Most write-ups of Navarre's shopping treat the beach as the whole story. The part that quietly matters more to people who live here happens a mile inland, on a stretch of Highway 87 half a mile north of US-98, where two separate open-air markets share the same Saturday morning and almost the same address.
The two are run by different people, operate on different calendars, and are usually written about as if they had nothing to do with each other. They do. If you live in Navarre and you know which Saturdays overlap, you can park once and walk between them.
The Half-Mile That Matters
Pik-itZ Art and Antiques sits at 1922 Highway 87 in Navarre, on the east side of the highway, roughly half a mile north of US-98. Its outdoor market runs from the store's own lot. Two doors south, Sand Dollar Plaza at 1900 Hwy 87 hosts the Hwy 87 Market at the back of its parking lot, organized as part of Sand Dollar Saturday by Michelle Massey.
The addresses are 22 numbers apart. On foot, the walk between them is short enough that you never move the car. That physical closeness is the whole point of this post, because the two operations do not think of themselves as one event and are almost never mentioned together in the same paragraph.
The Calendar Most Residents Have Never Actually Compared
The two markets run on different schedules, and this is where the local read starts to pay off.
- Pik-itz Open Air Market: every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., with more than 30 vendors selling local art, crafts, baked goods, dairy products, honey, and other homemade or handmade items.
- Hwy 87 Market at Sand Dollar Plaza: held on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month, featuring artists, food vendors, crafters, and other sellers set up at the back of the plaza.
Overlay the two calendars and a pattern falls out. On the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of any month, both markets are live at the same time on the same block. On the 2nd, 4th, and any 5th Saturday, only Pik-itz is running. The Sand Dollar side goes quiet, and the plaza returns to its regular Sand Dollar Saturday rhythm, with the plaza's own merchants featuring products and specials as they do each week.
For a resident, that means the calendar has two distinct modes:
- Stacked Saturday (1st, 3rd): two markets, one walk.
- Solo Saturday (2nd, 4th, 5th): Pik-itz plus whatever Sand Dollar Plaza's storefronts are running that week.
Neither is better than the other. They are different Saturdays, and knowing which is which is the difference between showing up expecting a crowd and showing up expecting a quieter browse.
What a Normal Saturday at Pik-itz Actually Looks Like
Pik-itz is the anchor because it runs every week. The store itself is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday from 12 to 4 p.m., but the outdoor market gets there earlier and is the reason most locals come.
Because vendors are drawn from local makers, the mix skews toward what you would expect from a working coastal community rather than a tourist stall. Over 30 vendors sell local art, crafts, baked goods, dairy products, honey, and plenty of fun surprises, and the outdoor market, now open every Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., offers an open-air experience and a way to spend a Saturday checking out what local people are making and selling, while also meeting neighbors.
The practical takeaway for a resident: this is a standing appointment, not an event. If a Saturday morning opens up and you did not plan anything, Pik-itz is already there. That reliability is what makes it a household routine rather than a calendar entry.
What Sand Dollar Saturday Adds on the 1st and 3rd
The second market is the variable. Hwy 87 Market is an outdoor market held on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month, across multiple venues on Highway 87 in Navarre, with vendors at Sand Dollar Plaza set up at the back of the plaza.
The lineup leans harder into food and prepared items. Booths offer food, art, decor, and much more, and the market is timed to run alongside the plaza's own merchant specials. For a resident, a stacked Saturday tends to look like this: coffee and baked goods at one end, produce or prepared food at the other, and a browse through the plaza's storefronts on the way back to the car.
Vendors interested in setting up can reach the organizer at 850-368-9500 or through the Sand Dollar Saturdays Facebook page, and applications go through [email protected]. That matters if you are a local maker thinking about turning a hobby into a stall, and it is the kind of contact information that never surfaces in a national roundup post.
A Resident's Loop, in Order
If you have never treated the two as one morning, the sequence that works is this:
- Park once at Sand Dollar Plaza at 1900 Hwy 87. On stacked Saturdays, the Hwy 87 Market vendors are behind the building. On solo Saturdays, the plaza's own storefronts are the reason to start here.
- Walk north along the east side of Highway 87 to Pik-itz at 1922. The distance is short enough that most residents do it without moving the car, and the outdoor stalls at Pik-itz are visible from the road.
- Do the browse at Pik-itz first if you want the widest vendor selection, since the weekly market draws the larger crowd. Do it second if you are picking up baked goods or dairy and want them last in the car.
- Loop back to the plaza. On the 1st and 3rd Saturdays, this is when the two markets read as one continuous morning. On other Saturdays, it becomes an errand plus a shop.
The loop is not a tour. It is a rhythm. Residents who do it a few times stop thinking of the two markets as separate at all.
The Rainy-Saturday Fallback
Two open-air markets on a Gulf Coast summer morning means weather is part of the plan. Pik-itz has an indoor store to fall back into, since the shop keeps regular Monday through Saturday hours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and can absorb browsers when the outdoor stalls do not set up. The Sand Dollar side, being tied to specific Saturdays, is more sensitive to weather, and a washout on a 1st or 3rd Saturday effectively removes half the reason to go.
The workable rule for residents: if the forecast is uncertain on a stacked Saturday, aim for the earlier end of the 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. window rather than the later end. If the forecast is uncertain on a solo Saturday, Pik-itz alone is worth the drive and the store is a covered exit.
The Quiet Part Nobody Says Out Loud
The reason this Highway 87 corner works is that it is not trying to be a downtown. Navarre does not have one. What it has is a working stretch of road where two small businesses independently decided that Saturday morning was worth staffing an outdoor market, and where the timing accidentally lined up in a way that rewards people who live nearby and can show up in flip-flops.
Residents already sensed this. What most guides miss is the specific calendar overlap, the specific 22-number address gap, and the fact that the 2nd, 4th, and 5th Saturdays feel different from the 1st and 3rd on purpose. Once you see the pattern, the market district is impossible to unsee.
Sara Davis lives and works this market from a Gulf Breeze base, and the Navarre corner of the practice is built on the kind of small, local details that only show up when you spend Saturdays on the ground. If you are thinking about a move within Navarre, or from somewhere else in the Pensacola-to-Destin corridor, Sara Davis Homes is where to start the conversation. Start your coastal home journey.
