. It has been closed and renovated a number of times due to storm and hurricane damage.

Blue Angels

Pensacola beach is known for flyovers by the

Blue Angels The Blue Angels is a flight demonstration squadron of the United States Navy.

demonstration team from the nearby

Pensacola Naval Air Station Naval Air Station Pensacola or NAS Pensacola (formerly NAS/KNAS until changed circa 1970 to allow Nassau International Airport, now Lynden Pindling International Airport, to have IATA code NAS), "The Cradle of Naval Aviation", is a United State ...

base. An annual

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is held each summer.

Quietwater Beach Boardwalk

The Boardwalk is on the

side of the island, directly across from Casino Beach. Retail shops, restaurants, nightclubs, street musicians and sidewalk artists line it. The Boardwalk has a large sea shell stage where concerts are held several times a year.

Fort Pickens

Located at the western end of Santa Rosa Island,

was completed in 1834 and used until

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, when modern weapons made traditional coastal defenses obsolete. It is open to the public as part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore, with a fee required for entry; campsites are also available for a fee.

Architecture

Commercial Buildings

Pensacola Beach is home to some of the tallest buildings between

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and

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. The list below ranks the buildings in height. # Portofino Towers (). # Verandas Tower (). # Beach Club (). #Hilton Pensacola Beach Resort (). # Santa Rosa Towers (). #Emerald Isle Condominium (). #Santa Rosa Towers (). #Tristan Towers ().

Landmarks

Pensacola Beach Welcome Sign

Another historical landmark is the vintage Pensacola Beach Sign just outside Pensacola Beach in

. It was a 60s-era

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that directs drivers towards Pensacola Beach's "scenic" views of the coast of the

, as well as towards its white sand beaches, motels, and restaurants. The sign was renovated in 2019 to look exactly like the old sign but feature

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instead of

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Beach ball water tower

The

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painted

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is an iconic symbol of Pensacola Beach. Today the water tower is no longer in use, but has been preserved by the city as a historical landmark.

Novelty houses

Pensacola Beach is home to several

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houses, which are homes built with unusual shapes for purposes such as

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or to copy other famous buildings in

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. One of the novelty houses in Pensacola is the hous
"Dome of a Home"
built in 2002 using a

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in the form of a large concrete dome, designed to structurally withstand storm surge and hurricane-force winds of . It withstood hurricanes

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and

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. It is also known as the " Flintstone Home" due to the fact it resembles a rock home. Another novelty house is the house with a

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-shaped

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attached as a second story. This Futuro house is sometimes called the "Spaceship House." It was designed in the 1960s by Finnish architect

Matti Suuronen Matti Suuronen (14 June 1933 – 16 April 2013) was a Finnish architect and designer who is best known for designing the Futuro and Venturo homes in the Casa Finlandia series. The marvelous design of the Futuro went into production in both F ...

. About a hundred of them were constructed.

Education

There is one school on Pensacola Beach. The Pensacola Beach Elementary School, within the

Escambia County School District The Escambia County School District (ECSD) is the organization responsible for the administration of public schools in all of Escambia County, Florida, in the United States. The district currently administers 35 elementary schools, nine middle sch ...

(ECSD), is for children from kindergarten through fifth grade. This school has an enrollment ranging from 120 to 140 students. All elementary-school age children on Pensacola Beach are eligible to attend the school. The first year the school was open, for the school year 1977–1978, classes were held in an empty A-frame house. The Pensacola Beach Volunteer Fire Department building was also used in aiding the teachers and administrators. In November 1977, four portable buildings were moved to the present site. They school has received the 5 Star School award since 1998. In 2001 the Pensacola Beach Elementary lost its direct district operational control and became a

charter school A charter school is a school that receives government funding but operates independently of the established state school system in which it is located. It is independent in the sense that it operates according to the basic principle of auto ...

.Home
. Pensacola Beach Elementary School. Retrieved on January 31, 2017. "After completing Fifth Grade at the Beach School, most children attend Middle and High School in nearby Gulf Breeze which is part of the Santa Rosa County School District." In September 2004

destroyed an office and four classrooms. Jeff Castleberry, the principal, argued that ECSD would have closed the school if it had direct operational control. The costs to fix the damage at Pensacola Beach Elementary was $1.5 million. The campus is adjacent to the

and is built on stilt. The school has been described as one of several Escambia County charter schools that "exemplify charter schools at their finest". Pensacola Beach is zoned for (assigned to) a different ECSD elementary school, Suter Elementary School, as well as Workman Middle School, and

Pensacola High School Pensacola High School is a secondary school located near downtown Pensacola, Florida, United States. The school celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2001 and graduated its 100th class of seniors in 2005; however, the school has not always been at ...

. However, most middle- and high-school students in Pensacola Beach attend Gulf Breeze Middle School and

Gulf Breeze High School Gulf Breeze High School is a public secondary school located at 675 Gulf Breeze Parkway in Gulf Breeze, Florida. It is one of eleven high schools of the Santa Rosa County School District and the only high school in the city of Gulf Breeze. For ...

, operated by

Santa Rosa County School District Santa Rosa County District Schools (SRCDS), also known as Santa Rosa County School District, is the organization responsible for the administration of public schools in Santa Rosa County, Florida. The district currently administers 15 elementary ...

. In addition, some attend Pensacola-area

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Religion

References

External links

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Tourism website

Pensacola Beach Preservation & Historical Society

Pensacola Beach Webcam
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