Canaveral National Seashore
Florida
Tonight
🌗 46% moon
7.7 h fully dark
Crowds
high
Open today
Open
Entrance
$25
Operating Hours
The seashore is currently operating on the hours of 6:00 AM - 8:00 PM. Last entry into the seashore is at 7:00 pm.
For entrance fees, we accept digital passes and credit/debit cards
Digital passes or credit/debit cards are the ONLY method of payment at all fee collection areas. Pre-paid digital passes are available online and may be purchased in advance.
Rip Currents and Rough Surf
Remember that rough surf is dangerous & rip currents can be deadly. Please use caution when swimming at Canaveral National Seashore.
Official NPS alert →Discover a dynamic barrier island shaped by dunes, coastal hammocks, and Mosquito Lagoon. Walk among ancient Timucua shell mounds and connect with thousands of years of human history. Immerse yourself in a protected sanctuary where diverse plants and wildlife thrive—making Canaveral National Seashore a place where nature, history, and discovery come together.
Activities
Entrance fees
$25.00 — Entrance - Private Vehicle
$20.00 — Entrance - Motorcycle
$15.00 — Entrance - Per Person
Hours & seasons
Canaveral National Seashore is open 7 days a week. Visitor hours are 6:00 am to 8:00 pm. Last entry into the seashore is at 7:00 pm.
Generally open:
winterspringsummerfallHours are reported by the park — verify before you go.
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✉ cana_interpretation@nps.govConditions
Quietest months (fewer crowds): Oct
Typical crowds: high
Weather now: ☁️ Overcast, 80°F
🌦️ 84°/77°
🌦️ 83°/77°
🌦️ 91°/75°
Typical monthly recreation visits · NPS avg 2023–2025 — orange months are the quietest by crowds.
Quietest months
Relative crowds by month — lighter is quieter; ringed months are the calmest by crowds.
Jan
59%
Feb
73%
Mar
100%
Apr
93%
May
94%
Jun
90%
Jul
83%
Aug
72%
Sep
63%
Oct
43%
Nov
55%
Dec
55%
Log a sky reading
Measured the sky with an SQM meter or app? Add your reading (16 = city glow … 22 = pristine). Opt in under “Travelers like you” to share it on the community leaderboard.
Things to do
Hike Castle Windy Trail
Seminole Rest
Campgrounds
Visitor centers
Apollo Beach Visitor Center
Accessibility
13 audio-described place(s)
Reported by the park — verify before you go.
Parking
Apollo Beach Lot 1
Eddy Creek Parking Lotaccessible
Playalinda Beach Parking Lot 1 · 76 accessible spacesaccessible
Playalinda Beach Parking Lot 10 · 75 accessible spacesaccessible
Playalinda Beach Parking Lot 11 · 48 accessible spacesaccessible
Playalinda Beach Parking Lot 12 · 58 accessible spaces
Playalinda Beach Parking Lot 13 · 48 accessible spacesaccessible
Playalinda Beach Parking Lot 2 · 53 accessible spacesaccessible
Playalinda Beach Parking Lot 3 · 76 accessible spacesaccessible
Playalinda Beach Parking Lot 4 · 106 accessible spacesaccessible
Playalinda Beach Parking Lot 5 · 86 accessible spacesaccessible
Playalinda Beach Parking Lot 6 · 86 accessible spacesaccessible
Not an official safety source — always defer to NPS.gov and rangers for life-safety decisions.
By the numbers
A visual read on Canaveral National Seashore — its character, trails, sky, and weather.
Park fingerprint
How this park scores across the dimensions travelers care about.
Trail difficulty
Difficulty mix across this park's trails.
3-day forecast
Daily high and low temperatures (°F).
Passport stamps
Mark the stamps you've collected — they show in your memory and along your routes.
🎫 Apollo Beach Visitor Center
🎫 Eldora
🎫 Playalinda Beach
🎫 Seminole Rest Wayside, Lost Mounds
Places to see
Apollo Beach Entrance Station
Apollo Parking Lot 2
audio
Apollo Visitor Center Dock
audio
Castle Windy Trail
Eldora
audio
Playalinda Beach
audio
Playalinda Beach Entrance Station
Seminole Rest Entrance
audio
Seminole Rest Wayside, Lost Mounds
audio
Seminole Rest Wayside, Mounds of Evidence
audio
Seminole Rest Wayside, Preserving the Mound
audio
Seminole Rest Wayside, The Caretakers
audioAudio & media
🎧 Turtle Mound Audio ↗ · 1 mintranscript
🎧 YSS Postcard Wellness 2021 ↗ · 4 mintranscript
🎧 Eldora Audio Tour ↗transcript
🎧 Apollo Beach Access ↗ · 1 mintranscript
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Learn more
Seven rangers were awarded with a national or regional 2010 Freeman Tilden Award for excellence in interpretation. Learn more about their exciting and innovative projects.
2014 annual report on sea turtle monitoring at Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
Recipients of the 2015 NPS Environmental Achievement Awards
Hopa Mountain, in partnership with the National Park Service, is pleased to announce the 2019 awardees of the Connecting with our Homelands travel grants. Twenty-one Indigenous organizations, schools, and nonprofits have been awarded travel funds for trips to national park units across 12 states/territories within the United States.
The National Park Service is pleased to congratulate the recipients of the 2022 George and Helen Hartzog Awards for Outstanding Volunteer Service.
Humor is a form of commentary that often reveals serious truths. Cartoonists combine artistic talents with razor-sharp wits to shine light on political and social issues. In most cases, those artists are external observers. In the National Park Service (NPS), employees in the 1960s to 1980s drew cartoons, published in official newsletters, that provide unique insights into NPS organizational culture, working conditions, and employees' concerns—many of which still exist today.
Sound artists, Gordon Hempton and Perri Lynch Howard have released their creative contribution to the community. Both were the 2024 artists-in-residence at the ACA Soundscape Field Station, a partnership between Atlantic Center for the Arts and Canaveral National Seashore.
Welcome to the first ever sound tour of Canaveral National Seashore! Open your ears, close your eyes, and let it take you on a journey through the various habitats and moods of nature found at the seashore.
Ranger School
Park-grounded courses you can learn with the Ranger.
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