Sand Point Park

Sand Point Park is a 29.88 acre riverfront park where U.S. 1 meets the Max Brewer Causeway in Titusville, owned by the city and maintained by Brevard County.

The City of Titusville describes it as a popular community river park on the Indian River at the juncture of U.S. 1 and the Max Brewer Causeway, and home to the Titusville Little League (Titusville city park page). The same city page gives the street address as 10 E Max Brewer Causeway. Other official pages print a different address: the City of Titusville parks list gives 101 N. Washington Avenue, phone (321) 264-5037 (Titusville park ownership list), and the Brevard County listing gives 101 N. Washington Ave, Titusville, FL 32796 (county park listing). All of these pages describe the same park, and neither city page explains why the two addresses differ.

On ownership, the Titusville list puts Sand Point Park in the group the city owns and the county keeps up, so pavilion bookings, maintenance and launch night opening are county matters. The one piece the city keeps for itself is the splash pad: the list carries the splash pad as its own entry, Sand Point Park Splash Pad at 101 N Washington Avenue, in the city owned and city maintained group (Titusville park ownership list).

Day to day questions about the grounds, the ramp or a reservation go to the county: the Sand Point listing gives the park line (321) 264-5037 and the North Area Operations office at (321) 264-5105, with the Brevard County Board of County Commissioners offices at 2725 Judge Fran Jamieson Way in Viera behind them (county park listing). The splash pad, as a city facility, is a City of Titusville matter.

Sand Point Park has a playground, a splash pad, ball fields used by the Titusville Little League, a 0.66 mile exercise trail, a bicycle pedway, pavilions, a boat ramp and Indian River shoreline fishing.

Brevard County lists the amenities as a playground with accessible play structures, restrooms, a bicycle pedway, lighted multi use fields, a 1 lane boat ramp, small, mid size and large pavilions, numerous picnic tables and Indian River Lagoon shoreline fishing, with free parking (county park listing). It describes the 0.66 mile exercise trail as meandering through open and shaded areas, and notes that picnic tables, shelters, benches and small pavilions surround the playground.

The City of Titusville page lists 11 small to mid sized pavilions, barbecue grills, picnic tables, a playground and restrooms, and a blacktop walkway carrying the stationed 0.66 mile exercise trail (Titusville city park page). Its amenity list adds baseball and softball fields, boat ramps, picnic areas and shelters, and notes the park is close to downtown Titusville and its restaurants. The city also says fishing is a common activity near the shoreline, shared with osprey and pelicans.

Brevard County rents the Sand Point Park pavilions, which range from 13 by 13 foot shelters for 10 people to the Valicenti Pavilion, listed at capacity 750.

The county reservation list for the Titusville park reads as follows (county park listing):

Extra charges can apply where a shelter has water, power, a serving area or a kitchen, and a reservation never includes parking, which the county keeps open to everyone at the Titusville park. Its park description calls the Valicenti Pavilion over 2,000 square feet with a capacity of 750 people. The City of Titusville page describes the big shoreline pavilion differently, as a large pavilion with a kitchen seating up to 250, and gives 321-264-5105 for facility reservation information (Titusville city park page). Planners of a large Titusville event can confirm the current capacity with the county before booking.

Yes, Sand Point Park has a 1 lane motorized saltwater boat ramp that Brevard County also marks for canoes, on the Indian River near the juncture of U.S. 1 and the Max Brewer Causeway.

The county lists the ramp as 1 lane boat ramp (saltwater, motorized (+canoe)) and notes plenty of space for shoreline fishing (county park listing). For more launch lanes, the Titusville parks guide covers Parrish Park on the A. Max Brewer Causeway, with 6 lanes (county Parrish Park listing), and Marina Park, with 3 (county Marina Park listing).

The Astronaut Memorial Plaza near the south side of Sand Point Park was dedicated by the City of Titusville on Flag Day, June 14, 1986, and honors the Apollo, Challenger and Columbia crews.

Brevard County states that the plaza commemorates the astronaut crews of the Apollo, the Challenger and, more recently, the Columbia Space Shuttle (county park listing). The City of Titusville page places the Astronaut Memorial near the south entrance to the park (Titusville city park page). For the larger set of space program monuments in Titusville, the Space View Park guide covers the downtown park at 8 Broad St with its Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Shuttle monuments.

Sand Point was the original settlement that became Titusville, and the town carried the Sand Point name until it was officially renamed Titusville in 1873.

Explore Historic Titusville, the history site of the Titusville Historic Preservation Board, calls the roughly 30 acre site the original core of the City of Titusville (Explore Historic Titusville, Sand Point Park). During the Civil War, Confederate forces used the sandy promontory as a salt works, and after the war a group of British investors set up the Florida Provision Company there to ship fruit, vegetables and seafood from the settlers of LaGrange and Merritt Island. In 1868 Mary Hopkins Titus bought 73.3 acres at Sand Point from the defunct company, the Titus family arrived the same year and the Colonel opened a sawmill and a store, and mule team service ran from Sand Point to Enterprise on the St. Johns River. The same story says the settlement prospered and became a well known stop for steamers sailing up and down the Indian River.

The City of Titusville history page dates the founding to 1867, when the Colonel stepped ashore on the Indian River, and says the first U.S. Post Office in the area was established in 1859 in what was then known as Sand Point (City of Titusville, History of Titusville). The city account adds that the Colonel and Mary Titus built the first hotel, the Titus House, overlooking the spot where they had stepped ashore, donated land for the first courthouse and four churches, and laid out many of the town streets. The same city page tells how a domino game against Capt. Clark Rice settled the name, so that Sand Point became Titusville in 1873. The two official sources differ on the arrival: the city page dates the founding to 1867, when the Colonel stepped ashore, while Explore Historic Titusville says the Titus family arrived in 1868, the year of the land purchase; both agree on 1873 for the name change. Explore Historic Titusville notes that nothing remains of the original settlement.

Yes, Brevard County keeps Sand Point Park and its restrooms open to the public when a launch is scheduled after normal hours, and the city lists the park as a Titusville launch viewing spot.

That late opening covers the restrooms as well as the grounds, and the county tags the park for launch viewing next to its fishing, biking and ramp tags (county park listing). On the Titusville city launch page, Sand Point is one of seven listed viewing spots, with the downtown Space View Park and the Kirk Point area of Riverfront Park among the others (Titusville launch viewing page). Neither page posts a launch calendar. On ordinary days the Historic Preservation Board story gives the hours as dawn to dusk, with free admission (Explore Historic Titusville, Sand Point Park).

Last verified: October 21, 2026, by re-reading the City of Titusville and Brevard County Sand Point Park pages side by side, plus the city parks list, history and launch pages and the Explore Historic Titusville story, with the two addresses and two pavilion capacities left as each agency printed them.