Naples Area Things to do

Naples Princess

Come cruise with us aboard the most elegant luxury yacht in all of southwest Florida You will experience the spectacular homes, breathtaking sites and natural beauty of Naples Bay and Port Royal.

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Naples Botanical Garden

Garden Mission:
The Naples Botanical Garden will soon be a paradise that combines lovely cultivated tropical gardens with beautifully restored natural habitats.

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Naples Pier

Built in 1888 as a freight and passenger dock. In its early days, the pier was lined with narrow gauge train rails that spanned the entire length of the structure, designed to transport baggage and freight to waiting vessels that would travel across the Atlantic or to other points in the Caribbean or along the Eastern seaboard.

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Naples Zoo

The Naples Zoo may not be the biggest zoo in the country. But it does offer some specialized exhibits you won’t find elsewhere.

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Tin-city

Shop In Tin City, more than 40 eclectic, local shops offer you merchandise and mementos unlike any other. From swimsuits to scrimshaw, form crafts to crystal, from tee shirts to fine jewelry, and everything in between, Tin City lets you take a bit of Naples home with you.

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Barefoot Beach State Preserve

Barefoot Beach Preserve Park has a 356 parking spaces, one-mile nature trail, showers, picnic area and a concession are where equipment may be rented and food and drink is available for purchase.

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Bonita Beach Park

Located near the beautiful Northern tip of Bonita Beach, the park includes a playground, volleyball court and picnic shelters.

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Clam Pass Park

This park boasts 35 acres of coastal habitat and preserves that habitat by providing beach access from a three-quarter-mile boardwalk to the sandy beach.

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Collier-Seminole State Park

Collier-Seminole State Park offers visitors both a glimpse of the Everglades and a dense tropical tree forest. . The over 7,000 acres of the park are partially located within one of the largest mangrove swamps in both South Florida, and the world.

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Delnor-Wiggins Pass State Park

Delnor-Wiggins Pass State Park offers one of the most unspoiled beaches in the world. This beautiful beach setting welcomes visitors a magnificent glimpse of the Gulf of Mexico, as well as shorebirds and many forms of wildlife.

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Estero Bay Preserve State Park

Florida’s first aquatic preserve is also one of the state’s most productive estuaries. The bay hosts many forms of wildlife, including the bald eagle.

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Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park

PLANT & ANIMAL LIFE:
The mixed bald-cypresses, royal palms and abundant epiphytic plants make the forest of this park unique. The Fakahatchee Strand is about 20 miles long and from three to five miles wide.

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Keewaydin Island

Keewaydin Island is one of the best amenities southwest Florida has to offer. Formally known as Key Island, “Keewaydin” is one of Florida’s largest unbridged barrier islands, and most of it is protected within the Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve boundary.

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Koreshan State Historic Site

The Koreshan State Historic Site is located in Lee County, Florida on U.S. Highway 41 at Corkscrew Road.

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Lovers Key State Park

Lovers Key State Park, a 712-acre Florida State Park, on Lover’s Key and three other barrier islands – Black Island, Inner and Long Key.

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Lowdermilk Park

Lowdermilk Park is one of Naples’ premier beachfront parks.
Our park has plenty of metered and unmetered parking spaces, a concession stand, sand volleyball courts, two children’s playgrounds, picnic tables, benches, restroom and shower facilities, and two gazebos for rent.

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Mound Key

Mound Key Archaeological State Park is located in Estero Bay, near the mouth of the Estero River. The park systems manages 113 of the island’s 125 acres.

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The Conservancy of Southwest Florida

Conservancy of SW Florida Nature Center
We invite you to visit or come back to see what’s new at our world-class Nature Center.

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The Edge Johnny Nocera Skate Park

The Edge Johnny Nocera Skate Park is located in Fleischmann Park next to the Community Center on the “edge” of Fleischmann Blvd and Goodlette Rd. The skate park is over 40,000 square feet and offers a mix of wood and concrete ramps.

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Vanderbilt Beach Park

As a prime location near upscale hotels and the popular North Naples area ,Vanderbilt Beach Park is one of the most popular beach accesses. It offers generous space for its visitors, gorgeous white sand, sea oats and rest room access.

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Audubon’s Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary

Our goal is to conserve and rebuild nature’s ecosystems. Our concentration is on the habitat of birds and other wildlife.

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Naples Preserve

The Naples Preserve is set on 9 1/2 acres where U.S. 41 and Fleischmann Boulevard meet. The site offers protection for two unique Florida Upland Habitats: Pine Flatwoods and Oak Rosemary Scrubs.

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Rookery Bay Nat Estuarine

The Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve’s mission is to provide a basis for informed stewardship of Southwest Florida’s estuaries through education and research.

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Naples Historical Society

Background on Naples Historical Society
Naples Historical Society, Inc. is a 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of Naples history and heritage for the community and future generations to enjoy.

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Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum

The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum and the islands of Sanibel / Captiva are a match made in heaven: the only museum in the North America entirely dedicated to shells and the shelling capital of the Western Hemisphere.

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Collier County Museum

Nestled on five acres of native Florida gardens, the Naples Museum showcases two historic cottages, a working archaeology lab, a Seminole village, tropical orchid house, wildlife displays, a 1910 steam logging locomotive and a recreated Seminole War fort.

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Golisano Children’s Museum

The Museum is SW Florida’s first museum devoted for children and families to learn through play. With hands-on exhibit galleries, the accessible museum invites visitors of all ages to journey through the swamps of the Everglades, weave through a maze, climb a two-story banyan tree..

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Holocaust Museum

The Museum is open year round, closed major U.S. holidays. Its permanent collection has over 1,000 World War II and Holocaust artifacts, many donated or on permanent loan from Holocaust Survivors and concentration camp Liberators.

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Immokalee Pioneer Museum

Originally home to cattleman Robert Roberts and his family, this 15-acre living history museum (the longest running ranch in South Florida) provides visitors with a rare opportunity to experience daily working life on a Southwest Florida pioneer homestead and citrus grove from the early 1900s.

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Marco Island Historical Museum

Long famous for its Key Marco Cat, one of the most influential discoveries in North American archaeology. The Museum explores Southwest Florida’s Calusa Indians and brings this vanished civilization to life with informative displays and an exciting recreated village scene.

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Museum of Military Memorabilia

The museum started out with WWII Aviation displays. The Airport was started to be built in 1942 as Naples Army Airfield Training Base and in December 1943 received it’s Aircraft.

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Museum of the Everglades

Explore the history of nearby Everglades City, once accessible only by boat, this remote frontier trading town took an ambitious new turn in 1923 as the hub of Barron Collier’s personal Southwest Florida real estate empire.

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Naples Depot Museum

Set in Naples’ restored Seaboard Air Line Railway passenger station, the Museum welcomes visitors back to the railroading boom days of the Roaring Twenties and explains how generations of Southwest Floridians used technology..

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Revs Institute

Dedicated to the study and celebration of the automobile- arguably the most important technologic object of the 20th century. On view to the public is the Collier Collection- over 100 of the most influential automobiles ever created.

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The Baker Museum

Is one of the foremost fine arts museums in Southwest Florida. The Baker Museum hosts several traveling exhibitions annually to complement installations of works from its permanent collections.

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Estero River

The Estero River’s designated paddling trail runs nine miles, from Koreshan State Historic Site to Lovers Key.

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