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Empty white-sand beach at Caladesi Island with dunes and beach grass in foreground, Gulf horizon
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Caladesi Island — Florida's Boat-Only #1 Beach No One Talks About

Three miles of empty white sand named #1 USA Beach by Dr. Beach. No bridge, no buildings, no concessions — just a $16 ferry from Honeymoon Island, hourly, or your own boat. The Florida the developers never got their hands on.
Historic coastal artillery cannon at Fort De Soto Park on Mullet Key, Florida
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Fort De Soto — Florida's 7-Mile Beach, a Spanish-American Fort, and Pinellas's Best-Kept Secret

Seven miles of beach, a 1898 coastal artillery fort with the only 12-inch mortars still mounted in the U.S., one of Florida's best campgrounds, and a ferry to Egmont Key — all in a Pinellas County park, not a state park. Most Florida tourists never make it down here.
Empty Honeymoon Island beach with white sand, slash pines and dunes against blue Gulf horizon
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Honeymoon Island — Pinellas County's White-Sand Gulf Escape

Four miles of quartz-white Gulf beach, fifty osprey nests visible from one trail, and a causeway you can drive across — Honeymoon Island is the easiest pristine Florida beach to reach, and somehow the locals still have it mostly to themselves.