{"id":372437,"date":"2026-08-15T18:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T18:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/372437\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T18:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T18:28:11","slug":"nw-florida-boat-ramp-closed-until-monday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/372437\/","title":{"rendered":"NW Florida boat ramp closed until Monday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">OKALOOSA COUNTY, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10tv.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WALA<\/a>) &#8211; The Okaloosa Board of County Commissioners posted on its Facebook page Friday, August 14th that the Cinco Bayou Boat Ramp area would be closed beginning Friday evening, August 14th, through Monday morning, August 17th at sunrise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Here is the post: <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">As part of the ongoing improvements to the Cinco Bayou Boat Ramp area, the entire boat ramp will be closed beginning Friday evening, Aug. 14, 2026, through Monday morning, Aug. 17 at sunrise. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Completion of the new parking lot area is expected in the coming weeks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Other boat ramp locations include:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Water Street Boat Ramp &#8211; 99 Water Street, Fort Walton Beach<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Liza Jackson Park Boat Ramp &#8211; 338 Miracle Strip Parkway Southwest, Fort Walton Beach, FL, 32548<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Marler Park Boat Ramp &#8211; 1275 Santa Rosa Blvd, Okaloosa Island, FL 32548<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Meigs Park Boat Ramp &#8211; 45 Meigs Dr, Shalimar, FL 32579<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Walkedge Boat Ramp &#8211; 201 Walkedge Dr SE, Fort Walton Beach, FL 32548<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ricky Street Boat Ramp &#8211; Corner of Harris Road and Rickey Avenue, Fort Walton Beach, FL 32547<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cinco Bayou Improvements include:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u00b7 A new bathroom<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u00b7 16-18 parking spaces for boat trailers<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u00b7 Improved access to the boat ramp<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u00b7 Landscaping<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u00b7 Future dock improvements planned <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WALA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OKALOOSA COUNTY, Fla. (WALA) &#8211; The Okaloosa Board of County Commissioners posted on its Facebook page Friday, August&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-372437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372437","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=372437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}