Once a popular destination as much for locals as tourists, visitation to historic Fort Barrancas at Naval Air Station Pensacola has been reduced to being open just one day a month. Until 2017, Fort ...

Part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore, the Fort Barrancas Area consists of a visitor center, the Advanced Redoubt, two short hiking trails and its namesake fort. "Barranca" means a deep ravine or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fort Pickens is pictured in an engraving in 1861. Pickens: The first serious confrontation of the Civil War happened in Pensacola ...

The Trump Administration's cuts to the NPS at the beginning of the year had plenty of repercussions for many national parks, state parks, and other tourist sites. A few days ago, Caitlyn Burford, a ...

A raid 150 years ago by Confederate sympathizers on a Union fort at what is now Pensacola Naval Air Station was likely little more than an ill-planned and drunken misadventure, perhaps ended by one ...

The Gulf Islands National Seashore announced Friday it will close Fort Barrancas and the visitor center at 3 p.m. Sunday to allow staff to attend a special event at the Pensacola Blue Wahoos game.

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A raid 150 years ago by Confederate sympathizers on a Union fort at what is now Pensacola Naval Air Station was likely little more than an ill-planned and drunken misadventure, perhaps ended by one ...