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Things to Do in Egmont Key
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28 attractions
Tampa Bay
Egmont Key Tampa Bay
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St. Pete Pier
A 26-acre public park built out over Tampa Bay — splash pad, beach, fishing deck, a marine discovery center, rooftop drinks and sunset over the city — and free to walk from dawn to late evening.
Clearwater Marine Aquarium
The rescue hospital that became a movie star — the working marine-rescue center behind the Dolphin Tale films, where resident dolphins, sea turtles, and manatees are patients first and the mission is release. Smaller than a mega-aquarium, and prouder of it.
John's Pass Dolphin Cruise
The bay's reliable dolphin ticket — cruises from John's Pass Village work the Intracoastal's resident bottlenose pods between a boardwalk of fish shacks and pirate kitsch, with sunset runs the connoisseur's slot. Easy, cheap, and it delivers.
Salvador Dalí Museum
The finest Dalí collection outside Spain, improbably in St. Petersburg — melting-clock masterworks inside a hurricane-proof concrete cocoon with a glass bubble bursting out of it, downtown on the waterfront. The bay's world-class culture hour.
The Florida Aquarium
Tampa's downtown anchor under the shell-shaped dome — a walk through Florida's own waters from spring-fed wetlands to coral reef, with river otters, free-flight herons, a serious coral-rescue lab, and the channel district at the door.
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay
Florida's coaster capital with a serengeti inside it — Iron Gwazi's record-breaking hybrid headlines a lineup Orlando can't match, running alongside a genuine 65-acre African plain of giraffes, rhinos, and the train that tours them.
ZooTampa at Lowry Park
Florida's warmest-hearted zoo — manatee critical care you can watch, Florida panthers and red wolves, Indian rhino encounters, and a shaded, stroller-scaled layout that families rank above parks twice its size.
Pirate Water Taxi
Tampa's Riverwalk by boat — hop-on-hop-off pirate-flagged taxis loop the Hillsborough River's stops from Armature Works to the aquarium, the cheapest scenic cruise in town and secretly its best transit. Day passes, cold drinks, zero parking.
Sunken Gardens
St. Pete's century-old roadside Eden — four acres of ancient banyans, cascades, and flamingos sunk fifteen feet below street level, saved by the city from the bulldozer era. An unhurried garden hour the beach week secretly needs.
Henry B. Plant Museum
Tampa's silver-minareted Gilded Age palace — the 1891 Tampa Bay Hotel, where Teddy Roosevelt's era of the Spanish-American War played out on the veranda, preserved as a museum inside the University of Tampa.
Imagine Museum
St. Pete's glass museum that is not Chihuly — a large, bright collection of contemporary studio glass by hundreds of artists from around the world, on Central Avenue in the Grand Central District.
Tampa Bay History Center
Twelve thousand years of Tampa Bay in one Riverwalk building — first peoples, Spanish explorers, pirates and shipwrecks, cigar city and the cattle coast — with one of the finest map collections in the South.
American Victory Ship Mariners Memorial Museum
Climb nine decks of a working WWII cargo ship — wheelhouse, crew cabins, galley, cargo holds and engine — moored in downtown Tampa beside the Florida Aquarium, and still one of the few Victory ships left afloat.
Chihuly Collection at the Morean Arts Center
Dale Chihuly's blown-glass spectacle in purpose-built galleries on Central Avenue — and the ticket includes a live glassblowing demonstration in the Morean's hot shop a block away.
Florida Holocaust Museum
One of the largest Holocaust museums in the country, in downtown St. Petersburg — survivor testimony you can question, a WWII-era railcar, and exhibits that connect history to the present with care.
Tampa Riverwalk
A free 2.6-mile waterfront path through downtown Tampa — parks, museums, the minarets across the river, waterfront bars, pirate water taxis, and the best evening stroll in the city.
Ybor City Historic District
Tampa's cigar city — a National Historic Landmark District of brick factories, wrought-iron balconies, immigrant social clubs and hand-rolled cigars, with wild chickens strutting Seventh Avenue.
Weedon Island Preserve
More than 3,000 acres of mangroves and bay on St. Pete's northeast shore — boardwalks over tidal flats, a paddling trail through mangrove tunnels, and an ancient archaeological landscape. Free.
Islands & Beaches
Egmont Key Islands & Beaches
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Fort De Soto Park
The five-island county park that keeps topping America's-best-beach lists — North Beach's lagoon and sugar sand, the 1898 fort and its big mortars, seven miles of paddling and bike trail, and the Egmont ferry's home dock. One parking fee buys it all.
Caladesi Island State Park
The other island you take a boat to — a short ferry from Honeymoon Island lands you on one of the last undeveloped barrier islands on the Gulf coast: white sand, a mangrove paddling trail, and no condo in sight.
Shell Key Shuttle
The sandbar wilderness next door — a short shuttle from Pass-a-Grille lands you on an unbridged preserve island of shell-strewn beach and seabird colonies, the bay's barefoot answer to Egmont's bricks: no ruins, no shade, pure Gulf.
Pass-a-Grille Beach
The old-Florida tip of St. Pete Beach — a historic district of cottages and pastel shops, a beach with almost nothing built on the sand, and sunsets looking straight toward Egmont Key. Still rebuilding, and worth it.
Honeymoon Island State Park
A causeway-connected wild island off Dunedin — shelling beaches, an osprey and eagle trail through slash pines, a pet beach, and the dock for the Caladesi ferry — named one of the top beaches in the US for 2026.
Clearwater Beach
The bay area's headline beach — wide white quartz sand, calm shallow water, the Pier 60 sunset tradition and a walkable strip of hotels and restaurants. Still repairing in places after 2024, and still glorious.
Tarpon Springs Sponge Docks
America's most Greek waterfront — sponge boats, bakeries and tavernas along Dodecanese Boulevard, sponge-diving demonstrations on the Anclote River, and a cathedral with a famous Epiphany dive.
Egmont Key
Egmont Key Egmont Key
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Egmont Key Ferry
The only scheduled ride to the island — the Tampa Bay Ferry runs from Fort De Soto's bayside across the shipping channel to Egmont Key, dolphins escorting most crossings, with hours ashore among the lighthouse, fort ruins, and empty Gulf beach.
Egmont Key Snorkel & Dolphin Cruise
Snorkel a sunken fortress — cruises from Fort De Soto and John's Pass pair dolphin-watching with mask-and-fin time over Fort Dade's drowned gun batteries, where sheepshead and snook patrol hundred-year-old concrete in clear green Gulf water.
Egmont Key Lighthouse & Fort Dade
A ghost town with a working heart — the 1858 lighthouse still guides Tampa Bay's ships while Fort Dade's brick streets, gun batteries, and powder magazines crumble around it, walked free once you're ashore and narrated by shorebirds.
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