Cocoa Beach Parks

The City of Cocoa Beach Leisure Services Department manages and maintains all city parks, playgrounds, ball fields and open spaces (Cocoa Beach Leisure Services), while Brevard County operates two oceanfront parks inside the city (Cocoa Beach Beach Access Parks).

Leisure Services also oversees the Cocoa Beach Recreation Center, the Aquatic Center and the golf course. The two county parks are Lori Wilson Park and Robert P. Murkshe Memorial Park, which the city's beach page lists as operated and maintained by Brevard County (Cocoa Beach Beach Access Parks). That split decides who to call: Cocoa Beach Leisure Services at 321-868-3252 for city parks, and the county's Lori Wilson Park line, (321) 455-1380, for that park and its pavilion bookings (Brevard County Lori Wilson Park page).

Sources for the Cocoa Beach table rows: the city pages for Alan Shepard Park, Sidney Fischer Park, Ramp Road Park, Cove Park, the boat ramps and Maritime Hammock Preserve, plus the county Lori Wilson Park page.

Four Cocoa Beach parks front the Atlantic, and 40 stub-end streets east of A1A add smaller access points, each with a dune crossover, metered parking and a litter barrel (Cocoa Beach Beach Access Parks).

Alan Shepard Park, at 299 East Cocoa Beach Cswy, is a 5-acre park named after astronaut Alan Shepard with 10 large picnic pavilions, a playground, showers and 300 parking spaces for cars and RVs, and the city notes it gives a view of space launches. It is open 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM every day, and parking fees apply (Alan Shepard Park facility page).

Sidney Fischer Park, at 2200 North Atlantic Ave, covers 10 acres with pavilions, picnic shelters, a playground, showers and volleyball, and keeps the same 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM hours, with parking fees (Sidney Fischer Park facility page). The city's beach access page spells the name Sidney Fisher and puts its lot at roughly 200 spaces.

Lori Wilson Park is the larger of the two county parks in Cocoa Beach, and Brevard County describes a 3,155-foot nature boardwalk through a maritime hammock, 6 dune crossovers (4 ADA accessible), an off-leash dog park divided for large and small dogs, and free parking (Brevard County Lori Wilson Park). The city lists 20 acres and 274 spaces there, while the county lists 32.43 acres; both figures are given here because the two official pages differ. Robert P. Murkshe Memorial Park, the second county park, is 2 acres with bathrooms, showers and picnic areas.

The city's boat ramp page lists three ramp sites, at Ramp Road Park, Constitution Bicentennial Park and Holiday Lane (Cocoa Beach Boat Ramps page), and Cove Park adds a kayak launching dock (Cove Park facility page).

Ramp Road Park, at the west end of Ramp Road at number 401, has motorized and non-motorized boat ramps, a kayak ramp, fishing, horseshoe pits, tennis and pickleball courts and a playground, open 6:00 AM to 10:00 PM (Ramp Road Park facility page). Parking there is now managed through the Cocoa Beach parking program, and an existing city parking permit is valid at Ramp Road Park at no additional cost. Court lights rent for $15 per hour and may run from 6:00 AM until 10:00 PM, with weekend bookings approved by the Friday before; questions go to 321-868-3274.

Constitution Bicentennial Park is a 1-acre roadside park at 801 W Cocoa Beach Causeway with boat launch facilities, a fishing dock and restrooms, and the Holiday Lane boat ramp is on Holiday Lane, with questions going to Leisure Services at 321 868-3252. Cove Park, at 540 McNabb Pkwy, is a half-acre Cocoa Beach park with a fishing dock, a kayak launching dock and a playground, but only 6 on-street parking spaces and no restrooms (Cove Park facility page).

The city lists Cocoa Isles, Cove, Cameron Barkley, McLarty and Ramp Road as its neighborhood parks, and the playgrounds and courts are spread among them (Cocoa Beach Neighborhood Parks).

Cocoa Isles Park is a half-acre park in the Cocoa Isles neighborhood with picnic tables and a playground and no restrooms. Cameron Barkley Park, formerly Palmetto Park, is on Alachua Lane and has tennis courts, pickleball courts, a playground and a horseshoe pit. McLarty Park is a small Cocoa Beach park with three gazebos and picnic tables. The Recreation Center at 321 Ramp Road, 321-868-3274, is open Monday to Thursday 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM and Friday 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM, and is closed on weekends and major holidays.

A practical note for Cocoa Beach court players: the city's tennis and pickleball page currently places a Cameron Barkley Park heading over a description of Cove Park, which has no courts (Cocoa Beach Parks with Tennis and Pickleball Courts). The neighborhood parks page lists tennis and pickleball courts at Cameron Barkley Park and Ramp Road Park, and the Ramp Road Park page lists both court types there.

Maritime Hammock Preserve, at 1225 North Atlantic Ave., is a city conservation and stormwater park open 6:00 AM to 10:00 PM every day (Cocoa Beach Maritime Hammock Preserve).

The City of Cocoa Beach bought the preserve in 2003 with the Florida Communities Trust program, whose grant covered 40 percent of the $1.52 million price. A 1-acre stormwater pond treats storm runoff from 128 acres of commercial and multi-residential areas, and it was paid for almost entirely by grants: $584,000 from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and EPA, $177,000 from the St. Johns River Water Management District and $149,900 from the Florida Department of Transportation. The preserve's rules ask for no fishing in the pond and no biking on the trails.

The Maritime Hammock page is out of date in one place: it still says the city applied for a recreation grant in 2015 and that remaining amenities would be built in 2016 if the grant was awarded, and it lists an observation deck and a fitness trail as future features. Anyone planning a Cocoa Beach visit around those features can ask the City Clerk's Office, which the page names as the contact for the Master Site Plan.

The Cocoa Beach Aquatic Center at 4800 Tom Warriner Blvd has a 50 meter temperature-regulated pool, open to residents and non-residents (Cocoa Beach Aquatic Center).

The city says the Cocoa Beach pool is heated in winter and cooled in summer, and the center adds a jumbo water slide, diving boards, a children's pool, a water spray park, a pavilion, a volleyball net and a playground. Swimming lanes are reserved online through RecDesk, and the center can be rented for events.

The Cocoa Beach Skate Park, at 1450 Minutemen Causeway, opens Monday through Thursday 3:30 PM to 9:00 PM, Friday 2:30 PM to 10 PM, Saturday 7 AM to 10 PM and Sunday 7 AM to 9 PM, with 6 AM to 9 PM hours on no-school holidays (Cocoa Beach Skate Park). Skaters 18 and under must wear a helmet, BMX bikes are not allowed, and there is no attendant on duty.

The Cocoa Beach park guides listed below this answer split the questions by place and by cost, starting with the county-run Lori Wilson Park.

The Lori Wilson Park guide covers the boardwalk, dog park, pavilions and lifeguard tower, and lays out where the city and Brevard County pages disagree on that park's acreage and address (Brevard County Lori Wilson Park). The Cocoa Beach beach parking and fees guide covers the meters, the annual permit and which lots a permit does not cover, which matters at Alan Shepard Park and Sidney Fischer Park where city parking fees apply (Alan Shepard Park). Questions about launching a boat or kayak, such as which ramp site has a kayak launch, are answered in the boat ramp section above.

Last verified: October 21, 2026, by re-reading each City of Cocoa Beach park, ramp, preserve, pool and skate park page cited here and the Brevard County Lori Wilson Park listing.