![]() ![]() Valid for 7 days.Ĭommercial Tour Vehicles: $100.00. Vehicle Entrance Fee: $20.00 per vehicle. Pedestrian or Bicycle: $10.00 Valid for 7 days Entrance Fees to Canaveral National Seashore You can learn more about it at the Canaveral National Seashore Visitor Information Center. The National Park Service preserves the site. It contains several prehistoric shell mounds dating from 2,000 BC to 1565 AD. Seminole Rest Historic Site is a pre-historical and historical interpretive park located across the Mosquito Lagoon on the mainland at Oak Hill, Florida. There is no visitor center at this entrance, but you will soon come to a park ranger in a toll booth. Since you are immediately north of busy Kennedy Space Center, you will see the huge Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) looming in the near distance off to your right and some rocket launch towers. While driving through the refuge you may see an alligator or even a variety of endangered species that find a safe home here. You will travel through a portion of the giant Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. Playalinda Beach is reached from the south access by taking CR402, also known as Garden Street, from Titusville east to the beach. Playalinda Beach: South Entrance to Canaveral National Seashore The paved portion of South Atlantic Avenue (SR-A1A) ends at the last ramp on the south in a turn around loop. You can take steps or walk on a gently sloping wheel chair accessible ramp. Once you leave the visitor center and travel south, there are four more parking areas along Apollo Beach.Įach parking area has a ramp down to the beach. There are five parking areas on the ocean and four others within the coastal hammock. The road dead ended in fenced property that was the northern limit of Kennedy Space Center. One day I drove to the end of State Road A1A south of New Smyrna. ![]() I dreamed of buying an oceanfront lot in New Smyrna Beach. I was living in Orlando in 1969 and working on the construction of Walt Disney World. My Personal Search for a Beachfront Paradise It's the way Florida used to be before wall to wall oceanfront condominiums and beach houses. This area north of the Cape probably looks the same today as it was back in the 1500s when the Spanish galleons sailed by in the Gulf Stream. It is amazing to see this so close to the launch pads at Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral. It is a pristine undeveloped shoreline, one of the few remaining on the east coast of Florida. There's no other place on the state's Atlantic coast that has 24 miles of continuous undeveloped white sand beach on an unspoiled barrier island. You will see none of that at Canaveral National Seashore. The Space Coast and New Smyrna have miles of developed beach with high rise condominiums casting their shadows over State Road A1A. The beach is located between Kennedy Space Center and New Smyrna Beach. Miami, South Florida, and Keys within 100 miles.The large home, called the Instone House, and the Caretaker’s House were not built by Tumor, but were purchased by him and possibly moved to their current locations from another place in the area. I suppose the draw of having a home on a hill, a rarity in Florida, was important to Hatton Tumor, who lived on the property with his family from 1890 to 1911. The mounds at Seminole Rest were saved by a private citizen who purchased the property and built his home on top of the mounds instead of selling the shells to the railroad companies that wanted to use them for landfill. I can picture some poor Timucuan kid having to haul the night’s dinner garbage to the top of the mound, and the parents saying, “When I was your age I had to haul garbage to the top of middens ten times that tall.”ĭuring modern times, many middens were leveled and used as fill for construction sites, railroads, and roads, so there are not many left intact. Over the years these dumps of shells grew into substantial hills. After preparing shellfish, the shells were dumped in a pile, thus the term shell midden. The Timucuan mainly subsisted on a seafood diet. A midden is defined as a garbage dump, and in this case the dumps belonged to the Timucuan Indians who lived in the area between 6 AD (this particular midden was used from 770-1100 AD). However, the name Seminole Rest is actually referring to a group of shell middens, one of which the two buildings are situated on. The dominate features of the property are the late-1800s home of the Hatton Tumor family and a guest cottage known as the Caretaker’s House. Seminole Rest parking area, Canaveral National Seashore ![]()
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