You’ve got through the park 🚧 gate. From here, find your way to the fort entrance. Drop your 🚲 and prepare to storm the fort. Visiting a brick fortress might seem dry, but next time when you come here, grab a free tour from a Park Ranger—they’ll turn that "black and white" history into a technicolor 🎨 masterpiece.
Find a💣 cannon sitting in front of a closed 🚧 gate. It looks like this.
If you found the canon you stand at the original and only entrance into the Fort. Believe it or not, back in the 1840s, this was an offshore fortress sitting 1,000 feet out at sea. The only way to reach it was a narrow timber path on pilings over the waves. Soldiers and supply wagons moved along this "floating" roadway with the ocean beneath their feet.
By the 1940s, the Navy dredged the harbor and literally "grew" the island out to meet the Fort, swallowing the moat and the path. What started as a sea fortress ended up landlocked!
🆀 11: What was that 1,000-foot "link" over the water commonly referred to?
🅰 11: Eight-letter word
Back to the 🚲! You’ll pass the 🚻 public bathrooms on your way—hit 'em now if the 🍹 are catching up to you. Once you’re back in the saddle, ride to the very 🔚 of the 🌳, cross the 🅿️, and wiggle between the 🪨 boulders. Stash your 🚲 at the stand right behind the rocks.
👣 🧭 S toward the beach/ocean. You’ve arrived at the 👑 of Key West 🏖️s (that makes three today, but who’s counting?). Near the beach, you’ll find a 🟡 and ⚪ striped 🪧.
🆀 12: What is the very last word written on that striped sign?
🅰 12: Five-letter word