Jupiter Island

Jupiter Island is a barrier island on the coast of Martinand Palm Beach counties, Florida. It is bounded on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the north by the St. Lucie Inlet, on the west by the Indian River, and on the south by the Jupiter Inlet, Jupiter Island originally was two islands, Long Island on the north and Jupiter Island on the south, which were once separated by an inlet in the vicinity of North Jupiter Narrows and what is officially called Peck Lake, but commonly called Peck's Lake.

Palm Beach County portion

Jupiter Inlet Colony

The small exclusive town of Jupiter Inlet Colony occupies the southern tip of the island. ["Map of North Palm Beach County, Florida", Pinellas Park: Precision Maps, 2004, distributed by AAA]

Village of Tequesta

The village of Tequesta, which is primarily located on the mainland, abuts Jupiter Inlet Colony on the north. In the middle of the Tequesta portion of the island is Coral Cove Park, which is unincorporated. ["Map of North Palm Beach County, Florida", Pinellas Park: Precision Maps, 2004, distributed by AAA]

Unincorporated Palm Beach County

There are two unincorporated Palm Beach County areas on the island: ["Map of North Palm Beach County, Florida", Pinellas Park: Precision Maps, 2004, distributed by AAA]
*Coral Cove Park, a county park which runs from the ocean to the intracoastal, is abutted by Tequesta on its north and south sides.
*A strip of the island from the northernmost Tequesta village limits to the Palm Beach-Martin county line.

Martin County portion

Town of Jupiter Island

The very exclusive town of Jupiter Island begins at the Palm Beach-Martin county line and extends north to include the southern portion of the Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge. [Dolph's Map of Stuart and Hobe Sound and vicinity, Florida, Fort Lauderdale: Dolph Map Co., Inc., 2002.]

Unincorporated Martin County

Unincorporated Martin County run north from the northern Jupiter Island town limits to the St. Lucie Inlet and includes the following: [Dolph's Map of Stuart and Hobe Sound and vicinity, Florida, Fort Lauderdale: Dolph Map Co., Inc., 2002.]
* The northern part of the Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge, and
* St. Lucie Inlet Preserve State Park, which runs north from the Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge to the St. Lucie Inlet and is accessible only by boat.

Transportation

The principal north-south road on the Jupiter Island is Beach Road from the foot of the bridge in Tequesta north to where it dead ends just south of the northern line of the Town of Jupiter Island. Beach Road is also State Road 707, now a county road of each county, from the Tequesta Bridge north to Bridge Road in the town of Jupiter Island, where 707 turns left onto Bridge Road to go to Hobe Sound, via the Hobe Sound Bridge. ["Map of North Palm Beach County, Florida", Pinellas Park: Precision Maps, 2004, distributed by AAA]

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References

External links

* [http://www.fws.gov/hobesound/ Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge FWS site]
* [http://www.nature.nps.gov/nnl/Registry/USA_Map/States/Florida/nnl/rwss/index.cfm Reed Wilderness Seashore Sanctuary NPS ite]
* [http://www.floridastateparks.org/stlucieinlet/default.cfm St. Lucie Inlet Preserve State Park official website]
* [http://areas.wildernet.com/pages/area.cfm?areaID=FLSPSL&CU_ID=1 St. Lucie Inlet State Preserve wildernet site]