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Category: Best Attractions & Activities - St. Augustine Attractions & Activities
Address: 1340-A A1A South, St. Augustine, FL 32080
This breathtaking state park includes five miles of sandy beaches, a tidal salt marsh, varied wildlife and numerous outdoor pursuits. Wildlife includes a host of interesting birds including bald eagles, blue heron, osprey and more. Camping, nature trails, water sports and an archaeological site where coquina rock was mined to build the city's...
Castillo de San Marcos National Monument
Category: Best Attractions & Activities - St. Augustine Attractions & Activities
Address: One S Castillo Dr, St. Augustine, FL 32084
Castillo de San Marcos is a 17th-century fort built to protect the settlement of St. Augustine. The fortress is the oldest masonry fort in the United States. Boasting 12-foot thick walls that are 33 feet high built of coquina (a local shell rock), a moat and a drawbridge, the edifice has never fallen to an enemy during attack. Today, visitors...
Category: Best Attractions & Activities - St. Augustine Attractions & Activities
Address: 29 St. George St, St. Augustine, FL 32084
Experience the sights and sounds of a colonial Spanish town when you visit St. Augustine's Colonial Spanish Quarter, an exciting living history museum. Interpreters in period clothing illustrate what day-to-day life was like for Spanish soldiers and their families in 1740. You'll witness blacksmithing, food preparation, leatherworking, candle...
Fountain of Youth Discovery Park
Category: Best Attractions & Activities - St. Augustine Attractions & Activities
Address: 11 Magnolia Ave, Off San Marco Ave N, St. Augustine, FL 32084
Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon heard from natives about a beautiful island of Bimini and set out to find it and possibly also a fountain that would yield eternal youth to those who drank from it. The Fountain of Youth Discovery Park marks the spot where the Spanish explorers including de Leon came ashore. Archaeological discoveries at the site...
Category: Best Attractions & Activities - St. Augustine Attractions & Activities
Address: 75 King St, St. Augustine, FL 32084
Originally the lavish Alcazar Hotel built by Henry Flagler in 1887, the Spanish Renaissance structure now houses the interesting Lightner Museum, which displays an eclectic mix of exhibits. Inside the ornate museum you'll find a varied collection including Native American artifacts, Oriental art, American sculpture, an extensive glass collection...
Category: Best Attractions & Activities - St. Augustine Attractions & Activities
Address: 9600 Oceanshore Blvd, St. Augustine, FL 32080
St. Augustine's Marineland, the world's first oceanarium, affords guests a window to the ocean by allowing them to observe breathtaking dolphin habitats by way of a 1.3 million gallon series of tanks. A myriad of interactive programs (at additional cost) allow visitors to interface with dolphins in an up close and personal way in both shallow and...
Category: Best Attractions & Activities - St. Augustine Attractions & Activities
Address: 271 Charlotte St, St. Augustine, FL 32084
The oldest house in the state has its home in St. Augustine. Occupied since the early 1600s, the site now houses a dwelling that dates to the early 1700s, a garden replete with plants common to early colonists, a museum featuring changing exhibits that outline the home's history and a museum store offering one of the finest selections of local and...
Category: Best Attractions & Activities - St. Augustine Attractions & Activities
Address: 14 St. George St, St. Augustine, FL 32084
Officially America's oldest institution of learning, this little wooden schoolhouse has stood the test of time and remains stationed near the historic city gates as a testament to colonial habitation. Built over 200 years ago of red cedar and cypress wood held together by wooden pegs, the structure is an excellent example of colonial construction...
St. Augustine Alligator Farm and Zoological Park
Category: Best Attractions & Activities - St. Augustine Attractions & Activities
Address: 999 Anastasia Blvd, St. Augustine, FL 32080
One of Florida's oldest visitor attractions, The St. Augustine Alligator Park is more than 100 years old and has awed over one million guests throughout the years. A magnificent display of fearsome alligators and crocodiles, as well as delightful exotic birds occupy the Zoological Park. Interpretive programs including feedings will please both...
Category: Best Attractions & Activities - St. Augustine Attractions & Activities
Address: 81 Lighthouse Ave, St. Augustine, FL 32080
St. Augustine's first lighthouse was actually a watchtower built by the settlement's founder, Pedro Menendez, in 1565. Since that time the lighthouse has been rebuilt and additions made. Today it is a stunning black and white spiral structure with a red top that towers 165 feet above the ground. Over 200 steps lead visitors to an observation deck...
