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Palm-lined fishing pier at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park, Key Biscayne
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Bill Baggs Cape Florida — Miami's Best Snorkel Beach Is the One Locals Use

Fifteen minutes from downtown Miami, at the tip of Key Biscayne, there's a state park with a 200-year-old lighthouse, a mile of shaded beach, and a limestone rip-rap that's the most underrated shore-snorkel spot in South Florida. Tourists drive past it to get to South Beach. Don't be them.
Crumbling concrete fortification ruins overgrown with sea grape on a sandy barrier island with the Gulf of Mexico in the background
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Egmont Key — A Spanish-American War Fort and a Tortoise Refuge in the Mouth of Tampa Bay

Stand at the mouth of Tampa Bay and look out — that island is Egmont Key. 1898 fortifications, a working 1858 lighthouse, and a federal wildlife refuge full of gopher tortoises. You get there only by boat. The ruins are the kind of place a movie scout would invent and an Army Corps engineer would call ridiculous.