Emerald Harbor is a residential community located 2.2 miles from the north end of Longboat Key and 7.7 miles from the south end. Its pristine land was first offered for private home-ownership development in 1959. Emerald Harbor consists of 82 beautifully landscaped properties, all approximately 0.3-0.6 acres in size and all fronting on wide, deep-water canals.
The canals in Emerald Harbor provide easy access to and from Sarasota Bay and the Intercoastal Waterway. Both its roads and the canals are publicly maintained; however, the sea walls lining its canals are privately maintained, and all access to the canals via Emerald Harbor property is private.
A landscaped common entry/exit for Emerald Harbor fronts on Gulf of Mexico Drive. Traffic there is monitored via strategically placed cameras. Along the exit road is a canal-frontage pullover, renowned island-wide for exceptional manatee-family viewing. Up-close observation of tropical aquatic mammals, fish, and birds are routine parts of the Emerald Harbor property-owner experience.
Emerald Harbor features a 20-foot-wide, white-sand, Gulf-beach frontage with benches. This frontage is accessed via an equally wide, foliage-lined, maintained path from Gulf of Mexico Drive that begins directly across from the Emerald Harbor common entry/exit. The beach frontage and access path are private and for the benefit of Emerald Harbor property owners and their guests only.
Emerald Harbor property owners are both year-around and seasonal residents; both retired and working professionals.
The Emerald Harbor Association is a not-for-profit corporation, comprised of all property owners in good standing, and its Board of Directors is community-based. Annual membership dues provide for the maintenance and improvement of all community assets.
Police, fire-rescue, paramedic, and municipal services are close by, as are a world-renowned restaurants.
