Plan a trip to Anna Maria Island and experience the quiet delights of this pristine Florida beach ... Fly into nearby Tampa ...

Related: Resilient Sarasota, Florida, rebounds after back-to-back hurricanes In the meantime, Anna Maria Island -- located midway between Sarasota and Tampa, but a world apart from either ...

"Compared to some brand-name Florida destinations ... visit before tourist season starts in Sarasota, Bradenton and on Anna Maria Island Anna Maria Island named one of The 20 Greatest Beach ...

Photo Credit: Bradenton Area Visitors Bureau Anna Maria Island, a seven-mile stretch of silver sand on Florida's Gulf Coast ... towns of Clearwater and Sarasota. Free of high-rise developments ...

The most photographed spot on Florida’s Anna Maria Island ... Arriving on the island after a 30-minute drive from Sarasota Bradenton International Airport, I’d checked into Bungalow Beach ...

ANNA MARIA ISLAND, Fla. (WWSB) - Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch reports a busy week on the beach, with an increase in disoriented turtles and installing barriers to help keep nesting turtles away from ...

Anna Maria Island took a big hit from Hurricane Milton. At 8:30 p.m. Oct. 9, 2024, Hurricane Milton made landfall in Sarasota County near Siesta Key, Florida, as a Category 3 storm. Siesta Key is ...

A week after Hurricane Helene’s storm surge swept ashore and devastated Anna Maria Island, the popular Southwest Florida tourist destination is still digging out of the wreckage. Signs of ...

The path of destruction left in the wake of Hurricane Helene followed Florida's west coast from Naples and Fort Myers through Sarasota, Tampa and finally the Big Bend of Florida as well as ...