Fort Pickens Area

The Fort Pickens area has many activites and facilities available for visitors. Historic structures like Fort Pickens, Battery Cooper, and Battery Worth are spread throughout the area. Tent and RV camping is available at the Fort Pickens campground, and several parking lots with beach access are located along the road after passing through the entrance station.

Passport stamps and junior ranger booklets are available at the park store located inside the historic fort. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Facilities

An array of products such as t-shirts, water bottles, and books is available for purchase.

Purchase Park memorabilia and collect your stamps.

Purchase refreshments, view exhibits, restrooms, and purchase ferry tickets.

A Life-Saving Station is also used as the campground registration office.

A wood pavilion overlooks a white sand beach.

Accessible swimming area with restrooms, outdoor showers, parking, and a pavilion.

Brick pavilions stand in the sun with a tree in the foreground.

Pavilions, restrooms, picnic tables, and trails with a historic battery nearby.

Historic Structures

The corner of a fort stands on a grassy field with wooden fencing and clouds in the background.

Explore a Civil War era fort with a ranger, or using our self-guided tour on the mobile app.

The sunsets over the water, in the foreground a cannon is mounted.

Concrete batteries and support structures modernized the Fort Pickens defenses in the late 1800s, early 1900s.

Operating Hours

Entrance Station Gate:

March 1 - October 31: 5 a.m. to 8 p.m.
November 1 - February 28: 5 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Ferry Service from Pensacola and Pensacola Beach Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Purchase a ticket here www.pensacolabaycityferry.com.

Fort Pickens Gate: 8 a.m. to sunset (year-round)

Overnight parking is not permitted year-round.

Directions

Fort Pickens Area Map

From Interstate 10: Take Exit 12 for I-110 South, exit 1B Gregory Street East, merge onto 30 E Chase Street, turn left onto Bayfront Parkway /Hwy 98 East, merge onto Hwy 399 to beaches, cross toll bridge ($1.00), turn right onto Fort Pickens Road.

Fort Pickens Address: 1400 Fort Pickens Rd, Pensacola Beach, FL 32561

Plan Your Visit

This area requires an entrance fee. Credit cards only.
Concessions are only provided in the ferry plaza mine storeroom building.
No pets allowed on the beach. Pets must be on a six-foot leash and attended to at all times.
A fishing license is required to fish in the park, except for on the Fort Pickens fishing pier.
The use of UTVs/ATVs, skateboards, scooters, golf carts, and segways are not allowed in the park.
Langdon Beach Swim Beach has a lifeguard assigned from Memorial Day to Labor Day.
Accessible beach mats and wheelchairs are provided at Langdon Beach. Ask a ranger in the campground registration office to borrow the beach wheelchair.
Swimming is allowed in all areas of the park except within 200 feet of the Fort Pickens fishing pier and the Fort Pickens ferry dock.
Check the weather, the area is at high risk for rip currents.
Gatherings larger than 26 people may require permits.