Key Largo
22 June 2020
What’s New in the Florida Keys & Key West: Welcome Back and Bring a Mask
The Florida Keys & Key West reopened to visitors June 1, with officials urging everyone to take personal health actions to protect against the spread of COVID-19. A Keyswide county ordinance requires that facial coverings must be worn by visitors and residents while in business establishments and other public settings where there is a roof overhead, as well as outdoors when social distancing of 6 feet or more is not possible.
11 May 2020
Florida Keys Tourism Council Launches ‘Safer@Home’ Video Challenge
Although the Florida Keys remain closed to visitors due to the global COVID-19 crisis, a new social media contest enables travelers to re-create their favorite Keys memories in video form while staying safe at home.
14 April 2020
Keys TDC Launches ‘Safer at Home’ Initiative
The Florida Keys tourism council launched a “safer at home” initiative Tuesday to promote “stay-at-home” directives to combat COVID-19, while also sensitively maintaining awareness of the Florida Keys as a destination.
30 March 2020
Florida Keys and Overseas Highway Remain Closed to Visitors
The Florida Keys remain closed to visitors until further notice, following directives from local government officials based on concerns about U.S. coronavirus threats.
27 March 2020
Florida Keys Officials Establish Checkpoints to Restrict Inbound Traffic
Increasingly concerned about the coronavirus crisis, Florida Keys government officials have established two traffic checkpoints at the top of the Keys that restrict non-residents’ inbound road access.
25 March 2020
Florida Keys Island Chain Temporarily Closed to Visitors
Florida Keys officials have temporarily closed the destination to visitors until further notice due to coronavirus concerns. Throughout the 125-mile-long island chain, lodging businesses and tourism-related entities — including hotels, attractions, beaches, fishing piers, boat ramps and parks — are temporarily closed.
10 March 2020
Team Sandman Captures Win at Jimmy Johnson Billfish Championship
Team Sandman of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, led by Miami’s Captain John Dudas, tallied 12 sailfish releases to take top honors at the two-day Billfish Championship, a main event of the Jimmy Johnson “Quest for the Ring” Fishing Championship Week that ended Saturday.
04 March 2020
One Week Left! Enter to Win a Fishing Vacation to Northernmost and Southernmost Points in the U.S.
Anglers have until just before midnight March 11, 2020 (ET), to enter the “Northernmost to Southernmost Fishing Trip Giveaway” and vie to win a two-destination vacation that includes overnight stays and recreational angling in Lake of Woods, Minnesota, and the Florida Keys.
18 February 2020
Divers to Take a Bite Out of Lionfish at Key Largo Derby April 3-4
Divers are to convene in Key Largo Friday and Saturday, April 3-4, for the Reef Environmental Education Foundation’s 2020 Winter Lionfish Derby Series in the Florida Keys.
12 February 2020
Contest Prize Is a Fishing Vacation to Northernmost and Southernmost Points in the U.S.
Anglers can enter to win a two-destination vacation to fish freshwater and saltwater species in the “Northernmost to Southernmost Fishing Trip Giveaway” that spotlights recreational angling in Lake of the Woods, Minnesota, and the Florida Keys.