Tag: Port Boca Grande Lighthouse

October view of Lighthouse

October 23, 2025
Staff Report
News, Sports & Outdoors

View of the Port Boca Grande Lighthouse. Winds had moved some of the sand around, exposing boulders that protect the light. This area was not part of the recently completed renourishment. ...

Here comes the sand …

The Gasparilla Island State Park at Port Boca Grande is closed due to a planned state renourishment project. It had been scheduled for earlier but has had delays due to weather. The Port Boca...

Port Boca Grande Lighthouse reopens after storms

The Port Boca Grande Lighthouse & Museum opened May 5, after, what they generously called, eight months of “stormy setbacks.” The re-opening was a celebration, as Linda Edic, the wife of the...

Port Boca Grande Lighthouse reopens after hurricane closure

The Barrier Island Parks Society (BIPS) will reopen the historic Port Boca Grande Lighthouse and Museum at Gasparilla Island State Park on Monday, May 5 after nearly eight months of closure due to...

State reopens parking lot at south end

Gasparilla Island State Park reopened its Dune parking area near the Port Boca Grande Lighthouse on Wednesday, April 23. Previously, the Range Light, Sea Grape and Sea Wall beach access areas...

Shore pleasing Lighthouse cake

April 10, 2025
Staff Report
News

Cappy Powell, pictured with her husband Peter, was surprised with a Boca Grande Lighthouse cake by her sister in Georgia at a family dinner. She said that she refused to cut it it was so...

Port Noise Complaint: The conclusion to the story

BY MILTON BELLMilton Bell is a Boca Grande native, born October 26, 1950, who grew up on the property of the phosphate loading facility at Port Boca Grande. He is one of six children born to...

State Park now open at Range Light, main lot at Belcher still closed

Florida State Parks reopened three parking areas for Gasparilla Island State Park last weekend, and the “Beaches Closed” electronic signage at the Boca Grande Causeway toll was removed. The...

State Park remains closed

October 31, 2024
Anna Ridilla
Breaking News

Local State Parks saw varying degrees of damage from Hurricane Milton, including structures and access. The Barrier Island Parks Society is focusing recovery on making these locations more...

It came by for a visit …

October 18, 2024
Staff Report
News, Sports & Outdoors

The night of Monday, Oct. 14, a comet known as C/2023 A3, or Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, was photographed 45 minutes after sunset at the Boca Grande Lighthouse. See you again in 80,000 years. Photo by...