Best anchorages and harbours in Florida

Point Ogden

Anchorage off Point Ogden on the Manatee River near Palmetto, Florida, close to the Bradenton-Palmetto waterfront on the route to Tampa Bay.

• Sheltered N, NE, E

Key West Harbour Anchorage

Open anchorage in Key West harbour, southernmost Florida, on a sand bottom about 1.3 miles south-west of the Historic Seaport.

Snipe Key

Anchorage off Snipe Key in the Lower Florida Keys, about 16 nm north-east of Key West, on a sand and weed bottom.

• Sheltered E, SW, S, SE

South Basin

Anchorage and county mooring field on the south side of the Rickenbacker Causeway, off Key Biscayne in Biscayne Bay, Florida.

• Sheltered N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW

South Beach

Anchorage off the southern tip of South Beach, Miami Beach, near the Government Cut inlet in Florida.

• Sheltered NE

St Augustine

Anchorage and mooring area on the Matanzas River at St Augustine, Florida, around the Bridge of Lions in the historic city centre.

• Sheltered N, NE, E, S, SE

Tavernier Key

Anchorage on the Atlantic side of Tavernier Key, an uninhabited mangrove island in the Upper Florida Keys.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W

Tierra Verde

Anchorage off Tierra Verde in Florida, in a sheltered basin opening onto Boca Ciega Bay near St. Petersburg, mud bottom.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, E

West island mooring

Mooring buoy off Dinner Key in Coconut Grove, on Biscayne Bay, Miami. Part of the city mooring facility, sheltered from N and NE.

• Sheltered N, NE

White Horse Key

Anchorage off White Horse Key, a mangrove and sand island in the Ten Thousand Islands of south-west Florida.

• Sheltered NW, W, SW