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Fort Myers Beach

Fort Myers Beach Pier is a popular family destination with a full day of activities including fishing, volleyball, restaurants, and shopping. You have to pay to park, either metered or $6 and up per day. Relax in the quiet ocean waters of the Gulf of Mexico while listening to island music from a local restaurant and bar. Stroll along the many shops near and around the Pier taking in the sights, sounds, and smells of South Florida. Visit Percy Warner Park for scenic Tennessee drives, hiking, biking, esquestrian trails, and much more.

The wide sandy beach of Fort Myers Beach Pier.

Lovers Key State Park is listed as one of the top 10 beaches in the United States. Lovers Key is one of four barrier islands. It offers boating, fishing, swimming, and shelling. Seasonally caught fish are trout, redfish, snook, and tarpon. Lovers Key State Park has parking on the bay side and ocean side. We parked our RV at Lovers Key State Park ocean side which is a dirt parking lot. It is home to West Indian manatees, bottlenose dolphins, roseate spoonbills, marsh rabbits, and bald eagles. The beach is two miles long and is accessible by boardwalk or tram. It is popular for shelling, swimming, picnicking, and sunbathing. Black Island has over five miles of trails for hiking and bicycling. You can launch your boat from the park's boat ramp from the bay side. The park's concession offers boat and fishing tours, as well as bicycle, canoe, and kayak rentals.

Lovers Key State Park beach.

There is no RV parking in Fort Myers Beach. We parked our RV at Lovers Key and on some days four miles south at Dog Beach. There is an RV park in Fort Myers Beach called the Red Coconut. They fill up quickly and I believe there is a waiting list in the winter. The terrific thing is that they have a few spots directly on the beach...paradise baby.

Jason's thoughts - Kids will love the abundance of ice cream shops, live music, over the ocean pier fishing, jet ski rentals, boats beaching on the sand, volleyball, crowds of young people, magicians, dog walkers, and general higher activity level of the Pier portion of For Myers Beach. Worth seeing once, always the most crowded portion and parking is a 100 yards from the water. Expensive rentals and limited availabilty during the high season. Good memories here with our children Sarah, Joshua and Benjamin. Lovers Key is DEFINETLY worth seeing, take a nice long walk up to two hours one way, much more secluded, and almost as pristine as Playalinda.
"I don't want to go to the mall with these takelongers" jokes Josh about Jason dropping him at the mall to meet his mom.

Kelly's thoughts - Well, my favorite beaches are on the east coast of Florida because I surf and there is absolutely no surfing on the west coast of Florida. I did enjoy the difference of the west coast though, mostly because of the abundance of shells. I also found a nice running path, that story follows:

From the RV, Jason dropped me off in Fort Myers Beach whenever I said "OK stop here". I was all decked out with sun glasses, visor, sun block, my (can't leave home without it) Garmin, water and Cliff Shot. I had a terrific long run from Fort Myers Beach to Dog Beach in Bonita Springs. I started running on the flat sandy beach about four miles to the Holiday Inn. From the beach I ran towards the Holiday Inn to a trail that runs along Estero Lagoon which is a famous bird watchers paradise. The grassy, sandy trail goes past condos and houses. When it ended I crossed Estero Blvd. to the sidewalk running over Big San Carlos Pass Bridge, past Lovers Key, and over Little San Carlos Pass Bridge. Then I ran through the stiff grass along the bay side of Fort Myers Beach into Bonita Springs to Dog Beach. This is where I met up with Jason and the kids at the RV. The total run is 8 miles and I did this run three times. The last time I thought, this is the best long run I have ever had and this is the last time I will be doing this...sad.
"Curry up" said Kelly after meeting friends from India.

Travel Info - Head west off I-75 x 131 Daniels Road. Follow signs to Fort Myers Beach. Estero Blvd. is the two lane road that runs along the beach. It is very congested from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. on Estero Blvd. going north leaving Fort Myers Beach. It can take up to two hours to travel five miles during this heavy traffic period. So, roll down the windows, put the top down on the convertable and enjoy the ocean breeze, island pace, and Florida sun. Map location of Fort Myers Beach.

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