Garcon Point (Florida)

Garcon Point is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States. Its population was 457 as of the 2020 census. The community is located on the peninsula of the same name.

Yellow River Marsh Preserve State Park is a Florida State Park located on Garcon Point, south of Milton, in northwestern Florida. A small parking area, gazebo, and public access point are located on Dickerson City Road. Located on County Road 191, approximately one mile north of the intersection with County Road 281 and along both sides of the highway on Blackwater Bay.

Dickerson City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States. Its population was 146 as of the 2010 census. The community is located on the eastern side of Garcon Point.

National Airlines Flight 193, registration N4744, Donna, was a Boeing 727-235 en route from Miami, Florida to Pensacola on May 8, 1978. It was scheduled with stops at Melbourne, Florida; Tampa; New Orleans, Louisiana and Mobile, Alabama. The accident occurred at night in low visibility from fog. During the descent into Pensacola Regional Airport it impacted Escambia Bay, sinking in 12 feet (3.7 m) of water.

WPNN (790 AM) is a commercial radio station in Pensacola, Florida. It broadcasts a talk radio format and is owned by Miracle Radio. It calls itself "Pensacola's Talk and Local Sports Leader." The radio studios and transmitter are on North Pace Boulevard at Kelly Avenue in Pensacola. By day, WPNN transmits with 1,000 watts using a non-directional antenna, but at night, to avoid interference with other stations on 790 AM, it reduces power to only 66 watts. Programming is also heard on 250-watt FM translator W279CY at 103.7 MHz. Most of WPNN's schedule is from nationally syndicated programs. Weekdays on WPNN begin with "This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal." That's followed by Glenn Beck, Dana Loesch, Sebastian Gorka, Joe Pags, Jesse Kelly, Michael Berry and "Coast to Coast AM with George Noory." Weekends feature specialty shows on money, health, religion, travel, veterans, guns and real estate. Weekend shows include "Bill Handel on the Law" and "Our American Stories with Lee Habeeb." Most hours begin with CBS Radio News. WPNN also carries New Orleans Pelicans basketball games and some local high school sports.

The Garcon Point Bridge is a 2-lane toll bridge in Santa Rosa County, in the Florida panhandle. The bridge generally runs north - south and connects U.S. Route 98 east of Gulf Breeze, Florida to Interstate 10 and U.S. Route 90 west of Milton, Florida. The road and bridge uses the TOLL 281 shield on signage from US 98 to I-10. North of I-10 the road is signed solely as State Road 281. Exit signs on I-10 display both the State Road 281 and TOLL 281 shields. The bridge crosses East Bay, a large section of Pensacola Bay and serves as an evacuation route during hurricanes.

Avalon is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States. Survey and Plat made for AVALON BEACH COMPANY, Avalon, Florida. Permanent reference monuments at corners marked thusly within Control Survey. Recorded in Plat Book A Pages 1 to 10 Records of Santa Rosa County, Florida. (Date: September 19, 1925) Its population was 679 as of the 2010 census. Interstate 10 passes through the community.

The Escambia Bay Bridge is a six-lane freeway bridge that carries Interstate 10 (I-10) across Escambia Bay near Pensacola, Florida.

The Hyer—Knowles Planing Mill Chimney in Pensacola, Florida is all that remains of an 1854 steam-powered sawmill. When the Confederacy abandoned the city in 1862, all the mills were destroyed so they could not be used by the Union. The only part of the building that survived was the chimney. It is now part of Chimney Park, a wayside park along US 90. The chimney was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 24, 2012.

Escribano Point Wildlife Management Area (EPWMA) contains 4,057 acres of salt marsh, shrub bog, and sandhill habitat fourteen miles north of Pensacola in Santa Rosa County, Florida. In 2004, an initial 1,166 acres were acquired by the Florida Forever program and leased to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to establish the EPWMA.

Mulat is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States. Its population was 259 as of the 2010 census.

East Bay is a bay located in the far western Florida Panhandle. Unusually, East Bay is connected to open waters via Pensacola Bay to its southwest. The bay is fed primarily by the Blackwater River and the East Bay River.