“Dry Tortugas National Park and the Marquesas are uninhabited, remote islands west of the Florida Keys without the infrastructure or means to sustain occupancy long term and accessible only by boat or ...

The Florida Keys’ Dry Tortugas National Park plans to shut down due to a sudden influx of hundreds of immigrants. The park estimates that the closure will last for several days. The immigrants, mostly ...

A group of men sit by a brick wall at Fort Jefferson on Garden Key within the Dry Tortugas National Park, with laundry hung to dry behind them. The National Park Service closed the Tortugas Sunday, ...

A massive wave of migrants arrived in the Florida Keys over the weekend, as some 500 people believed to be from Cuba and other parts of the Caribbean came ashore in what local officials described as a ...

Six-sided Fort Jefferson sits on Garden Key in the Dry Tortugas and was constructed over 40 years in the mid 1800s to stand sentry over the important shipping channel. (Photo courtesy Maria ...

I spent $220 to take a ferry from Key West to Dry Tortugas National Park. The ticket price also included two meals, admission to the park, and an optional tour. The ride was rough, but I'd recommend ...

Seventy miles west of the Florida Keys lay a cluster of small coral islands called the Dry Tortugas. Surrounded by clear turquoise water and rimmed with crystalline sandy beaches, the islands were ...

Photos obtained by the Miami Herald showed more than a dozen makeshift migrant boats and Cuban fishing boats lining the beach of Fort Jefferson in Dry Tortugas National Park — and also underlined why ...