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Windley Key Fossil Reef State Geologic Site, Key West, FL

  • Address P.O Box 1052, MM 85.5
    Islamorada, FL 33036
    United States
  • Phone number+1 305 664 2540
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  • Neighborhood : Upper Keys
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Windley Key is one the few places where you can see a coral reef that isn't underwater. This one rose to the surface eons ago and here it sits in fossilized splendor. Railroad entrepreneur Henry M. Flagler's construction crews quarried the rock from this site. Today, you can visit the Environmental Education Center, where regional history is chronicled. Nature trails wander through mangrove hammocks and in the quarrying area, you can take rubbings of ferns and coral. Quarry trails admission is $1.50, the educational center is free.

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sparky p.

(Rating: 4.0) 

by sparky p. on April 23, 2009

Today it's largely overgrown, though the state has maintained a few of the "streets" and there are some plaques detailing the events surrounding the...

Peter M.

(Rating: 4.0) 

by Peter M. on August 26, 2008

Indian Key State Historic Site, MM 77.5 oceanside. Accessible by boat, this island once housed the largest population between St. Augustine and Key West. In...

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