Pelican Beach Park, Satellite Beach

Pelican Beach Park is a City of Satellite Beach oceanfront park at 1525 Highway A1A, with a reservable event venue, pavilions, restrooms, showers, a playground and a dune crossover to the beach.

The Satellite Beach beach parks page says the city has 3 beach parks with parking, restrooms, showers and covered picnic tables, and lists Pelican Beach Park's amenities as an event venue and pavilions available for reservation, an ADA dune crossover, ADA restrooms, ADA outdoor showers, grills, a little free library, 2 sand volleyball courts and 1 EV charging station. The same page says substantial improvements were made recently to Pelican Beach Park, Hightower Beach Park and several dune crossovers.

The address comes from the Satellite Beach playgrounds page, which lists Pelican Beach Park at 1525 Highway A1A and notes that its play area sits inside the larger park, as do those at Frank P. Catino Park and the Sports and Recreation Park, while Cinnamon Park is a neighborhood playground.

For visitors with mobility needs, the Satellite Beach beach parks page says a complimentary beach wheelchair can be reserved by calling the Satellite Beach Fire Department at (321) 773-4405.

Parking at Pelican Beach Park is paid every day from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM, including holidays, unless the vehicle is registered to a valid Satellite Beach parking pass.

The Satellite Beach parking payment page lists rates of $2.50 per hour and $10.00 all day and adds a notice that daily parking rates change to $3.50 per hour and $15 per day effective October 1, 2026. Payment is due on arrival, cash is not accepted, a credit or debit card is required, and a payment kiosk stands at Pelican Beach Park as well as at Hightower Beach Park and the Shell access. Fees are tied to the license plate and to the lot, so a Pelican payment does not carry over to another Satellite Beach lot, and the city makes no refunds.

The Satellite Beach parking locations page numbers Pelican Beach Park as Lot 5 with 138 spaces and text-to-pay code PBP. The city beach parks page gives a different count, 131 parking spaces with 6 ADA spaces, so the two official Pelican Beach Park figures are both given here.

The City of Satellite Beach parking portal says enforcement runs 7:00am to 7:00pm on all 365 days, including all major holidays, that all payments and passes are virtual by registered license plate, and that ADA placards and plates and Disabled Veterans plates are fully exempt. The beach parks page adds that Satellite Beach does not allow beach parking along A1A or on residential streets.

A non-resident who parks only at Pelican Beach Park can use the city's free Pelican and Hightower East pass, while Satellite Beach residents get a free pass valid at every city beach lot.

The Satellite Beach parking passes page says passes are issued on a calendar-year basis, valid January 1 to December 31, and are virtual, tied to a valid vehicle registration. Every application takes a minimum of 72 hours to approve, and until the approval notice arrives the driver must pay the daily fee at Pelican Beach Park to avoid enforcement.

Satellite Beach residents register up to five license plates per household account with proof of residency and a current registration for each vehicle, and resident passes renew every 2 years; golf carts registered through the City of Satellite Beach are exempt without a pass. The non-resident all-lots pass costs $75.00, covers 2 plates and expires each December 31. The free non-resident pass is valid only at Pelican Park Beach (Lot 5) and Hightower East (Lot 1), and the passes page states that the grass lot across A1A, Hightower West (Lot 2), is not included.

Questions go to the Satellite Beach parking office at 240 Jackson Ave, open Tuesday to Thursday from 9am to 3pm, phone 321-773-4407 ext 510, according to the parking portal; the city beach parks page gives a second parking office number, 321-704-5351.

Yes, the Pelican Beach Clubhouse on A1A is a city rental venue for weddings, club meetings, birthday parties and other events, shown by appointment.

The Pelican Beach Clubhouse page places the venue directly on Jimmy Buffett Highway (A1A) and describes an indoor event space for small gatherings and an outdoor wooden deck with views of the Atlantic Ocean, with beach access beside it. The page links to the current Satellite Beach rental prices, a sample rental contract and facility diagrams rather than printing the rates.

Walk-through tours of the Pelican Beach Clubhouse are available by appointment on Mondays to Wednesdays from 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM, scheduled by calling 321-773-6458, the Recreation Department number on the city beach parks page. The pavilions in the park are also listed as available for reservation on the city beach parks page.

The city beach parks page says pets are not allowed on beaches within Satellite Beach, although a city code pilot allowed leashed dogs on early mornings in the cooler months.

Satellite Beach City Code Sec. 14-4, restrictions for dogs on beaches, added by Ord. No. 1281 on December 3, 2025, allowed dogs on all city beaches from November 1 through April 30, only between 5:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m., on a leash of seven feet or less, never in the dunes, with any unleashed dog subject to immediate impoundment. The editor's note on the same section says Ord. No. 1281 would automatically stand repealed at 11:59 p.m. on April 30, 2026, unless sooner modified or repealed.

Because the Satellite Beach beach page still states the no-pets rule and the code pilot carried a built-in end date, anyone planning to bring a dog to Pelican Beach Park between November and April is best served by asking the Satellite Beach Recreation Department at 321-773-6458 which rule applies on that date.

Pelican Beach Park does not appear on Brevard County Ocean Rescue's list of full-time lifeguard towers, and the county page does not name its seasonal tower sites.

The Brevard County Ocean Rescue page lists full-time towers operating daily from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM at Cocoa Beach Pier, Shepard Park, Lori Wilson Park, Minutemen Causeway and Paradise/Futch Park in North Indialantic, and says additional seasonal towers open the last week of May, run daily from Memorial Day to the first week of August and on weekends until Labor Day, without naming their sites; Satellite Beach and Pelican Beach Park are not named on the full-time list. The same county page tells beachgoers to check the Florida Division of Emergency Management Rip Current Map before heading to the beach.

Lighting rules follow the sea turtle season on the Satellite Beach shoreline. The Sustainable Satellite page asks beachfront properties to turn off lights and close blinds during the nesting season of March 1 to October 31, between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m., while City Code Sec. 14-4 describes nesting season as May 1 through October 31; the two Satellite Beach sources give different start dates.

Last verified: October 21, 2026, against the Satellite Beach parking portal's rate, pass and lot pages, the Pelican Beach Clubhouse and beach parks pages, and City Code Sec. 14-4.