Fort Pierce Places

Fort Pierce place guides cover the City Marina, the Sunrise Theatre, downtown and the county's Fenn Center, and this page covers the River Walk Center, Marina Square, Lincoln Park and the Manatee Center, each run by a public agency.

This section indexes Fort Pierce places owned or run by the city, its redevelopment agency, its utility or St. Lucie County. The addresses in the table come from the city marina page (Fort Pierce About the Marina), the River Walk Center page (Fort Pierce River Walk Center page), the Highwaymen Museum page (Fort Pierce Highwaymen Museum page), the Manatee Center (Manatee Observation and Education Center site) and St. Lucie County (St. Lucie County Havert L. Fenn Center page).

The Fort Pierce About page names the A. E. Backus Museum and Gallery among the city's museums (City of Fort Pierce About page). The same Fort Pierce page names the National UDT Navy SEAL Museum, which it says commemorates the birth of the Navy frogmen in Fort Pierce (City of Fort Pierce About page, attractions).

Downtown Fort Pierce offers waterfront shopping, dining and fishing, the Farmers Market, Friday Fest and the Jazz Craft Market, and performances at the historic Sunrise Theatre.

The Fort Pierce Redevelopment Agency's Discover Fort Pierce page says the city has kept its old Florida charm and scale while welcoming new development, and lists the Farmers Market, Friday Fest, the Jazz Craft Market and the Sunrise Theatre for the Performing Arts among downtown's activities (Discover Fort Pierce page). The city About page places the Saturday morning Farmers Market at Marina Square and adds a Green Market on Wednesday afternoons (About Fort Pierce, attractions). Event dates change, so the organizers' own calendars are the place to confirm them.

Parking downtown is time limited: Fort Pierce enforces 2-hour limits in designated areas Monday through Friday from 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM, bans overnight parking in or next to city parks and beaches, and prohibits parking over 24 hours in city-provided spaces unless authorized (Fort Pierce Parking page).

The Fort Pierce City Marina at 1 Marina Way is a publicly owned and operated marina, established on October 28, 1937, with transient dockage, fuel, pump out and an IGFA weigh station.

The marina page describes a downtown location within reach of the library, shops, galleries, restaurants, theaters, museums and parks, a first-in-state storm protection system, complimentary Wi-Fi, and a new entrance channel 1/8 mile south of the South Bridge (Fort Pierce About the Marina page). Boaters reach the Fort Pierce marina on VHF channels 16 and 17 or at 772-464-1245; its feature list includes 30A, 50A and 100A electric, diesel in the slip, non-ethanol gasoline, a fish cleaning station and a farmers market and traders market nearby.

The city marina site also carries reservations, nearby attractions, marina news and events, and live webcams (Fort Pierce City Marina site); the Fort Pierce City Marina guide covers rates and rules in detail.

The City of Fort Pierce rents Pierce Hall and the Sunrise Room at the River Walk Center, the Maravilla Center and the Garden Center, and St. Lucie County rents the larger Fenn Center on Virginia Avenue.

The River Walk Center at 600 North Indian River Drive is owned and operated by the City of Fort Pierce, sits north of the City Marina within walking distance of the Backus Gallery, the Seven Gables Visitor Information Center and the Manatee Center, and includes tables and chairs at no additional cost, a standard kitchen and a renovated patio (Fort Pierce River Walk Center page). Event permit paperwork is processed when fees are paid at the River Walk Center office, 772-489-6473.

The Fort Pierce Venue Rentals page sizes each room: Pierce Hall seats up to 150 guests with tables and chairs, the Sunrise Room up to 40, and the Garden Center at 911 Park Way up to 60, while the Maravilla Center at 2622 Oleander Blvd rents only on Saturdays and Sundays from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm and has a playground on site (Fort Pierce Venue Rentals page).

For larger Fort Pierce events, the county's Havert L. Fenn Center at 2000 Virginia Avenue is the county's event venue, with meeting rooms from 1,100 to 9,100 square feet and a Main Exhibit Hall of 22,700 square feet (Havert L. Fenn Center page).

Lincoln Park, one of the oldest Fort Pierce neighborhoods, holds the city's Florida Highwaymen Museum at 1234 Avenue D, the Highwaymen Heritage Trail and Zora Neale Hurston's Dust Tracks Heritage Trail.

The city's Lincoln Park history page says Avenue D was, in the 1950s and 1960s, St. Lucie County's center for African American-owned shops, restaurants and businesses, that Zora Neale Hurston spent her final years there and is buried at the Garden of Heavenly Rest, and that the historic Lincoln Theater stands in the neighborhood (Fort Pierce Historical Lincoln Park page).

The Fort Pierce Highwaymen Museum occupies a 3,200 square foot, two-story building that was once a church and later a rooming house, shows paintings from each of the 26 original Highwaymen, and lists summer hours (June 16 to July 31) of Saturday and Sunday from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM, says hours expand from September 1 to June 15, and offers private tours on request (Highwaymen Museum, hours).

Marina Square is set to become a flexible downtown park for markets, festivals and concerts under a conceptual design that followed the FPRA's November 2022 Downtown Master Plan, and FPUA plans a bigger exhibit hall at the Manatee Center.

The Fort Pierce Marina Square page says the finished conceptual design adds parking strategies, pedestrian circulation, waterfront promenades and stronger links between Marina Square, Indian River Drive, the City Marina and downtown, and calls it a long-term vision and a framework for future phased implementation and funding (Marina Square page).

The Manatee Observation and Education Center at 480 N. Indian River Drive lists its hours as Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., closed Sunday and Monday, with accessible parking at the main entrance (Manatee Center site). FPUA, which runs the center as one of its departments, says in its FY 2026 budget that the Manatee Center has rebranded and plans an expansion of the Exhibit Hall and its educational programs over the next two years (FPUA FY 2026 Annual Budget).

Last verified: October 22, 2026, using the Fort Pierce Discover, About, City Marina, River Walk Center, Venue Rentals, Parking, Lincoln Park, Highwaymen Museum and Marina Square pages, the Manatee Center site, FPUA's FY 2026 budget and the county Fenn Center page.