Jacksonville Florida Ideas!

[Loving_God_s_Co]

We will be heading to Jacksonville and staying at Hanna park in mid February. Not ever being to Jacksonville before I would love ideas of places to see and do and also some great oceanfront restaurants. Thanks!

[2012Coleman]

Go to St. Augustine and take a trolley tour. You can get on an off at different stops. Tour the Lightner museum and distillery. Do the tour there and at the end you can sample their products. I recommend asking to try the gin neat.

There is a great CG on A1A called North Beach Resort. Look it up and consider it for future stays.

[Showme_5vr]

Singleton's Seafood Shack in Mayport. Great food and right on the river.

[Loving_God_s_Co]

Thank you all for your input! We are looking forward to go up there and try your suggestions! Thank you again!

[garmp]

If you make St Augustine & haven't been there numerous times, I suggest taking a segway tour of the city. Not only are they fun to ride but the guide explains a world of information, from history to places to eat, park, and anything else you might ask or want to know. Well worth the money, at least for us!

[Horsedoc]

Just being sorta silly, but right now snow skiing might be an idea. 😉

[352]

The Zoo. A pretty good one.

[cyntdon2010]

Tour the Jaguars Stadium(NFL) home ,Near Mayport there is a place called Seafood kitchen, great food priced reasonable. when we camp at hanna park its our Go to place, enjoy

[DownTheAvenue]

1.Fort Caroline National Memorial, 1st European settlement in North America before St. Augustine.
2.Kingsley Plantation well preserved sea island cotton plantation
3.Fort Clinch

[Big_Katuna]

Also take the car ferry at Mayport and go tour the Kingsley Plantation a National Park.

Jax has a few places that made it on Diners Drive ins and Dives.

[ependydad]

There's a pizza chain called Mellow Mushroom that's one of our favorites. It's not just in Jacksonville, so it's not a "local eats" kind of place, but my hometown didn't have them and it is a treat for us to find one.

[Big_Katuna]

Mayport Safe Harbor and Jax Beach Safe Harbor are awesome seafood restaurants.

There are lots of good restaurants in Jax.

[agesilaus]

RGar974417 wrote:
The old Spanish fort is pretty neat.We also went to the zoo.

That about sums up my first thoughts on Jax. Go down to St Augustine as a day trip and visit the Alligator Farm which is better than it sounds. Feb might be a bit early but when the birds are nesting (big egrets and such) they have boardwalks that let you walk within a few feet of the nests. There are all sorts of other touristy things to do in Augustine as well. Just walking around the downtown area for a start.

Jax is not a tourist orientated town.

[monkey44]

Take a run down to St Augustine too, at least for a day. Very historic, art galleries, waterfront, Historic CASTILLO DE San Marcos Fort.

Eat at Harry's - a bit pricey, but excellent.

[loggenrock]

This past May we stayed at Hanna Park - visited the Museum of Science and History (MOSH) in Jacksonville, and also toured around Amelia Island. Nice time! ST