Little Gasparilla Island is a tropical barrier Island paradise located just off the Southwest Coast of Florida's Cape Haze. Situated halfway between Sarasota and Ft. Myers at the mouth of Charlotte Harbor, Little Gasparilla Island benefits from cool tropical breezes in the summer and warm sunshine in the winter. There used to be separate Islands: Palm Island, Knight Island, Don Pedro Island and Little Gasparilla Island. Following a storm in the 60s which closed the passes, the Islands became one, with Little Gasparilla being the southernmost.
There are no roads and no cars or traffic on LGI. The Island offers 7 miles of beautiful pristine beach unspoiled by either seawalls or high-rises. North of Little Gasparilla Island now is the Don Pedro State Park. During the summer, the beach is a nesting spot for endangered sea turtles which lay their eggs in the warm sand near the dunes.