Coastal Naples · Collier County
The water is the address
Port Royal occupies the southern tip of the Naples peninsula, where the Gulf of Mexico meets Naples Bay. It is the address most often named when people talk about the top of the Naples market, and the reason is less about the houses than about the water.
John Glen Sample, a Chicago advertising man, began assembling the land in 1938 and spent the next two decades turning marshland into the canal system that defines the neighborhood. What he created was a street plan built around dockage rather than views: a network of finger canals reaching inland from the bay, each lot sized to hold a large vessel at a private dock.
Why Gordon Pass matters
Port Royal's defining advantage is direct Gulf access through Gordon Pass with no bridges to clear. For an owner running a sizable yacht, that single fact separates Port Royal from nearly every other waterfront address in Collier County.
It is the reason the neighborhood holds its position through every market cycle, and the reason buyers who have owned elsewhere in Naples eventually find their way here.
The streets
Gordon Drive runs along the beach, and the Gulf-front lots there trade differently from the bay side. Inland, Spyglass Lane, Galleon Drive, Rum Row, Kings Town Drive and Admiralty Parade carry the canal frontage. Lot sizes are generous by Naples standards, and the tree canopy is mature enough that many of the streets read as private.
Who buys here
Buyers in Port Royal are typically on their second or third Naples property, and many arrive from Olde Naples or Aqualane Shores wanting deeper water and more land. The neighborhood turns over slowly. In any given month the active inventory is small, and a significant share of what trades is bought for the lot rather than the house.
Port Royal sits minutes from Third Street South and Fifth Avenue South, which is part of its appeal: the seclusion is real, but the restaurants and galleries are a short drive away.
View Port Royal Listings
