• Named for developer Eugene Elliott's 1920s plan to make Weedon Island the "Riviera of Florida," when a dragline dredged and deepened the bay
  • Riviera Bay Park on Macoma Drive NE, an 8.1-acre city park with tennis and basketball courts, a playground, a community garden, and lighted walking trails
  • Weedon Island Preserve, about 3,000 acres on Tampa Bay with boardwalks, a fishing pier, and paddling trails, about 2 miles away
  • Gandy Boulevard and the nearly 3-mile Gandy Bridge to Tampa, with Tampa International Airport about 14 miles away
  • About 6 miles north of downtown St. Petersburg by way of 4th Street North