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Listen: The Bluegrass & Old-Time ProgramView showing visitors' center at the John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park - Key Largo, Florida.
Image Number
Photographer
Date
Collection
Series/Collection number: S 1047, Publicity photographs, 1940-1996 ; Box 1, FF21
Subject Term
Recreation areas--Florida--Monroe County--Key Largo
Parks--Florida--Monroe County--Key Largo
Marine parks and reserves
Public buildings--Florida--Monroe County--Key Largo
Park facilities--Florida--Monroe County--Key Largo
Visitors' centers--Florida--Monroe County--Key Largo
Park buildings--Florida--Monroe County--Key Largo
Physical Description
General Note
The visitor center has a 30,000-gallon saltwater aquarium for live examples of reef creatures.
The park is located on U.S. Highway 1 three miles north of Key Largo at mile marker 102.5. The Florida Park Service first acquired the park property in 1959. This was the nation's first underwater park. It was named for Miami Herald newspaper editor John D. Pennekamp whose efforts contributed to the establishment of Everglades National Park as well as preservation of the area that would become the park named for him.
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