Parking at Longboat Key is free at several lots. Compare 3 nearby lots and garages by price, walking distance and how full each one is right now, plus metered street parking. Lot locations, rates and hours are real and geocoded. Tap a pin for driving directions.
3 lots · 200 spaces. Scrub the time slider for the crowd estimate.
On-street parking
60 metered spaces · Free (limited) · Gulf of Mexico Dr and perpendicular streets — residential, very limited. Pay by plate or ParkMobile.
Local moves
Longboat Key is NOT a mass-tourism beach — parking is intentionally limited. The 21 small accesses fill on good-weather weekends.
Arrive early or late. The 8 AM crowd and the post-4 PM crowd have far better luck than the 11 AM crowd.
Mar Vista Dockside has a small lot; if you're dining there, use it and walk to the beach before your reservation.
St. Armands Circle (15 min south) has large garages if you want to combine the beach with shopping.
Parking at Longboat Key is free at several lots.
Yes. Longboat Key has free parking at Gulf Beach Public Accesses, Bayfront Park, Greer Island / Beer Can Access. Free spaces are limited and fill first, so arrive early or have a paid backup in mind.
Longboat Key has 3 lots within walking distance; the largest is Gulf Beach Public Accesses (120 spaces). The lots nearest the sand fill first, so the ones a block or two back usually have room. Use the live map above to compare walking distance and how full each lot is right now.
On warm, sunny weekend days the closest Longboat Key lots fill by mid-morning. Arrive before 10 AM or after 4 PM for the easiest parking, and scrub the time slider on the map above for the crowd estimate hour by hour.
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Lot locations, counts, rates and hours are real, geocoded from each address. No live space-count feed is published, so availability is estimated from typical beach crowds and today’s weather. Your location is used only in your browser to sort by distance.
Main parking at Longboat Key: Gulf Beach Public Accesses (Free) and Greer Island / Beer Can Access (Free), plus street parking at Free (limited). Check today’s water, surf and UV on the conditions page.