Uncluttered Anna Maria Island - Floridas Gulf Islands The Official Site of the Bradenton Area CVB, Anna Maria Island, Longboat Key, Bradenton & Lakewood Ranch

Florida's Gulf Islands of Anna Maria Island, Longboat Key and the mainland areas of Bradenton and Lakewood Ranch welcome you to an unspoiled beach destination on the Gulf of Mexico. Our islands offer the most precious of spoils… time. Time for family, romance or self discovery among miles of white beaches, shells and sea turtle tracks.

Relax, Refresh, Revive, Renew

By Janet K. Keeler

Read what Janet Keeler of the St. Petersburg Times recently wrote about us.

Anna Maria Island and its white sand beaches are barely an hour from southern Pinellas County, but they seem so much farther in both attitude and appearance. The condo canyons common at the Florida shore haven’t developed here. The view is not cluttered with the beach bars and souvenir shacks that crowd so many Florida beach towns. (At least if you keep to the city of Anna Maria and Holmes Beach. Bradenton Beach has more action.) It’s quiet, especially after the sun makes its fiery exit beyond the horizon.

Note: This is an excerpt from the October 2007 issue of Bay magazine, a publication of the St. Petersburg Times.

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