Spanish Pond

Spanish Pond in Winter

NPS Photo/Stankiewicz

Quick Facts

Location:

12713 Fort Caroline Road Jacksonville, Florida 32225- Across from Fort Caroline Entrance

Significance:

Trails

Amenities

6 listed

Benches/Seating, Cellular Signal, Parking - Auto, Trailhead, Trash/Litter Receptacles, Wheelchair Accessible

Five hundred Spanish soldiers marched four days through marsh, forest tangle, fierce winds, and heavy rainfall to an encampment near here. This is potentially where Menendez and his men camped, exhausted and weary, the night before the attack and capture of Fort Caroline.

Today, Spanish Pond's boardwalk and trail provide an opportunity for a quiet walk and connects you to more trails through pine flatwoods, oak hammock, tidal marsh in the neighboring Theodore Roosevelt Area.

Spanish Pond is located across from the entrance to Fort Caroline National Memorial and is open from sunrise to sunset daily.