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The SignatureWelcome to Cocoa Beach, Florida
Whether your're just thinking about visiting Cocoa Beach or you've visited before and you're planning a return, our small beach community offers great accomodations and a wide variety of attractions for just about any visitor. Within Cocoa Beach you will find six miles of ocean beaches with excellent beach access for one end of the City to the other. We have three oceanfront parks with restrooms, showers, and picnic tables. The City owns and operates the Cocoa Beach Country Club with 27 holes that meander along the Banana River with challenging golf and beautiful water views. At the Sports Complex there is an olympic size swimming pool and tennis courts with lights for evening play. All the major hotel chains are represented as well as smaller "mom & pop" motels and timeshares. There are a wide range of dining choices to fit the taste buds and budget of everyone. A beach trolley system will get you around town easily.
Located on a barrier island and nestled between the great Atlantic Ocean and the Banana River Lagoon, Cocoa Beach was first incorporated in 1925. With the television show "I Dream Of Jeannie" highlighting Cocoa Beach and Kennedy Space Center, the area became even more famous with each telecast of the show and every rocket launch from the Space Center. Today, this community of 12,850 enjoys activities such as swimming, surfing, surf casting, skim boarding, sunbathing on the six miles of ocean beaches. Fishing is a popular pastime for locals and tourists alike, either in the Atlantic or the Indian and Banana Rivers.
AREA ATTRACTIONS
- Kennedy Space Center - Watch a Space Launch for the Beach. Kennedy and Cape Canaveral Space Launch Centers are just a few miles to the North. Even the locals, along with people from all over the world, come out to watch the spectacular views of day and night launches. Or you can spend a day visiting the Space Center less than 30 minutes away.
- The Orlando Area Attractions - Disney World, Epcot, Sea World, Universal and MGM Studios are all within 60 miles, along with Orlando International Airport.
- Cruises - We're just minutes from Florida's second largest cruise port, Port Canaveral. Embark from the world class cruise terminals aboard affordable Caribbean destination Ships including Royal Caribbean, Carnaval, Disney, and short casino day sails. The Q-E2 also makes stops in Port Canaveral several times per year.
- Andretti Thrill Park - Andretti Thrill Park is Melbourne's hottest new family action attraction. Featuring five challenging tracks to test your driving skills, Kart Racing Courses, Bumper Boats, The Wave Rave - a water thrill ride, 18 hole championship Mini Golf, Kiddie Rides, Rio Grande Express Railroad, Laser Tag, Slot-Car Racing and Arcade area.
- Astronaut Hall of Fame - Excitement arises as visitors relive the daring exploits of the first twenty American astronauts. Personal mementos and historic artifacts illustrate the lives of these heroic men. Guests experience the rigors of astronaunt training aboard unique simulators designed to allow adventure seekers to feel the forces of gravity and the thrill of aerial acrobatics.
- Astronaut Memorial Planetarium - The Brevard Community College Astronaut Memorial Planetarium and Observatory (AMPO) was designed primarily as an educational facility to benefit students, teachers, researchers, and the public. The facility offers several unique ways to explore outer space. Underneath its signature 70-foot aluminium dome, the building houses a nuseum honoring space explorers from around the world, a planetarium featuring a first-of-its-kind dual projection system, a fully accessible observatory, a hands-on demonstration hall, and IWERKS movie theater, and a traveling portable planetarium. These features, each inovative on its own, work together to connect Earthbound visitors with the far reaches of our galaxy and beyond. The result is a planetarium which is recognized as the best in the world.
- Brevard Museum of History - Where history comes alive! The Brevard Museum is the official repository of Brevard County artifacts. Hands-on exhibits for adults and children, ongoing exhibits including and archaeological dig of the 7,000+-year-old Windover burial site, the customs of the Ais and Seminoles Indian Tribes, and the quaint village lifestyle of the early 19th Century. We offer guided tours and special programs for groups and a 22-acre Nature Preserve wit several trails that are wheelchair accessible.
- Brevard Zoo - Welcome to the wildest neighborhood on the Space Coast where ov 460 animals representing 126 species from around the world reside in naturalistic settings. Elevated boardwalks guide visitors through a lush tropical tree hammock past a wide variety of animals native to Latin America and Florida including Llama, rhea, giant anteater, tapir, monkeys, exotic birds, alligatiors, crocodiles river otter, bald eagle, red wolf and more. The Australia Exhibit featrures a free flight aviary with cockatoos, lorikeets, budgerigars and laughing kookaburras along with and outback habitat of red kangaroo, emu, and wallaby. Recently opened Flying Fox Forest, featuring giant fruit bats, many exotic species of birds, muntjac and a beautiful orchid garden
- Cocoa Beach Pier - Cocoa Beach Pier is one of the best places on The Space Coast to view a shuttle launch. More than 800 feet of Pier Pleasure awaits you. Eat at any one of the fine restaurants, shop from specialty stores, play volleyball or reel in the big one.The Cocoa Beach Pier has it all. Enjoy beautiful Cocoa Beach from the Pier or catch a shuttle launch from one of the best viewing sites on the Space Coast. Experience Pier Pleasure over 800 feet out over the ocean or enjoy elegant dining, fresh seafoor and panoramic ocean views.
- Forever Florida - Forever Florida is a 3200-acre Central Florida nature preserve adjoining the Crescent J Ranch, a 1300-acre working cattle ranch. A variety of guided nature tours are available as well as horse-drawn covered wagon tours and horseback tours. Enjoy a homestyle meal in our beautiful cypress Visitor Center. Also features bike tours, a pony riding ring, and ranch petting zoo.
- Grasshopper Airboat Ecotours - Capt. Rick Thrift's Grasshopper Airboat Ecotours ooffer a unique and thrilling adventure. Glide across the grassy marshes of the St. John's River and Lake Poinsett on personalized one-hour rides on an authentic custom-built airboat. Coast Guard licensed and insured Captain.
- Inlet Explorer - Tour the exciting Indian River Lagoon aboard the Inlet Explorer. Enjoy watching for dolphins, manatees, and turtles and spotting various native and migrating birds. It is the only local tour where a knowledgeable Park Ranger accompanies you. Hear the colorful and informative tales about the Lagoon, Its unique and diverse ecosystem and local history and lore.
- Jungle Adventures - Jungle Adventures, a world of native animal wonders between Orlando and Kennedy Space Center, features a jungle cruise through alligator habitat, wildlife shows starring Florida panthers, walking tours of the Native American Village, exotic animal exhibits and "Gator Facts" during the alligator feast.
- Ron Jon Surf Shop - Cocoa Beach, Florida became the home to the "One of A Kind" Ron Jon Surf Shop in 1963. Beginning with only 3,000 square feet in a strip mall, Ron Jon Surf Shop of Florida today is truly the most unique "One of A Kind" surfing attraction in the world. Ron Jon Surf Shop has a total of 52,000 square feet, and is open for business 24 hrs per day, 365 days of the year. The remodeled water sports store, which now matches the exterior and the interior design of the surf shop, offers a complete line of water sports equipment including rentals of beach bikes, surfboards, body boards and surf gear.
- Space Coast Stadium - Spring training home of the Florida Marlins, the state's first professional baseball team, the 7,600 seat stadium is swinging with batter's up in March thru September 2, and a cluster of cultural affairs on the diamond throughout the year. The professional season is followed up with the Brevard City Manatees, the Marlins Class A franchise.
- The Museum of Art and Science - The Museum of Art and Science is committed to the exhibition, collection, preservation and appreciation of the visual arts. The Art Museum offers a dynamic schedule of exhibitions by internationally and nationally known artists, as well as Florida artists representing a variety of styles, periods, and media. The Museum has approximately 3,000 works in its permanent collection, primarily modernist and contemporary works on paper. The Ruth Cote Clemente Children's Science Center offers more than 35 hands-on interactive exhibits focusing on the physical sciences. The exhibitions are geared to elementary age learning.
- Valiant Air Command War Bird Museum - More than 350 vintage war planes including Flying Tigers and C-47 Transports are maintained in top flight condition as tours breeze by eras of military aviation from Sopwith Camel bi-plane days through the P-51 Mustang hardships of World War II. The Valiant Air Command is recognized as a historical "flying museum" formed to preserve America's warplanes and its facility is a unique place to visit.
