Ramp Road Park in Cocoa Beach, Florida

Ramp Road Park is a City of Cocoa Beach park at 401 Ramp Road, at the west end of the street on the Banana River side, open 6:00 AM to 10:00 PM every day (city Ramp Road Park listing).

The city lists the park among its neighborhood parks, alongside Cocoa Isles, Cove, Cameron Barkley and McLarty parks, and the general Leisure Services line for those parks is 321-868-3252 (city Neighborhood Parks page). The number printed on the Ramp Road Park listing, 321-868-3274, is the same one the city gives for the Recreation Center at 321 Ramp Road, so that desk is the practical first call for questions about the courts or the lot.

One small difference between city pages is worth knowing before a trip with a boat. The Boat Ramps page and the Neighborhood Parks page both describe a dock at Ramp Road Park (city boat ramp page), while the facility listing's own feature list names the ramps but not a dock (city Ramp Road Park listing).

Ramp Road Park has a launching ramp for both motorized and non-motorized boats plus a separate kayak launching ramp (city Ramp Road Park listing).

The water off the ramp is the Banana River Aquatic Preserve, and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection names the Ramp Road Park Boat Ramp among the preserve's boat access points (FDEP Banana River Aquatic Preserve page). The state describes the preserve as a long, wide and shallow estuarine lagoon of 30,000 acres in Brevard County, designated in 1970, and lists boating, fishing, kayaking, snorkeling, diving, wildlife viewing and nature photography as its activities. For boaters leaving Ramp Road, the agency's guidance is to stay off the shallows and tilt the motor up when crossing seagrass beds, which aquatic preserves protect, and it puts the penalty for seagrass damage at up to $1,000 (FDEP Banana River Aquatic Preserve page).

Anyone operating a powerboat from the Cocoa Beach ramp falls under the state boating safety education law. Section 327.395 of the Florida Statutes says a person born on or after January 1, 1988, may not operate a vessel powered by a motor of 10 horsepower or greater unless that person carries photographic identification and a Florida boating safety identification card, or one of the listed equivalents, aboard (Section 327.395, Florida Statutes). The same section makes a card earned through a course valid for life and a temporary certificate valid for 90 days after issue.

The preserve is wildlife habitat as much as a boating area. Its mammal list names the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin and West Indian manatee, and its fish list names redfish, black drum, tarpon, snook and mullet (FDEP Banana River Aquatic Preserve page), and the Ramp Road Park listing counts fishing among the park's features (city Ramp Road Park listing).

Ramp Road Park parking is part of the paid City of Cocoa Beach program, where a full day costs $25 and shorter stays cost $6 per hour with at least 1 hour paid, and app payments add a $0.35 convenience fee (city parking information page).

On the city parking page, Ramp Road Park is the one entry under the heading for parks with lagoon access, and the paid hours there are 7 AM to 7 PM every day, holidays included (city parking information page). The Digital Towns guide to beach parking and fees in Cocoa Beach explains the Passport Parking App and the rest of the city program.

An annual city parking permit covers the Ramp Road lot at no extra cost (city Ramp Road Park listing). The permit page lists a resident permit at $20.00, a non-resident permit at $75.00 and a business permit at $30.00, each valid January 1 to December 31, with a 2-week grace period into the next year (city parking permits page). The Finance Department at 2 S. Orlando Ave, (321) 868-3295, handles permit sales, and a resident permit needs taxing district code 26H to show on the property record at the Brevard County Property Appraiser.

Two limits matter for an early or late launch from Ramp Road. The city bars overnight parking in all of its managed lots (city parking information page), and the park itself closes at 10:00 PM (city Ramp Road Park listing). Questions about parking a boat trailer at the lot go to the number on the park listing, 321-868-3274 (city Ramp Road Park listing).

Lights on the Ramp Road Park tennis and pickleball courts rent for $15 per hour, booked online or in person, and every booking must be approved by Recreation Staff first (city Ramp Road Park listing).

The listing sets the light window at no earlier than 6:00 AM and off by 10:00 PM, matching the park's posted hours. For a Saturday or Sunday rental, approval has to be in place by the Friday before the reservation. Players who prefer to pay in person book at 321 Ramp Road, the Recreation Center, and questions go to 321-868-3274 (city Ramp Road Park listing).

The Digital Towns guide to tennis and pickleball in Cocoa Beach compares the other public courts in the city.

At 321 Ramp Road, the Offenhauser Recreation Center, also called the Ramp Road Recreation Center, is the city gym, and its listing names basketball, pickleball and Zumba classes plus parking and restrooms (city Recreation Center listing).

The Cocoa Beach Neighborhood Parks page posts the center's weekday schedule, 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM Monday through Thursday and 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM on Friday, and says it is closed on weekends and all major holidays (city Neighborhood Parks page). The facility listing names the closed days: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr Day, President's Day, Memorial Day, Thanksgiving Day, the day after Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve (city Recreation Center listing).

The park itself is listed as open every day, while the center that takes in-person light bookings is listed as closed on weekends. The park listing directs in-person bookings to this building (city Ramp Road Park listing).

Ramp Road Park borders the Thousand Islands Conservation Area, and the 2008 management plan for that site names the park as the city's access point to it (Thousand Islands Conservation Area Management Plan, revised December 2008).

The city wrote the plan jointly with the county's Environmentally Endangered Lands Program, and its cover carries a December 2008 revision date. It places the conservation area next to Ramp Road Park, with state-owned mangrove islands to the west and the open Banana River beyond. Describing the park as it stood then, the plan counted 30 parking spaces along with bike racks, restrooms, picnic facilities and benches, and noted that the City had added a canoe and kayak launch at Ramp Road in 2008 (Thousand Islands Conservation Area Management Plan). The 30-space count dates from 2008, and the current city listing does not post a space count (city Ramp Road Park listing).

The same plan describes Ramp Road Park as a check-in site for two volunteer cleanups coordinated locally by Keep Brevard Beautiful: the Ocean Conservancy Coastal Cleanup in the fall and the Great American Cleanup in the spring (Thousand Islands Conservation Area Management Plan). It also called for a sign at the park announcing the acquisition and, longer term, permanent signs at Ramp Road Park and 4th Street South identifying the site as an EEL Sanctuary and City of Cocoa Beach public park. The Digital Towns guide to kayaking and paddling in Cocoa Beach covers the islands from the water.

The city lists two other public ramp sites: Constitution Bicentennial Park on the Cocoa Beach Causeway and the Holiday Lane boat ramp (city boat ramp page).

Constitution Bicentennial Park, at 801 W Cocoa Beach Causeway, is described as a 1-acre roadside park with boat launch facilities, a fishing dock and restrooms. The Holiday Lane ramp sits on Holiday Lane, and the city sends questions about it to the Leisure Services Department at 321-868-3252 (city boat ramp page). Of the three ramp sites on that page, Ramp Road Park is the one described with tennis courts, pickleball courts and a playground.

Last verified: October 21, 2026, by re-reading the Ramp Road Park, Recreation Center, boat ramp, neighborhood park, parking and permit pages of the City of Cocoa Beach, the 2008 Thousand Islands plan, the FDEP Banana River Aquatic Preserve page and Section 327.395 of the Florida Statutes.