Seasonally open, the island occasionally connects Garden Key via a Land Bridge (otherwise, you can access it via kayak/canoe) ...

camping is your only choice if you plan to overnight within Dry Tortugas National Park. The only place where it's legal to set up camp here is on Garden Key, the main island where Fort Jefferson ...

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is to take a walk at low tide—when the sandbar bridge between Bush and Garden Key is not submerged—and spot some of the nearly 300 species of bird which pass through each year. Dry Tortugas ...

If getting in the water isn’t your idea of a fun time, consider spending your time visiting Garden Key. As the second largest island in the Dry Tortugas, Garden Key has had the most human ...

Another main attraction here is historic Fort Jefferson, located on 14-acre Garden Key, the second-largest island in the Dry Tortugas. Since its original construction in the 1800s as a masonry ...

Though reservations book up quickly, Dry Tortugas does offer ten campsites on Garden Key for adventurous souls who want to bed down among the sand and surf. Stargazers will be rewarded ...

A group of men sit by a brick wall at Fort Jefferson on Garden Key within the Dry Tortugas National Park, with laundry hung to dry behind them. The National Park Service closed the Tortugas Sunday ...

It's made up of seven small islands. Terreplain near the lighthouse at Fort Jefferson on Garden Key at Dry Tortugas National Park, 70 miles west of Key West, Fla. National Park Service The closure ...

Video released by the Dry Tortugas National Park shows underwater excavations, which began in August 2022, during a survey of the Fort Jefferson Post Cemetery near Garden Key. Records indicate ...