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Unlike more frequented parks, this one provides a playground for the senses, where alabaster sand caresses your feet as you explore. Daily, the dunes create a mesmerizing contrast with the clear azure ...

The National Park Service has reopened Dry Tortugas National Park and Fort Jefferson. The park service had closed the islands over the weekend to assess damage after Hurricane Helene.

In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established Fort Jefferson National Monument under the Antiquities Act to preserve the Dry Tortugas Islands and Fort Jefferson, the NPS notes.

From left: A view of the Milky Way over Fort Jefferson, in the Dry Tortugas; camping outside Fort Jefferson. Credit: From left: Tim Cooper/National Parks at Night; Matt A. Claiborne/Shutterstock.

You'll have to take a ferry or seaplane to get to Dry Tortugas, ... The area was still strategic in the 19th century when the U.S. Army built Fort Jefferson there.

The turquoise waters surrounding the Dry Tortugas islands in the Florida Keys have seen a lot of history. The first European to note them was Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon in 1513. Although ...