The flattest, warmest, most forgiving water between Miami and Key West — and a grass field to rig on so you are not pulling sand out of your bridles all season. Buy your park entry here and drive straight past the gate line.
On a forecast weekend the entrance backs up onto the Overseas Highway while the wind is already filling in. Buy here, it lands on your phone, you roll in.
Per person, arriving on foot or by bike. Valid the day you buy it.
Buy passSingle-occupant vehicle or motorcycle. Valid the day you buy it.
Buy passOne carload, gear and all. The Saturday crew pass.
Buy passOne named rider, unlimited entry to all 175 Florida state parks for twelve months. Anyone with you gets in at 2 dollars a head. Pays for itself in six weekends.
Buy annualUp to eight people in one vehicle, unlimited entry for twelve months. Built for a crew that travels together.
Buy annualTell us how you are getting here and how often you ride, and we will tell you which pass is actually cheaper. Even if the answer is none of them.
Message usThe whole price, out loud. You pay the park fee shown, a World Wind Sports service fee of 2.1 percent, and card processing. That is the entire bill — nothing appears at checkout that is not on this page. Keys parks collect sales tax on entry even from annual pass holders. Entry is never guaranteed once the park reaches capacity; that is a state rule, not ours, and refunds are handled by the park at 1-800-326-3521.
Ocean side of US 1, eleven miles west of Long Key. The bottom stays waist deep for a quarter mile out, the surf is modest, the current is weak, and when the tide drops a sandbar surfaces east of the point that you can stand on in the middle of the Atlantic.
It is the reason riders drive three hours from Miami for a day trip, and the reason first-timers who would be terrified anywhere else end up riding by the afternoon.
Shot by riders, not by us. This is the spot on a working wind day.
Twenty-eight sites laid out on a gravel pad with twenty, thirty and fifty amp power, water, a picnic table, a charcoal grill and hammock posts already set. Beach access sits between sites thirteen and fifteen, a few sites look straight out at the ocean, and the bathhouse is accessible with hot showers. There is a dump station. There is no laundry.
Thirty-six dollars a night plus tax — which is absurd value for beachfront in the Keys, and exactly why Florida residents book eleven months ahead and the good weeks vanish the morning they open.
Cancellations happen constantly. They just do not stay open long enough for a human refreshing a web page to catch them. That is the part we solve.
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Curry Hammock protects a group of islands in the Middle Keys — mangrove swamp, seagrass beds, rockland hammock, and one of the largest populations of thatch palm left in the United States. Every autumn it becomes one of the best raptor counts in North America.
The park rents kayaks and tandem kayaks and runs guided mangrove paddles roughly every other Friday morning, weather and tide permitting. It does not rent kiteboarding gear — never has. Anything with a kite on it, you bring it or you arrange it through us.
Because on a windy Saturday the queue at the ranger station is the difference between riding and watching. We buy the pass on your behalf, it arrives on your phone, and you drive in. The convenience is the product — we are upfront that you could do it yourself.
The calendar day you bought it, and no longer. Every visit is a separate purchase. If you are here most weekends, the annual pass is cheaper before the end of the second month.
No. Kayaks and guided mangrove tours only. Bring your own kit or talk to us about getting set up.
Launch and land in the day use area only, then ride at least three hundred feet off the shoreline, including past the fence on the campground side. Those rules exist so kiters, swimmers and campers can share twelve hundred feet of beach without anyone getting hurt.
Not strictly, but wear them if you are learning. There are patches of sharp rock, sea urchins and coralline algae, and the marl at the water's edge is genuinely slippery.
No, and we will not pretend otherwise. You book with the state yourself, in your own name. What we do is watch the availability calendar and alert you the moment a site frees up — which is the part that actually costs people their trip.
Entry is not guaranteed at capacity, pass or no pass — that is the state's rule and it applies to everyone. Refunds go through the park on 1-800-326-3521, and we will help you chase it.
World Wind Sports, a rider community relaunched around local chapters at real launch spots. This is the Curry Hammock chapter. We are not the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and we do not run the park.
Nobody ages out. Nobody rides alone.