Bonita Springs is a city in Lee County, Florida, United States. The population was 43,914 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area, on the state’s southwest coast.

Points of interest include Barefoot Beach, a 342-acre park located on the border of Collier and Lee Counties.

In 2013, Forbes ranked the park’s beach the sixth-best in the country Bonita Beach Park, a 2.5-acre beachfront park with a boardwalk and swimming area Center for the Arts of Bonita Springs – an arts organization that hosts local, regional and national traveling art exhibitions. The organization has two campuses, the 10-acre Center for Visual Arts with galleries, studios, classrooms, art library, and offices; and 1. 8 miles south, the 4-acre Center for Performing Arts, which has two auditoriums, a black box theater, a film center, music rooms and studios for study of performing arts. The organization’s Bonita Springs Art Festivals, are held January, February, and March in downtown Bonita Springs Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, a bald cypress reserve under management of the National Audubon Society Everglades Wonder Gardens, features a large collection of Florida wildlife, including exotic birds, panthers, alligators, flamingos, and bears. The facility opened in 1936 as both a wildlife exhibition and a refuge for injured animals and has a botanical garden and a natural history museum Little Hickory Island Beach Park

Lover’s Key State Park, a 1,616-acre park made up of four barrier islands, is within the city and just north of Bonita Beach. It has nature trails for hiking and bicycling, a canoe launch, kayak and canoe rentals, acres of unspoiled mangroves and miles of pristine beaches. A haven for wildlife, the islands and their waters are home to West Indian manatees, bottlenose dolphins, roseate spoonbills, marsh rabbits and bald eagles There are also 10 beach accesses with public parking up and down Bonita Beach