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Yankee Freedom is featured in the Professional Mariner

New Dry Tortugas ferry is fast, green, comfortable Apr 28, 2014 12:23 PM Photos and story by Brian Gauvin On a winter’s day, the 70-mile crossing from Key West, Fla., to Dry Tortugas ...

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Dry Tortugas National Park Economic Benefits

New Report shows visitor spending supports 33 jobs in local economy and created $3.2 million in revenue for local businesses in Key West. HOMESTEAD, Florida – A new National Park Service ...

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Forbidding fortress set amid splendor of Keys

NorthJersey.com - The Washington Post By Fergus Bordewich Published: December 24, 2011 Our first sight of Fort Jefferson from our excursion boat, the Yankee Freedom, was of a thin dark scratch across the ...

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7 National Parks You’ve Never Heard of

CNN Travel By Ryan Murphy Published: November 11, 2011 On November 7, Great Falls in Paterson, New Jersey, became the latest addition to the national park family. After a long fight by Paterson ...

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The Big Year’ Could Give Florida Birding a Big Boost

FoxNews.com By Chelle Koster Walton Published: October 16, 2011 "The Big Year," a comedy about competitive birders played by Owen Wilson, Jack Black, and Steve Martin, opened in theatres this weekend. Based on Mark ...

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The Florida Big Week

The Miami Herald - Florida Travel By Chelle Koster Walton Published: 10-17-11 In a state that’s a major stop on birds’ fall migration route, here’s a guide for spotting some of the 485 ...

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15 Secret Islands You Need to Visit Now

Florida Travel + Life By Claudia Miller Published: April 2011 The sun casts a soft glow on a crisp clear morning in Key West's Historic Seaport as I board the Yankee Freedom, the ...

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PVA Announces 2010 Roger Murphy National Maritime Safety Award Winner

The Maritime Executive February 8, 2011, Alexandria, VA — Captain Cory Gauron, Yankee Roamer, Key West, FL is the recipient of the 2010 Roger Murphy Maritime Safety Award. The award was ...

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CBS News From Lesser Known, Gorgeous National Parks

Dry Tortugas, Fla. Why go? It's the seventh least-visited national park, with only about 52,000 visitors in 2009. Best-known for its birding colonies and rich marine life, it's one of the ...

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Ocala Style Magazine From 12 Keys To The Keys

“A Bucket-List Experience” The trip aboard the Yankee Freedom ferry was worth every penny and I only regret that I hadn't done it sooner.

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USA Today 10 Great Places to Explore Nooks and Crevasses

“One of 10 great places to explore nooks and crevasses” Earth Day marks its 40th anniversary next week, but Garry Hayes celebrates the planet all the time. The professor and creator ...

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National Park Service selects Yankee Freedom LLC, to operate Ferry Service between Key West, FL, and Dry Tortugas National Park

YANKEE FREEDOM RECOGNIZED FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICES

Key West, Fl Published: Tuesday December 16, 2008 ON December 3, 2008, Chris Belland, CEO of Historic Tours of America representing Yankee Roamer, Inc., accepted the First Honorable Mention Award for environmental ...

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DRY TORTUGAS: ONLY 70 MILES WEST OF KEY WEST…WORTH THE TRIP

One in a series of occasional Florida travel articles Key West, Fl Published: May 2008 By Warren Resen, Member of the Florida Outdoor Writers Association If you found yourself on an island out in ...

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A Forgotten Fort At the End of Nowhere

New York Times By MICHAEL CONNOR Published: November 20, 1988 BEYOND the glitter of Miami and the party lights of Key West there is a bit of America that borders on nowhere. At ...

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Dry Tortugas – Our Favorite Places

Scott Croft NATIONAL PARK In the middle of the ocean at the end of the Florida Keys sits a structure so bold that it's been called the "Gibraltar of the Gulf." Precariously ...

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Courageous African Americans Honored

Official Newspaper of Dry Tortugas National Park, Vol. 2, Number 1 National Park Services Department of Interior Shortly after midnight on July 10, 1847, seven enslaved African Americans fled Garden Key. The courageous ...

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The Curious History Of Dry Tortugas National Park

Daniel Dustin "His stories were what frightened people worst of all. Dreadful stories they were -- about hanging, and walking the plank, and storms at sea, and the Dry Tortugas" ... ...

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Lonely fort in an azure sea tops our finds in far-flung Florida

By Brian J. Cantwell Northwest Weekend editor KEY WEST, Fla. — I met Tortugas Jack early one morning at quayside near where the spearminty waters of the Gulf of Mexico swirl into ...

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Performance Track Accepts 19 New Facilities

On August 30, 2004, EPA announced 19 new facilities from 11 states and Puerto Rico for membership in Performance Track. EPA also welcomes the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, which ...

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The Tortugas Triangle

Daniel J. Lenihan Lying in the Gulf of Mexico at its juncture with the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, the Dry Tortugas were discovered by Ponce de Leon in 1513. "They ...

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Good Morning America onboard the Yankee Freedom

ABC News Weekend Window: Dry Tortugas National Park Bird Watchers Paradise: More than 300 species migrate to the Area By TRACEY MARX and IMAEYEN IBANG About 70 miles southwest of Key West, Fla. and ...

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Yankee Freedom featured in Rachael Ray Magazine

“One of the coolest things to do in Key West...” One of the coolest things to do in Key West is to leave Key West - and get on the air-conditioned ...

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NBC 6’s Hank Tester live from Fort Jefferson

by Hank Tester “So if we do this story why don’t we go live from Fort Jefferson?” That was NBC6 chief photographer Mike Zimmer, architect of some of Channel Six’s more daring ...

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Certified Green

By Karen Rainbolt, Foghorn Managing Editor The Yankee Freedom has a distinct honor: it has been certified "green" by both the environmental protection agency and it has earned an environmental award ...

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