Community guides

Popular communities on Marco Island

Every guide below covers one Marco Island community: what it actually is, what the water is (and is not), and the honest trade-off against its neighbours. For the market as a whole, see Marco Island real estate.

The entrance at Cape Marco, a gated community on Marco Island, Florida, on the Gulf.

Cape Marco

Gulf-front beach · No golf · Gated

Cape Marco: six guard-gated towers on the southwestern tip of Marco Island, with private South Beach access and a day-use dock on Caxambas Pass.

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An aerial view of the Estates on Marco Island, Florida: large single-family homes on wide deep-water canals with private docks and boats behind them, generous lawns and mature palms, and the towers of the resort and beach district standing well off in the distance.

Estates

Gulf access · No golf · Not gated

Marco Island Estates: half-acre-plus lots on the southern tip, with deep bridge-free Gulf access through Caxambas Pass. What to check before you buy.

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An aerial view of Hideaway Beach Club on Marco Island, Florida: houses set behind a tidal lagoon, with preserved mangrove and dune between them and a wide white beach on the Gulf, and no dock behind the homes.

Hideaway Beach Club

Gulf-front beach · Golf · Gated

Hideaway Beach Club on Marco Island: guard-gated, roughly 2.5 miles of private beach, and club membership that comes with the deed. What ownership actually involves.

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The Key Marco entrance sign on Marco Island, Florida: the name in green beneath a gold pineapple on a curved stucco monument, reading Captain John F. Horr's Island beneath it, with date palms either side, banks of flowers in front and an egret standing among them.

Key Marco

Gulf access · No golf · Gated

Key Marco: a gated community of just over 130 homesites on its own island across Barfield Bay, off the southeast of Marco Island. Gulf-access water, no golf.

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