Fort Myers Beach Vacation Rentals

Why not visit the great the great tourist regions of Fort Myers. beach. It is a great place to go on vacation. Why not go on vacation to the great place. It should have great facilities if you are lucky and is a famous tourism region. You should be able to enjhoy decent weather if the weather is good. Hopefully you can buy, rent, sell or hire a holiday accomodation in the region. There may be a villa or a condo or a house to rent if you are lucky.

Points of interest

Edison and Ford Winter Estates

Hammond Stadium in South Fort Myers is the home of the Fort Myers Miracle baseball club of the Florida State League, and is the spring training locale for the Minnesota Twins. The Boston Red Sox hold their spring training at City of Palms Park close to downtown Fort Myers.

Fort Myers hosts the Florida Everblades ECHL hockey team at Germain Arena, and Florida Firecats af2 arena football and the Florida Stingrays AIFA indoor football team at the Lee County Civic Center.

For the golfing enthusiast, the Fort Myers Area (Bonita Springs, Cape Coral, Estero, Lehigh Acres and Sanibel Island) is home to over 50 of Southwest Florida's renowned 130 public and private golf courses. Florida's great weather combined with the scenic and challenging nature of these courses makes the area an excellent stop for the vacationing golfer.

The Calusa Nature Center and Planetarium is a private, not for profit, environmental education organization. Set on a 105 acre site, it has a museum, three nature trails, a planetarium, butterfly and bird aviaries, a gift shop and meeting and picnic areas.

The Winternats R/C car race, attended by people from around the world, takes place annually at the Lee County Civic Center.

The climate of Fort Myers is tropical.

Incorporated in 1886, Fort Myers is the center of a popular tourist area in Southwest Florida and the seat of Lee County. It is located about 120 miles south of Tampa at the meeting point of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caloosahatchee River. Fort Myers was the frequent winter home of Thomas Edison and is the current home of the Boston Red Sox and Minnesota Twins spring training camps.

The first known resident of what is now Fort Myers was Manuel Gonzalez, a Spaniard from the province of Asturias, who came via Cuba in the 19th century.

Fort Myers, built in 1850 as a military fort to fend off Seminole Indians that were massacring the area's few settlers, was named after Col. Abraham C. Myers, who was stationed in Florida for seven years and was the son-in-law of the fort's establisher and commander. In 1858, after years of elusive battle, Chief Billy Bowlegs and his warriors were persuaded to surrender and move west, and the fort was abandoned. Billy's Creek, which flows into the Caloosahatchee River and runs between The Beau Rivage Condominiums and Alta Mar, was named after a temporary camp where Billy Bowlegs and his men awaited ships to take them west.

The fort was abandoned until 1863 when a small number of Federal troops re-occupied the fort during the Civil War. In 1865 the fort was attacked unsuccessfully by a very small group of Confederates. After the war, the fort was again deserted.

The first settlers arrived in 1866, but it wasn't until 1882 when the city experienced a significant influx of settlers. By 1885, when Fort Myers was incorporated, it was the second largest city only to Tampa on Florida's west coast south of Cedar Key even larger than Clearwater and Sarasota, also growing cities at the time.

Fort Myers first became a nationally known winter resort with the building of The Royal Palm Hotel in 1898. But what really sparked the city's growth was the construction of the Tamiami Trail Bridge built across the Caloosahatchee River in 1924. After the bridge's construction, the city experienced its first real estate boom and many subdivisions sprouted around the city.

Lee County is a county located in the US state of Florida. The county makes up the entirety of the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area, and is the most populous county in Southwest Florida. Lee County is a county located in the US state of Florida. The county makes up the entirety of the Cape Coral - Fort Myers, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area, and is the most populous county in Southwest Florida.

Islands in Lee county.

Big Hickory Island (Lovers Key / Carl E. Johnson State Park)
Cabbage Key
Captiva Island
Cayo Costa (Cayo Costa State Park)
Estero Island (Town of Fort Myers Beach)
Gasparilla Island (community of Boca Grande)
Little Hickory Island (Beaches of Bonita Springs)
Matlacha Island
North Captiva Island
Pine Island
San Carlos Island
Sanibel Island (Town of Sanibel)
Useppa Island