St. George Island

St. George Island is a 28-miles barrier island surrounded by beautiful beaches and the Apalachicola Bay.  St. George island is located just 2 hours from Tallahassee.  For years, it has been a destination for vacationers, with its white sandy beaches and bountiful bay!  St. George Island State Park is a sprawling slice of paradise that occupies approximately 9 acres of this 28-acre barrier island. 

The island offers single family homes, cottages and hotels.  In addition, there are several restaurants, shops and other amenities.  It is conveniently located close to Eastpoint, where you can pick up fresh seafood galore, or Apalachicola, where you can enjoy fine dining, shopping and local entertainment.

On St. George Island you will find uncrowded beaches for relaxing, shelling and fishing, marshes for wildlife viewing and the beautiful waters of the Gulf of Mexico for swimming, snorkeling, boating or fishing.  On the eastern end of St. George Island you will find St. George Island State park with 9 miles of beach, wonderful dunes with scrub and bay forest as well as salt marshes.  The park also has a series of hiking trails, boardwalks and observation platforms to enjoy all the sites and sounds of the area as well as viewing all the birds and other wildlife.  In St. George Island State park you will see ghost crabs, salt-dwarfed pines, wild rosemary and reindeer moss.  One the beach side, loggerhead and green sea turtles come ashore to lay eggs every summer. 

If you love to fish, St. George Island is your place.  You can find a charter to take you in the bay or Gulf any day of the year.  Other tours take you canoeing or boating in search of nature or off to islands unconnected by bridge to the mainland.  St. Vincent National Wildlife Refuge is the largest of these and is sanctuary to a rare mix of native animals and exotics that have survived from the island's former life as a hunting preserve.  See sambar deer, native white-tailed deer and reintroduced red wolves.