Port Boca Grande Lighthouse nearly collapsed when the stairs ripped away from the structure. About $210,000 was needed to shore up the structure and install new stairs and ramps.

That's the Port Boca Grande Lighthouse, built in 1890, in the distance. By . Susan Glaser, cleveland.com; BOCA GRANDE, Florida – Finally, I took my shoes off and felt the sand through my toes.

How does a 114-year-old structure withstand a category 4 hurricane? The relieved staff and volunteers at the Boca Grande Lighthouse Museum have a pretty good idea. Built in 1890 by the U.S. Lightho… ...

Boca Grande has a 6.5-mile paved biking trail, a rail-trail (pedestrian and golf cart friendly) that travels the length of the island starting at the Boca Grande Causeway and ending at Gasparilla ...

When tarpon pile into the Lighthouse Hole in Boca Grande Pass, fishing boats gather in tight groups south of Gasparilla Island's iconic lighthouse. David A. Brown.

The Boca Grande Lighthouse. Photo courtesy of Manatee County Public Library System The lighthouse is a simple, one-story, wooden bungalow on iron pilings with a black octagonal lantern tower.

Boca Grande—that idyllic Old-Florida town on Gasparilla Island south of Englewood—retains its small-town charms while the rest of Southwest Florida has burgeoned around it.

After decades of deterioration, Gasparilla Island's 1927 lighthouse has been refurbished and re-illuminated, thanks to a $1.8 million restoration. ... Lost city is Boca Grande.