Escambia Bay

Escambia Bay is a bay located in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties, in the far western Florida Panhandle. The city of Pensacola is located on the western side, and the town of Milton is located on the northeastern end of the two-pronged bay. Both places are the county seats of the respective counties. Unusually, Escambia Bay is connected to open waters via Pensacola Bay to its southeast. It is fed primarily by the Escambia River.

Escambia Bay (upper center) is east of Pensacola, Florida.

National Airlines Flight 193, a Boeing 727, crashed into Escambia Bay during a descent into Pensacola Regional Airport on May 8, 1978. There were 3 fatalities among the 58 people on board.

During Hurricane Ivan in September 2004, the storm surge from the Gulf of Mexico came into Escambia Bay, washing out the Interstate 10 Escambia Bay Bridge.

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Coastal waters of Florida
Bays	Apalachicola Biscayne Blackwater Choctawhatchee East Escambia Estero Florida Palm Palma Sola Pensacola Perdido Ponce de Leon Sarasota St. Andrews St. Joseph Tampa Whitewater
Inlets	Baker's Haulover Blind Pass Captiva Pass Caxambas Pass Gasparilla Pass Hillsboro Lake Worth Matanzas Ponce de Leon Redfish Pass Sebastian South Lake Worth St. Lucie
Lagoons	Banana River Guana River Halifax River Indian River Lake Worth Marquesas Keys Matanzas River Mosquito Lagoon
See also	Florida Everglades Intracoastal Waterway List of Florida rivers