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Don Pedro Island State Park is simply paradise, just a short boat ride off Florida’s southwest coast. Located between Knight Island and Little Gasparilla Island, Don Pedro Island is accessible only by private boat.

Accessible only by boat, a quick ride allows you to enjoy pristine beaches, lush mangroves and an offshore reef. A boardwalk takes visitors across mangrove forests and hammocks of live oaks, cabbage palms, paradise trees and wild limes to a neatly preserved Atlantic beach.

A unique mixture of coastal and tropical hammock and mangrove forest, this barrier island provides a haven for several rare or endangered native tropical and coastal plant species.

At the southwest corner of Charlotte County, there is a mile of beach where seashells and shark teeth wash up, and anglers fish the surf for prize catches. Visitors come to this secluded beach to enjoy the year-round swimming and sunbathing.