Pictures: Joan M. Durante Park on Longboat Key
Images from around Longboat Key, Florida, a 10.5-mile long island in both Manatee and Sarasota counties on the Gulf Coast. The 32-acre Joan M. Durante Park stretches from Gulf of Mexico Drive down to Sarasota Bay, with more than a mile of crisscrossing trails with boardwalks that pass through salt marsh, upland hammock and mangrove wetlands. (Richard Tribou / Orlando Sentinel)
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Joan M. Durante Park is a 32-acre park on Longboat Key locatd at 5550 Gulf of Mexico Drive.
Images from around Longboat Key, Florida, a 10.5-mile long island in both Manatee and Sarasota counties on the Gulf Coast. The 32-acre Joan M. Durante Park stretches from Gulf of Mexico Drive down to Sarasota Bay, with more than a mile of crisscrossing trails with boardwalks that pass through salt marsh, upland hammock and mangrove wetlands. (Richard Tribou / Orlando Sentinel)
Images from around Longboat Key, Florida, a 10.5-mile long island in both Manatee and Sarasota counties on the Gulf Coast. The 32-acre Joan M. Durante Park stretches from Gulf of Mexico Drive down to Sarasota Bay, with more than a mile of crisscrossing trails with boardwalks that pass through salt marsh, upland hammock and mangrove wetlands. Gazebos with notebooks ask visitors to leave their thoughts. (Richard Tribou / Orlando Sentinel)
Images from around Longboat Key, Florida, a 10.5-mile long island in both Manatee and Sarasota counties on the Gulf Coast. The 32-acre Joan M. Durante Park stretches from Gulf of Mexico Drive down to Sarasota Bay, with more than a mile of crisscrossing trails with boardwalks that pass through salt marsh, upland hammock and mangrove wetlands. (Richard Tribou / Orlando Sentinel)
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Images from around Longboat Key, Florida, a 10.5-mile long island in both Manatee and Sarasota counties on the Gulf Coast. The 32-acre Joan M. Durante Park stretches from Gulf of Mexico Drive down to Sarasota Bay, with more than a mile of crisscrossing trails with boardwalks that pass through salt marsh, upland hammock and mangrove wetlands. (Richard Tribou / Orlando Sentinel)