FLORIDA · COUNTY BEACH DIRECTORY
Monroe County beaches
Browse all 26 Monroe County, Florida beach guides, with parking, fees, facilities, rules, activities and the countywide public access directory.
Every beach guide in Monroe County
Smathers Beach
Key West, Florida
Atlantic roadside beach with restrooms, showers and volleyball. Choose it for a conventional Key West beach day; account for hourly parking and restroom hours that differ from beach hours.
Higgs Beach
Key West, Florida
An Atlantic-side beach with city-listed showers, restrooms, rental services and nearby dining. Useful for a visit with services close by; the current city opening time conflicts with older county and ordinance wording.
Rest Beach
Key West, Florida
A small beach and shaded picnic stop at C.B. Harvey Park. Choose it for a shorter shoreline visit; restroom operating rules do not prove that a toilet is physically at this beach.
Key West Dog Beach
Key West, Florida
A small shoreline specifically allowing dogs to swim. Useful for a dog-focused visit; the city animal exception requires adult control and does not by itself establish off-leash permission.
South Beach · Key West
Key West, Florida
The public ocean-side beach at the southern end of Duval Street. Useful for a shoreline stop during an Old Town visit; nearby resort facilities are private and separate from public beach access.
Simonton Street Beach
Key West, Florida
A small Gulf-side downtown beach with city-listed restrooms and a recreational boat ramp. Useful for an Old Town beach stop; swimming and boat launching are different activities, and city listings disagree on facility hours.
Fort Zachary Taylor beach
Key West, Florida
A state-park beach with rocky shoreline, day-use facilities and a historic fort nearby. Choose it for beach time combined with history; bring footwear suitable for the shore and account for park entry fees.
Boca Chica Beach
Lower Keys, Florida
A less-developed county-listed shore with explicit warnings about neighboring Navy property. Choose it only with a clear lawful arrival plan; nearby federal lots are not approved public beach entrances.
Veterans’ Memorial Beach
Little Duck Key, Florida
A shallow-water county beach useful for a short Lower Keys stop. Portable toilet provision is documented while the permanent restroom and one pavilion need renovation.
Sombrero Beach
Marathon, Florida
A sandy Atlantic beach with shaded park space, showers, restrooms and a playground. Choose it for a beach-and-park visit; active turtle nests create localized restrictions and the city lists no RV or bus spaces.
Coco Plum Beach
Marathon, Florida
A natural shoreline beside wetland with a restroom and pavilion. Choose it for a simpler shoreline visit rather than a resort setting; turtle nesting remains a local consideration.
Curry Hammock State Park beach
Middle Keys, Florida
A state-park Atlantic beach beside protected mangrove, hammock and seagrass habitat. Useful for a beach visit combined with paddling or birding; beach pet exclusions and park entry fees apply.
Long Key State Park beach
Long Key, Florida
A shallow state-park shoreline with designated swimming and snorkeling areas and birding. Choose it for a nature-focused day visit; dated notices list primitive camping and Golden Orb Trail as closed for construction, with possible tidal-flooding restrictions on day use.
Harry Harris protected beach
Upper Keys, Florida
A county park with a protected bathing area and public restrooms. Useful for a park-based swimming visit; beach pets are excluded and nonresident weekend/holiday vehicle fees differ from boat-ramp charges.
Anne’s Beach
Islamorada, Florida
A shallow-water beach with a boardwalk, picnic pavilions, north-lot restroom and leashed-dog permission. Useful for a wading and shoreline stop; a boardwalk is not proof of wheelchair access into the water.
Library Beach
Islamorada, Florida
A small beach overlooking a mangrove-lined creek. Useful for a compact waterside visit; this is not an open-ocean surf beach, and the restroom closes before the park.
Cannon Beach
Key Largo, Florida
An artificial swimming beach with designated shallow snorkeling and placed wreck artifacts. Choose it for a park-based shore visit; the offshore coral reef requires a separate boat excursion.
Far Beach
Key Largo, Florida
A separate artificial beach with palm shade near the Mangrove Trail area. Useful for a shaded park-based stop; offshore reef tours and Cannon’s placed wreck artifacts are not Far Beach shore features.
Calusa Beach
Bahia Honda, Florida
The park’s Florida Bay-facing beach, distinct from its Atlantic beaches. Useful for a beach visit with Calusa-area picnic facilities; park capacity closures and channel-current warnings remain important.
Loggerhead Beach · Bahia Honda
Bahia Honda, Florida
An Atlantic-facing shallow beach in Bahia Honda State Park. Useful for a beach visit with shared day-use facilities; the nearby kayak launch does not permit paddling inside buoyed swimming areas.
Sandspur Beach
Bahia Honda, Florida
An Atlantic-facing named beach with parking along the beach and a centralized restroom. Useful for a sandy-shore visit; campground bathhouse notices must not automatically be applied to the beach restroom.
Founders Park beach
Islamorada, Florida
A maintained shallow Florida Bay beach with showers, restrooms, shade and picnic facilities. Useful for a family park visit; beach dogs are excluded and pool lifeguards do not establish beach staffing.
North Beach · Garden Key
Garden Key, Dry Tortugas, Florida
A separately named Garden Key swimming beach reached by boat or seaplane. Choose it for an island visit combined with Fort Jefferson; there is no road arrival or lifeguard, and food and water must be planned in advance.
South Beach · Garden Key
Garden Key, Dry Tortugas, Florida
A separately named Garden Key swimming beach reached by arranged island transport. Useful during a Fort Jefferson day trip or primitive camping stay; no beach restaurant or road access exists.
East Beach · Garden Key
Garden Key, Dry Tortugas, Florida
A named Garden Key swimming shore beside the Fort Jefferson island setting. Useful as part of a boat or seaplane visit; transport limits, supplies and designated swimming areas matter more than mainland parking.
Loggerhead Key swimming beach
Loggerhead Key, Dry Tortugas, Florida
A remote permitted island visit with a designated northwest swimming/snorkeling area. Choose it only with private transport and a permit plan; the 25-person daily cap, signed landings and boathouse exclusion apply.
Destination guides and access points
A named beach guide describes a visitor destination. The separate access directory preserves individual streets, walkovers, ramps and park entrances so smaller public routes are not lost.