Anclote Key Preserve State Park
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Anclote Key Preserve State Park is a Florida State Park and historic site, located on Anclote Key three miles (5 km) off Tarpon Springs, Florida, Tarpon Springs along the Atlantic coastal plain. This state park is only accessible by boat. Amenities include primitive camping on the northern portion of the island as well as picnic pavilions and grills. Wildlife includes the oystercatcher, American oystercatcher, bald eagle and piping plover. The park is unique in that a Anclote Keys Light, lighthouse, built in 1887, is on the southern end of the key in Pinellas County, Florida. Three Rooker Island, south of Anclote and part of the preserve, remains an important Gulf Coast beach-nesting bird sanctuary.


Recreational activities

The park has such amenities as beaches, birding, primitive camping, boating, fishing, hiking, picnic, picknicking areas and wildlife viewing.


References

Florida Online Park Guide -Anclote Key Preserve State Park, Southwest- Visit our Florida State Parks.
Online. January 7, 2006.


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