Welcome to Longboat Key
Longboat Key is located on Florida's Gulf Coast just south of the Tampa beckoning beach goers and vacationers with miles and miles of white sugar sand beach. If you and your family are searching for the unique upscale Florida vacation, Longboat Key is your destination.
Stretching between the gorgeous Gulf of Mexico and serene Sarasota Bay, locals and visitors enjoy beautiful Longboat Key sunrises and spectacular Longboat Key sunsets. The waters that surround Longboat Key are home to manatee, dolphins, fish, pelicans, osprey, and a variety of shorebirds. Click Here for the best deals on Longboat Key Hotels!
Longboat Key offers a wide variety of activities such as shelling, biking, shopping, fishing, and golfing on Longboat Key's two championship golf courses with over 50 more golf courses in surrounding Tampa Bay area.
If deep sea fishing is part of your Longboat Key vacation fishing boat charters, with or without a captain, are available as are boat and wave runner rentals. The Gulf waters offer plenty of opportunities for scuba diving, snorkeling or just relaxing while floating on an air mattress.
Longboat Key shops and restaurants are mainly located on the north end of the island. The Sarasota area offers a wide variety of shopping opportunities from national retail chains to upscale local shops and stores.
The Longboat Key Vacation Guide has a wealth of information to help you plan your Longboat Key visit. The Longboat Key Hotel and Resort Page lists Longboat Key's and the surrounding area's most popular accommodations with links to the best prices on the internet.
The Longboat Key Restaurant and Bars Page is an easy to use guide to the best and most popular places to eat and drink in and around Longboat Key. A handy interactive map is included to help you navigate to the establishments you'd like to visit.
Longboat Key Things to Do Page lists deep sea fishing charters, golf courses and more.
What kind of vacation would it be without getting some shopping in. The Longboat Key Shopping Page is a handy references to the area's shopping centers, stores and shops.
To help you make your vacation planning a little easier we have added a Longboat Key Information Page where you find some basic information about Longboat Key, weather and an interactive Google map.
Make Longboat Key your next vacation destination and enjoy the Southern architecture, crystal waters, great shopping and dining in the tropical paradise and understated elegance that is Longboat Key.
Remember, don't forget the sunscreen!
Longboat Key Events
Pittsburg Pirates Spring Training
1611 9th Street West, Bradenton, FL 34205
The Pirates 2012 Spring Training schedule consists of 15 home games and will also feature an intrasquad "Black and Gold" game on Friday, March 2.
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Baltimore Orioles Spring Training
Ed Smith Stadium
2700 12th Street, Sarasota, FL 34237 (941) 893-6300
Single game tickets for all 15 of the Orioles Spring Training games at Ed Smith Stadium go on sale Saturday, January 28 at 10 a.m. ET. These may be purchased online, or at the Box Office or by calling (800) 745-3000. Season, group tickets, suites and other specialty areas are available now by calling (941) 893-6300. Website
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Longboat Key News
Longboat Publix will close to build new store
During the year ahead, Longboat Key residents expect to add considerably more mileage to their trips to the grocery store.
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Birding isn’t just for the birds
More volunteers arrived and coordinator for the Leffis Key-Coquina Beach-north Longboat Key area John van Zandt divided up the area, issued three pages of bird names that were likely to be counted.
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Welcome to winter, Southwest Florida style
After two consecutive abnormally chilly winters, when beach tourists toted hot toddies instead of cold beer, we start winter today with temperatures much more typical for the season — even a little on the warm side.
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Longboat Key Pass Bridge construction begins
The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) will begin repairs to the Longboat Key Pass Bridge on State Road 789 from north of Northshore Road on Longboat Key to south Coquina Park in Bradenton Beach. The work is set to begin this week and continue through April 30, 2012. The construction will be ongoing throughout the day and nighttime hours with a suspension of activity from Dec. 23 through Jan. 2 and Jan. 13-17. A spokesperson for FDOT said nighttime temporary lane closures will be controlled by flaggers and there will be no lane closures Friday through Sunday. During the construction, motorists will have to follow a 35 mph speed limit, but the bridge will not be closed to motorists or boaters.
