Lower Sugarloaf Key is the lower arm of an island known as Sugarloaf Key in the lower Florida Keys about 13 miles east of Key West.
U.S. 1 (or the Overseas Highway) crosses the key at approximately mile markers 16.5–17.5. Due to the routing of U.S. Route 1, it appears that Upper Sugarloaf Key and Lower Sugarloaf Key are separate islands, but they are actually one large "U"-shaped island.
As its name implies, Lower Sugarloaf Key is the lower arm of Sugarloaf Key, with the upper arm being Upper Sugarloaf Key. The island makes a loop on the Atlantic side with Upper Sugarloaf Sound and Park Key in the center. Although smaller in area, than Upper Sugarloaf Key, it is more densely populated and is also called Sugarloaf Shores.
It has Sugarloaf Lodge and restaurant, an airport, a volunteer fire department, and a bat tower built in 1929 which is listed as a historic site. The tower was put there by a man named Perky to control the mosquito problem in the Lower Keys, but when the bats were put in, they flew away, never to return. Mr. Perky intended to found a city named after himself, but the city did not succeed due to the local mosquitoes.
Coordinates: 24°38′38″N 81°33′47″W / 24.644°N 81.563°W / 24.644; -81.563
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Florida Keys
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| Biscayne National Park |
- Soldier Key
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- City of Islandia
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| Upper keys |
- Key Largo (island)
- Key Largo (CDP)
- North Key Largo (CDP)
- Tavernier (CDP)
- Plantation Key (island)
- Plantation Key (former CDP)
- Windley Key
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- Lower Matecumbe Key
- Village of Islamorada
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| Middle keys |
- Craig Key
- Fiesta Key
- Long Key
- City of Layton
- Conch Key
- Little Conch Key
- Duck Key (island)
- Duck Key (CDP)
- Grassy Key
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- Long Point Key
- Fat Deer Key
- Key Vaca
- City of Marathon
- City of Key Colony Beach
- Boot Key
- Knight's Key
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| 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
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| 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 Bank
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| Areas |
- Florida Bay
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- 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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| Other Topics |
- Monroe County
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- Seven Mile Bridge
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- Fort Jefferson
- Theater of the Sea
- Hurricane Wilma
- 1935 Labor Day hurricane
- Key Deer
- Key lime pie
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