{"id":25509,"date":"2025-10-29T18:59:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/25509\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T18:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:59:19","slug":"part-of-skyway-fishing-pier-closed-indefinitely-after-fdot-inspection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/25509\/","title":{"rendered":"Part of Skyway Fishing Pier closed indefinitely after FDOT inspection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Access beyond the bait shop is no longer allowed at the park following an inspection from the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT).<\/p>\n<p>MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Effective Monday, part of the Skyway Fishing Pier is closed indefinitely after a structural inspection.<\/p>\n<p>A notice posted on the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridastateparks.org\/parks-and-trails\/skyway-fishing-pier-state-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\u00a0Florida State Parks&#8217; website<\/a> reads that access beyond the bait shop is no longer allowed at the park following an inspection from the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT). That&#8217;s around 0.6 miles of the almost 2-mile-long fishing pier.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bradenton.com\/news\/local\/article312615583.html?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslocal_tampa&amp;stream=top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Bradenton Herald<\/a>, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) says the structure was not originally intended as a park or fishing pier, and that some repairs were not feasible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Visitor safety remains our top priority,\u201d FDEP said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>This closure impacts the Manatee County side of the pier, while the north side remains open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Park officials say vehicles may continue onto the pier up to a point just south of the bait shop, which is still open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Access beyond the bait shop is no longer allowed at the park following an inspection from the Florida&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-25509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}