Cocoa Beach & Pier
Cocoa Beach Pier
The Atlantic beach closest to Orlando and a famous surfing town. Eat seafood on the pier and watch rockets lift off from Cape Canaveral.
Cocoa Beach lies on the Atlantic coast about 85 km east of Orlando. It is a surfing hotspot on Florida's east coast and the hometown of surfing legend Kelly Slater. The roughly 240-meter Cocoa Beach Pier, built in 1962, has restaurants, bars and gift shops and is a great spot for sunrise and ocean views. The wide beach is free to use, but roadside parking is charged. The Kennedy Space Center is about a 30-minute drive away, and visitors often plan the beach and the space center for the same day, watching rocket launches from the sand.
Opening hours
Beach open all day; pier about 07:00–22:00
Nearby sights
- Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
- Harry P. Leu Gardens
- Winter Park & Park Avenue
- Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art
- Lake Eola Park
- Orlando Science Center
- Gatorland
- Universal Epic Universe