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On the Space Coast in Brevard County, where rockets go up from Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center.
The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex has three viewing areas: the lawn beside the Space Shuttle Atlantis building, about 7 miles from the pads and included with admission; the Banana Creek area at the Apollo/Saturn V Center, about 4 to 6 miles away and also included when that center is open; and the Gantry at LC-39, the closest at about 2 to 3 1/2 miles, sold in addition to admission. Outside the gates, the county's tourism office lists Playalinda Beach in Canaveral National Seashore, the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in Titusville, the shores of the Indian River Lagoon, Jetty Park at Port Canaveral, the Westgate Cocoa Beach Pier and the Cocoa Beach beaches, and Sebastian Inlet State Park. Whether the visitor complex opens a launch for viewing depends on the launch window, the pad, Space Force range safety and NASA approval, and each viewing opportunity is posted on its events calendar.
Brevard County. The bus tour goes through the security gates onto Kennedy Space Center itself, stopping at the Gantry at Launch Complex 39 and at the Apollo/Saturn V Center. Back at the visitor complex, attractions and tours are grouped by era, from the earliest space programs through to current missions.
Open the guide →Brevard County. Canaveral National Seashore protects nearly 58,000 acres of barrier island, open lagoon, coastal hammock and pine flatwoods, including 24 miles of undeveloped beach that provides nesting ground for several thousand protected sea turtles.
Open the guide →Brevard County. Undeveloped shoreline inside Canaveral National Seashore, north of Titusville. A vehicle entrance fee applies. Nothing is built behind the dune and there is no commercial frontage anywhere along it. One of the best rocket launch viewpoints in the county, and it closes around major launches and in bad weather, so check before driving out.
Open the guide →Brevard County. At the mouth of Port Canaveral, with a fishing pier, a campground and a camp store opened in 2025. Day passes and annual passes are sold online. Cruise ships pass close to the sand on turnaround days, and it is one of the nearest public viewpoints to the launch pads.
Open the guide →Brevard County. The best-known stretch of sand in the county and the one most visitors mean when they say they are going to the beach. Hotels, shops and restaurants face the ocean, and the pier sits at the east end of State Road 520.
Open the guide →Brevard County. $8 per vehicle, open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, at the southern end of the county. Two jetties reach into the Atlantic and the breaks off them - First Peak and Monster Hole - bring surfers from outside Florida.
Open the guide →Population 632,780. Typical home sale price $368,859 in the three months ending June 2026; typical condo $229,000 in May 2026. Median household income $78,476; 24.5% of residents are 65 or older. (Source: Redfin; U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, published January 2026)
Open the county guide →Zoo Miami is the largest zoo in Florida: almost 750 acres, more than 2,000 animals of over 375 species and 4 miles of walkways, and it describes itself as the only subtropical zoo in the continental United States.
The Dali Museum in St. Petersburg holds more than 2,400 works by Salvador Dali, in every medium he worked in; it opened in 1982 and moved into its present building on January 11, 2011.
Fifteen Major League teams train in Florida, in the Grapefruit League. Around Tampa Bay: the Yankees in Tampa, the Phillies in Clearwater, the Blue Jays in Dunedin, the Pirates in Bradenton, the Orioles in Sarasota and the Tigers in Lakeland.
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