Cocoa Beach Beach Parking and Fees

City of Cocoa Beach parking costs $6 per hour with a one-hour minimum, or $25 for a full day, plus a $0.35 convenience fee when paying in the app (Cocoa Beach Parking Information).

Cocoa Beach lists over 1,600 parking spaces across its parks, the beach access street ends and the downtown parking garage. Parking is enforced daily from 7 AM to 7 PM, weekends and holidays included, and posted signs at each location can add restrictions.

Permit prices in the Cocoa Beach table come from the city Parking Permits page; the other rows come from the Parking Information page.

All City of Cocoa Beach parking is paid through the Passport Parking app, by entering the zone and space number (Cocoa Beach Parking Information).

The city's steps are short: download the app, enter the zone and space number, pick the parking time and confirm. Cocoa Beach says payment must be made as soon as the car is parked to avoid a citation. Visitors from outside the U.S. without a U.S. phone number can choose Continue as Guest and enter 00000 as the zip code to pay without an account.

The city's own tips for avoiding a Cocoa Beach ticket: pay immediately on arrival, double check the zone and space number, follow posted signs and stay out of restricted areas such as yellow curbs. Overnight parking is not permitted in any city-managed parking area, including the downtown garage. Vehicles with a valid handicap placard or license plate park at no cost in designated spaces. The Cocoa Beach Police Department's staff includes parking enforcement specialists (Cocoa Beach Police).

Cocoa Beach beach parking is spread across two city oceanfront parks, 40 stub-end streets east of A1A and a downtown garage (Cocoa Beach Beach Access Parks).

The Cocoa Beach Parking Information page also lists Ramp Road Park, 401 Ramp Road, as its park with lagoon access (Cocoa Beach Parking Information).

Alan Shepard Park has 300 parking spaces for cars and recreational vehicles, and parking fees apply there (Alan Shepard Park facility page). The park's address differs between two city pages: the facility page gives 299 East Cocoa Beach Cswy, while the Parking Information page lists Alan Shepard Park at 216 E. Cocoa Beach Causeway. Sidney Fischer Park, at 2200 N Atlantic Avenue, also charges for parking (Sidney Fischer Park facility page), and the beach access page puts its lot at roughly 200 spaces. Each of the 40 street ends has a dune crossover, metered parking and a litter barrel.

The Parking Information page lists the Cocoa Beach street ends from north to south: Harding, Barlow, Young, Hendry, Meade, Pulsipher, Winslow, Leon, Osceola, Gadsden, Columbia, Hernando, Marion, Palm, Flagler and Tulip, then 4th Street N through 1st Street N, lots at 133 N Orlando Avenue, 142 N Atlantic Avenue and 22 N Atlantic Avenue, and 1st Street S through 15th Street S. Meade, Pulsipher, Columbia, Palm and Flagler each include 1 handicap space and Tulip includes 2. Part of the 22 N Atlantic Avenue lot is not owned or operated by the city (Cocoa Beach street end list).

The downtown parking garage is at 25 S. Orlando Avenue in Cocoa Beach. Its clearance is 7 feet 2 inches, back-in parking is not allowed, and its 2 ground-floor EV charging stations cost $0.20 per kWh on top of paid parking. A vehicle taller than that clearance has to use a street end or park lot instead.

Cocoa Beach sells annual permits for $20 to residents, $75 to non-residents and $30 to businesses, each valid January 1 to December 31 (Cocoa Beach Parking Permits).

A resident permit requires the taxing district code 26H to appear on the property's record at the Brevard County Property Appraiser. There is a 2-week grace period into the new year before citations start, one permit covers one vehicle, and replacements for a new vehicle, an accident or a lost or stolen permit cost the same as a new one.

Three limits matter. A Cocoa Beach permit cannot be used at Shepard Park or the 22 N. Atlantic Ave lot, and it does not extend the limited 90-minute spaces. In the other direction, Ramp Road Park parking is now managed through the city parking program, and an existing city permit is valid there at no additional cost (Ramp Road Park facility page).

How to buy: Cocoa Beach is moving permit applications to its OpenGov portal, where Parking Permits open on December 1, 2026, with a convenience fee on online transactions, and the Finance Department aims to mail permits within 5 business days. In person, the Finance Department at 2 S. Orlando Ave. needs a copy of the vehicle registration, a driver's license and proof of residency if the two addresses differ. By mail, the same documents go to City of Cocoa Beach, Attn: Finance Dept., PO Box 322430, Cocoa Beach, FL 32932-2430 with a check or money order and a $3 shipping and handling fee. The decal goes on the driver-side rear bumper or the outside lower driver-side rear window; elsewhere it can draw a citation. Finance answers at (321) 868-3295, Monday to Friday 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM.

Lori Wilson Park, the Brevard County beach park inside Cocoa Beach, is the free option: the county lists free parking, and the city page says the park has no fees and is free to all (Brevard County Lori Wilson Park).

The City of Cocoa Beach page for Lori Wilson Park describes a 274-space lot and says the park closes at dusk (Cocoa Beach page for Lori Wilson Park). Lori Wilson Park does not appear among the parking locations on the city's Parking Information page, and the county notes that its parking areas stay open to the public and cannot be reserved, even for a pavilion booking.

The other no-cost parking the city lists is for vehicles with a valid handicap placard or license plate in designated accessible spaces, including the marked spaces at several street ends. Elsewhere in city-managed Cocoa Beach parking, the city's hourly or daily rate, or a valid annual permit where permits are accepted, applies during enforcement hours of 7 AM to 7 PM.

Last verified: October 21, 2026, by re-reading the Cocoa Beach Parking Information and Parking Permits pages, the city park pages for Shepard, Fischer, Ramp Road and Lori Wilson, and the Brevard County Lori Wilson Park listing for current rates and rules.