Dry Tortugas National Park, FL

Dry Tortugas National Park was dedicated in 1992. Its boundary now marked by an elliptical circuit of 10 large yellow buoys. Touring Fort Jefferson on your own is an option but a ranger-guided tour provides many interesting and unusual facts that will enhance your visit and understanding of life at the fort. It is the largest and best-preserved fort of the 19th-century U.S. coastal defense perimeter (8-foot-thick brick walls, standing 50 feet high and surrounding a 17-acre quad).
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The beautiful Marquesas Keys lie along the route to the Dry Tortugas and are only 21.6 nm west of Key West. An interesting stopover with a fairly well-sheltered but shallow lagoon the Marquesas are made up of numerous small keys arranged in the shape of a South Seas atoll.

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