Pensacola Beach Pier
— a long walk over the green, then sky on three sides.
Not only on a wall.
Pensacola Beach Pier, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“A concrete pier that runs 1,471 feet into the Gulf of Mexico from the south side of Santa Rosa Island, the longest such pier on the Florida Gulf coast. It opened in 2001, replacing a wooden pier the hurricanes kept taking. Anglers walk the deck before dawn for king mackerel and cobia; the rest of the day it belongs to the people who came out for the view.
The place, in three passes.
The Pensacola Beach Gulf Pier sits on the south, ocean-facing side of Santa Rosa Island, the long barrier strand that protects the western Florida panhandle from the open Gulf of Mexico. The pier is reached from Pensacola Beach Boulevard, just east of the island's main commercial cluster, and is part of Escambia County's public beach system. The current concrete pier opened in 2001 and runs 1,471 feet from shore, which makes it the longest pier on the Florida Gulf coast. Santa Rosa Island itself is about forty miles long and rarely more than a few hundred yards wide.
From the deck the Gulf reads as a clear translucent green most days, deepening to teal a couple of hundred feet from shore where the sand bottom drops away. The colour is a function of the island's quartz sand, which is among the whitest on the continent. The water column is shallow enough that schools of king mackerel, cobia, and Spanish mackerel are visible from above, and bottlenose dolphins work the channel under the pier on a daily rotation. Stingrays are common in the surf zone.
The pier opens at 6 a.m. daily and closes around sunset, with extended hours in summer. A walk-on pass is a few dollars; a fishing pass is roughly $8.50 and includes the rod-licence coverage. No fishing licence is required separately when fishing from the pier. The Pensacola Beach Gulf Pier sells bait, ice, and tackle at the shore end. Sea-turtle nesting runs May through October and beachfront lights are required to be turtle-amber after dark.
