Explore: Watch: 'Plastic Town,' rusting tanks, plane crashes and more captured at Eglin reservation Outside, they can picnic ... deer live and another fenced area that contains a gopher tortoise.

Eglin Air Force Base is located in northwest Florida, comprising over 640 square miles. This is a military friendly area and also a major tourist attraction due to the white sand beaches.

DESTIN — Eglin Air Force Base officials have no intention of reopening Eglin’s once highly popular East Pass Beach Area. “It’s permanently closed,” Mike Spaits, spokesman for Jackson ...