Alan Shepard Park
✓ Oceanfront park
✓ Restrooms and showers
✓ Picnic facilities
✓ Paid city parking
✓ Near the Cocoa Beach Pier / retail area
Cocoa Beach
Cocoa Beach Guide
The easiest Brevard beach area for visitors who want multiple staffed beach zones, lots of access choices and nearby food, shops and surf culture.
Beach access
Where to start.
Official access info ↗
Lori Wilson Park
✓ Large oceanfront county park
✓ Free parking
✓ Restrooms and outdoor showers
✓ Boardwalk and multiple dune crossovers
✓ Dog park is separate from the beach
Sidney Fisher Park
✓ Oceanfront city park
✓ Family-oriented
✓ Picnic pavilions and playground
✓ Paid city parking
Before you get in the water.
✓ Brevard Ocean Rescue lists full-time towers at the Cocoa Beach Pier, Shepard Park, Lori Wilson Park and Minutemen Causeway, generally 10 AM–5 PM.
✓ Cocoa Beach uses standard beach warning flags for surf, current and marine-life hazards.
✓ Dogs are allowed only in the designated Cocoa Beach dog-beach area and during posted hours—not across the entire shoreline.
Use the posted flags and official rescue info.
Conditions can be different from what the beach looked like an hour earlier. Swim near staffed towers when possible and treat warning flags seriously.
Try another stretch
A different kind of beach day.
Satellite Beach
A quieter beachside stretch with several city-managed beach parks, easy surf access and less tourist intensity than central Cocoa Beach.
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Central and south beachside combine lifeguarded county parks, free-parking options, surf fishing and quieter barrier-island access.
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More than three miles of Atlantic beach plus inlet scenery, surfing, fishing and a protected cove—beautiful, but with more current and access considerations than a typical city beach.
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