Westgate Cocoa Beach Pier in Brevard County, Florida

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Brevard County attraction

Westgate Cocoa Beach Pier

Brevard County · Atlantic Coast

Eight hundred feet of pier built in 1962, working as an entertainment strip rather than a plain fishing pier, with volleyball courts on the sand beneath.

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The Westgate Cocoa Beach Pier runs 800 feet out over the Atlantic and works as a small entertainment strip rather than a plain fishing pier, with restaurants and bars along its length, an arcade, gift shops and live music. On the sand beneath it are regulation beach volleyball courts, fresh-water showers, beach rentals and year-round lifeguards. A surf school operates from the pier, on a stretch of coast long associated with East Coast surfing. Richard Stottler, a local businessman, built it in 1962 and called it the Canaveral Pier. It took more than two and a half miles of boardwalk planking and 270 pilings, each forty feet long. In the early sixties people drove their cars out onto it, and it served as a viewing stand for the Mercury, Apollo and Space Shuttle launches going up across the water. Ron Jon Surf Shop opened on the pier in 1963 and the first Easter Surfing Festival ran in 1964. Dick Catri, called the godfather of East Coast surfing, was a fixture here, and Kelly Slater, an eleven-time world champion who grew up in Cocoa Beach, surfed it. A dance club called the Asylum ran on it in the early seventies. It was remodeled and extended in 1983 at a cost of two million dollars. Westgate Resorts bought it in the spring of 2014 and has put in more than four million dollars since. Over a million people a year come onto it

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