Tampa Bay Entrance is a bay entrance between Anna Maria Island and Egmont Key on the west-central Florida coast, leading from the Gulf of Mexico through the Egmont Channel into Tampa Bay. The tide is mixed and small, with a mean range of 1.52 ft (0.46 m) at the Egmont Key station.
- Type
- Bay entrance
- Location
- Florida, United States
- Setting
- Between Anna Maria Island and Egmont Key on the west-central Florida coast, leading from the Gulf of Mexico through the Egmont Channel into Tampa Bay
- Tidal range
- The tide is mixed and small, with a mean range of 1.52 ft (0.46 m) at the Egmont Key station.
- Notable
- The 4.1-mile Sunshine Skyway Bridge (1987) spans the entrance, rebuilt by FDOT after a 1980 freighter strike collapsed the original main span (FDOT).
