• Visitors enjoying a stroll along Canaveral National Seashore's pristine beach

    Canaveral

    National Seashore Florida

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  • Haulover Canal Bridge Closure

    The Haulover Canal Bridge will be closed for construction beginning May 6, 2013. The bridge will be closed to all traffic for about 7 weeks. Access to the facilities on the north and south sides of the bridge will be open and unaffected.

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Welcome To Canaveral National Seashore!

We hope you will find Canaveral National Seashore to be a recreational paradise with it's back-country camping, horseback riding, canoeing, kayaking, hiking, fishing, surfing, swimming, boating and birdwatching opportunities.

As you pass through this national park area with its barrier island, open lagoon, coastal hammock, pine flatwoods and offshore waters, it is our hope that you will be enticed to linger in this environment of old Florida to view an endangered woodstork feeding along a roadside canal, or catch a glimpse of the West Indian Manatee near the Eldora State House.

We hope our website will help prepare you to experience the great variety of extraordinary natural and cultural resources and memorable experiences that await you at Canaveral National Seashore.

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The National Parks: America's Best Idea

Did You Know?

Tears remove salt from turtle's body while laying eggs

That the tears you see when a sea turtle is laying her eggs are actually the turtle's way of ridding her body of salt?