Sugarloaf Key
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Former home to the Sugarloaf Pineapple Plantation, Sugarloaf Key offers quiet solitude to its residents. If you are looking for larger lots and floor plans, more luxurious landscaping and privacy this is the Key for you. The majority of homes are located south of the Overseas Highway looking out onto the distinctive blue white waters of Upper and Lower Sugarloaf Sounds. Large ocean front estates rim the outside of the island facing out to the Atlantic.

Boating is excellent for shallow draft boats with access to the backcountry, but there is no access for large boats or sailboats. The Sugarloaf backcountry is legendary for flats fishing.

The upper portion of the island (also known locally as Upper Sugarloaf Key) has a public school, church, restaurant, and KOA campground. The lower portion of the island (Lower Sugarloaf Key), although smaller in area, is more densely populated and is also called Sugarloaf Shores.  It has Sugarloaf Lodge and restaurant, a volunteer fire department, a bank, and Sugarloaf Key bat tower, built in 1929 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The tower was built to control the mosquito (and hence malaria) problem in the Lower Keys, but reportedly, when the bats were put in, they flew away.

If you are a pilot, Sugarloaf has a basic public airstrip you can fly into. There’s a popular sky diving operation, and you’ll definitely see folks falling from the sky. The houses along the airstrip get together at Christmas and the “Ho-Ho-Ho” lights (One “Ho” for each house) can be seen for miles

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