Ohio Key

{{Short description|Island in the lower Florida Keys, United States}}

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| image_name = OHIO, OR "SUNSHINE" KEY ONE OF THE LOWER FLORIDA KEYS, WHERE RACHEL CARSON CAMPED WHILE GATHERING DATA FOR HER BOOK... - NARA - 548632.tif

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US 1 (or the Overseas Highway) crosses the Ohio Key at approximately mile marker 39, between Missouri Key and Bahia Honda Key. Today it is also known as Sunshine Key,{{cite book | last=McCarthy | first=K.M. | title=The Book Lover's Guide to Florida | publisher=Pineapple Press | year=1992 | isbn=978-1-56164-012-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mn2XAqXWK2AC&pg=PA264 | access-date=September 7, 2017 | page=264}} after a camping resort located there. The portion of the island south of U.S. Route 1 is protected as the Ohio Key National Wildlife Refuge.

File:Ohiokey.jpg

File:Campsite at Ohio or "Sunshine" Key, Florida.jpg