Ft. Barrancas hold the southern end of the land defense of the Pensacola Navy yards. It also provided additional fire for the channel entrance should ships get past Ft. Pickens and Ft. McRee.

Its has an extremly small parade ground but entensive scarp and counterscarp rifle galleries. Below the white structure is a Spainish fort modified into a water battery with a steep tunnel between the two.

There is a virtual geocahce here (GCCBAC) based of the sign about the guns at the visitor center.

counterscarp_gallery.jpg	counterscarp_howitzers.jpg	counterscarp.jpg	crossfort1.jpg
crossfort2.jpg	drawbridge_in.jpg	drawbridge_out.jpg	dscn0601.jpg
dscn0633.jpg	dscn0634.jpg	dscn0637.jpg	dscn0642.jpg
dscn0647.jpg	dscn0648.jpg	ft_barrancas.jpg	gorge1.jpg
hotshot_furnace.jpg	sallyport.jpg	sanded_arches.jpg	scarp_gallery2.jpg
scarp_gallery.jpg	sea_scarp.jpg	stairs_fromabove.jpg	steep_stairs.jpg
terreplain2.jpg	terreplain.jpg	to_water_battery.jpg	upper_tunnel.jpg
well.jpg	westditch.jpg

Links

A Bat

GCCBAC: Military History Series - Fort Barrancas