Boot Key Harbor

Boot Key Harbor is a natural body of water located in the middle of the Florida Keys, entirely within the city limits of Marathon, Florida, USA.

Boot Key Harbor can be accessed by boat via two inlets from the Atlantic Ocean. The western inlet has a controlling depth of 6 feet at mean low-tide, as does the rest of the main channel within the harbor. Sister Creek provides access from the south and has a low-point of 4.2 feet at mean-low tide.

Boot Key Harbor is well protected from severe sea conditions and is popular with recreational boaters seeking refuge from storms. A large portion of Boot Key Harbor is occupied by a 226-buoy municipal mooring field administered by the City of Marathon, Florida, USA.

Boot Key Bridge spans the west end of Boot Key Harbor connecting Key Vaca with Boot Key to the South. The bridge is currently closed to pedestrian and vehicular traffic, and the bascule section was removed on October 26, 2010.

Coordinates: 24°42′23.58″N 81°5′33.05″W / 24.7065500°N 81.0925139°W / 24.7065500; -81.0925139

Florida Keys

Biscayne National Park	Soldier Key Ragged Keys Boca Chita Key Sands Key Elliott Key Adams Key Caesar's Rock Meig's Key Rubicon Keys Reid Key Porgy Key Totten Key Old Rhodes Key City of Islandia

Upper keys	Key Largo (island) Key Largo (CDP) North Key Largo (CDP) Tavernier (CDP) Plantation Key (island) Plantation Key (former CDP) Windley Key Upper Matecumbe Key Tea Table Key Indian Key Lignumvitae Key Lower Matecumbe Key Village of Islamorada

Middle keys	Craig Key Fiesta Key Long Key City of Layton Conch Key Little Conch Key Duck Key (island) Duck Key (CDP) Grassy Key Crawl Key Long Point Key Fat Deer Key Key Vaca City of Marathon City of Key Colony Beach Boot Key Knight's Key

Lower keys	Pigeon Key Money Key Little Duck Key Missouri Key Ohio Key Sunshine Key Bahia Honda Key Spanish Harbor Key Scout Key (West Summerland Key) No Name Key Big Pine Key (CDP) Little Torch Key Middle Torch Key Big Torch Key Ramrod Key Summerland Key Knockemdown Key Cudjoe Key (CDP) Sugarloaf Key Park Key Lower Sugarloaf Key Saddlebunch Keys Shark Key Geiger Key Big Coppitt Key (island) Big Coppitt Key (CDP) East Rockland Key Rockland Key Boca Chica Key Raccoon Key Stock Island (island) Stock Island (CDP) Key West (island) Key West (city) Sigsbee Park Fleming Key Sunset Key Wisteria Island

Outlying Islands	Mule Keys (with Mule Key, Crawfish Key, Archer Key, Joe Ingram Key, Big Mullet Key, Barracouta Key, Cottrell Key, Man Key, Little Mullet Key, Ballast Key, Woman Key, Boca Grande Key) Marquesas Keys Dry Tortugas Tortugas Banks

Areas	Florida Bay Dry Tortugas National Park Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary National Key Deer Refuge John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park Biscayne Bay Biscayne National Park Key West National Wildlife Refuge Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge Florida Reef

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“This is the Key of the Kingdom:
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—For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)