Lovers Key State Park, State park in Lee County, United States

Lovers Key State Park covers 712 acres across Lover's Key, Black Island, Inner Key and Long Key, four barrier islands between Big Carlos Pass and New Pass. A two-mile beach runs along Lovers Key, while Black Island holds over five miles of multiuse trails through sand dune, coastal strand, maritime hammock and mangrove swamp. The entrance has a chain-link gate with a brown "PARK ENTRANCE" sign and a blue self-payment station.

In 1968 a Miami-based developer, Floyd Luckey, bought Black Island and Inner Key for the Sengra corporation, co-owned with the Graham family. A 1970 report on mosquitoes and declining mangroves was used to justify dredging an artificial canal, and the leftover fill raised the remaining land after its vegetation was cleared. The state acquired the land in 1983 and opened the park in 1996, merging it with the former Carl E. Johnson County Park.

The welcome and discovery centre on Black Island has seasonally changing hours and exhibits on the park's habitats and its human history. Visitors can learn how the islands were dredged and cleared before becoming a park.

The park is open from 8:00 am until sundown year-round, and a welcome and discovery centre on Black Island has seasonally changing hours. Black Island holds over five miles of multiuse trails, while the beach on Lovers Key runs about two miles. Bicycle, canoe and kayak rentals are available, and the entrance has a self-payment station.

Black Island's vegetation was clearcut and its soil raised with dredged fill in the 1970s, so its woods hold fewer species than neighbouring islands; woodpeckers, hawks, owls and warblers are the birds to watch for there. The park lists over 40 bird species, among them roseate spoonbills, osprey, snowy egrets, bald eagles and American kestrels.