1. Body Owners
City: Stock Island, FL
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (305) 294-8866
Address: 5450 MacDonald Ave.
Description: The knowledgeable staff and compassionate care make this physical therapy and wellness center a popular one with patients and physicians. Everyone goes out of their way to make sure your therapy sessions are comfortable and informative. They offer sessions for children with special needs as well.
2. Lower Florida Keys Health System
City: Stock Island, FL
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (305) 294-5531
Address: 5900 Junior College Rd.
Description: This accredited primary-care facility is the only hospital in the Florida Keys to offer maternity services. Lower Florida Keys Health System maintains 169 beds, a 24-hour emergency room, a clinical lab, and a heliport. Added services include pediatrics, inpatient and outpatient psychotherapy, physical therapy, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and cardiovascular and ambulatory care. The hospital offers substance-abuse assistance and comprehensive wellness programs.
3. Fish And Race
City: Stock Island, FL
Category: Parks & Recreation
Telephone: (305) 292-2291
Address: 5555 College Rd., Sunset Marina
Description: Three mechanics with one goal in mind: “When you go out on your boat, we want you to come back.” Their expert mechanical skills with decades of combined experience help them keep this motto. An extensive inventory of repair parts and a vast selection of new Mercury and Honda outboard engines offer top-of-the-line tune-ups to powerhead and gear-case rebuilding on engines that range in size from 2 to 300 horsepower.
4. Oceanside Marina Key West
City: Stock Island, FL
Category: Parks & Recreation
Telephone: (305) 294-4676
Address: 5950 Peninsula Ave.
Description: Formerly Kings Point Marina, Key West’s largest marina facility has wet slips available up to 80 feet and the T-Head accommodates yachts up to 120 feet. Amenities include a complete tackle shop, a large bathhouse with laundry, a restaurant, fuel, and repair services on-site.
5. Hogfish Bar And Grill
City: Stock Island, FL
Category: Restaurants
Telephone: (305) 293-4041
Address: 6810 Front St.
Description: One of the last frontiers of true Keys hangouts, Hogfish Bar and Grill is where the locals go and the fishing boat captains congregate—if you can find it. To get there, take US 1 North out of Key West and across the Cow Key Channel Bridge. At the third stoplight, bear to the right and onto MacDonald Avenue. Follow this for approximately 1 mile and make a right on Fourth Avenue. Take your next left on Front Street and drive almost to the end—you’ll see the Hogfish Bar and Grill on the right. Once you are there, belly up to a picnic table and order the signature Hogfish “Killer” sandwich, which is a fish sandwich smothered with onions and mushrooms on freshly baked Cuban bread.
6. Rusty Anchor Fisheries
City: Stock Island, FL
Category: Restaurants
Telephone: (305) 294-5369
Address: 5510 Third Ave.
Description: Where’s the fish? A little Insider help is needed to negotiate for fish at this place, known to locals as having the freshest at the best prices. The fish market is directly behind Rusty Anchor Restaurant, which is on Third Avenue (see our Restaurants chapter), although no sign on Third Avenue indicates the fishmonger’s presence. Simply park at the restaurant and they will show you the way to the fishery. Find out about the catch of the day. Rusty Anchor is known for some of the best prices on jumbo stone crab claws and colossal shrimp (“under 15s”).
7. Florida Keys Community College Main Campus
City: Stock Island, FL
Category: Retirement
Telephone: (305) 296-9081
Address: 5901 W. College Rd.
Description: The main campus of Florida Keys Community College offers many more classes of interest to seniors than the other branches up the Keys. Art classes in ceramics, stained glass, jewelry making, lettering and calligraphy, drawing, wheel throwing, printmaking, photography, graphic arts, painting, and sculpture will intrigue the artistically inclined. FKCC has a beautiful swimming pool and offers classes in water aerobics and fitness swimming. Seniors can take classes as non-degree-seeking students or work toward an associate of arts or associate of science degree.Lifelong learning doesn’t necessarily mean that you must enroll in a degree program or semester-long course. FKCC also offers a variety of continuing education workshops and seminars. These classes may meet for a single session or several weeks, depending on the complexity of the subject matter.
8. The American Red Cross Of Greater Miami And The Florida Keys
City: Stock Island, FL
Category: Retirement
Telephone: (305) 296-4033
Address: 5450 McDonald Ave., Unit 11
Description: Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881 and now there are more than 1,300 chapters nationwide. Everyone knows what this humanitarian organization means to any community, near and far. The services rendered on a local basis range from emergency relief to health and safety education and everything in between.
9. Key West Tropical Forest & Botanical Garden
City: Stock Island, FL
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (305) 296-1504
Address: 5210 College Rd.
Description: Maintained by volunteers from the Key West Botanical Garden Society and funded by donations since 1935, this 11-acre garden represents the last undeveloped native hardwood hammock in the environs of Key West. Despite its proximity to US 1 and a busy public golf course, the garden is surprisingly peaceful. It features exotic and native plants that can be viewed from a series of walking trails and is home to numerous birds and butterflies, especially during the spring and fall migration seasons. On any given day, you’re apt to see a turtle sunning itself on a log or an egret searching for food in Desbiens Pond. You can also sit in the quiet, restored Toppino Nature Chapel.
10. Tennessee Williams Fine Arts Center
City: Stock Island, FL
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (305) 296-1520 or (305) 295-76
Address: 5901 West College Rd.
Description: The Tennessee Williams Fine Arts Center (TWFAC) opened in January 1980 on the campus of Florida Keys Community College with the world premiere of Tennessee Williams’s unpublished play Will Mr. Merriweather Return from Memphis? Named for one of Key West’s most illustrious writers, this 478-seat, air-conditioned theater features a thrust stage extending 8 feet in front of the curtain line, a fly system, and a state-of-the-art lighting and sound system. The Tennessee Williams Fine Arts Center produces a full season of dance, theater, chamber music, and shows by nationally known performing artists. Professional touring companies, like Spamalot and Pilobolus, bring a wave of nationally and internationally recognized artists to the Florida Keys.
11. Florida Keys Community College
City: Stock Island, FL
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (305) 296-9081
Address: 5901 West College Rd.
Description: Florida Keys Community College stages 4 art shows a year in the Library Gallery. Invitational shows are held in Oct and Feb, and the Florida Artist series is showcased in Jan and Feb. Student work is exhibited during the month of Apr.