Things to do in Merritt Island

The Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens offers the chance to come face-to-face with the wildest animals from around the world in just a few hours! Journey through the zoo and observe cats on the prowl, watch playful monkeys, hear beautiful birds, and see many endangered species. Make sure you check out everything the zoo has to offer, including the Wharton-Smith Tropical Splash Ground, Barnyard Buddies Children’s Zoo, an Insect Zoo, a Herpetarium, and much more. It's fun for the entire family! If you're driving, there's even free parking.

Enjoy a day up close with dolphins, penguins, and more!

Learn about the natural world, the fun way

SEA LIFE Orlando is an aquarium located in Orlando, Florida. A family-friendly attraction, it houses a large number of fish and other ocean creatures. Visitors can experience Florida's only 360° tunnel, as well as unique dive and feeding shows. Aquarium talks and feeding times: Stingray Cove: Feeding daily at 11:00 and 14:00, talk daily at 16:00 Indian Ocean Show: Meet the divers and watch a feeding at 14:30 and 17:30 (no 17:30 dive on Mondays and Fridays) Shark Ship Wreck Show: Meet the divers daily at 11:30 and 15:30, educational talk daily at 17:00 and 18:00, Octopus enrichment daily at 13:45 Pacific Ocean Show: Meet the divers and see a feeding daily at 12:30 and 16:30 Indian Ocean: Educational talk daily at 12:00 and 13:00, seahorse feeding daily at 15:00 Atlantic Ocean Dive Show: Meet the divers daily at 11:30 and 15:30

Daytona International Speedway has been Florida’s home for motorsport, but its real claim to fame is the Daytona 500 – NASCAR’s most prestigious race. The 2.5 mile (4 km) round track has a 180-acre infield at its centre, with the 29-acre Lake Lloyd – which has hosted powerboat racing – inside that. If you're nuts for NASCAR, make sure to take a guided tour of the track.

Andretti Indoor Karting & Games is part of an entertainment center featuring the latest in electric go-karting, an arcade, laser quest and other activities. It is located in Orlando, Florida.

The Crayola Experience is a large interactive activity center in Florida centered around the famous Crayola crayon. There are 26 family-fun activities catered to children, including conventional arts and crafts and high-tech digital play stations.

Gatorland is a wildlife park and animal-rescue center in Florida, US. Dubbed the Alligator Capital of the World, Gatorland is home to thousands of alligators and crocodiles. Featuring various animal encounter experiences, live shows, zip lines over alligator swamps, and more, Gatorland allows visitors to come face to face with some of the most fearsome reptiles on the planet, in a safe, educational environment.

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Experience a theme park built around some of your favorite films in Orlando

Explore the wonders of the everglades with a day trip from Orlando!

Wild Florida operates tours around Central Florida. They use airboats to navigate the watery wilderness of the Everglades, taking visitors on an all-American safari to see Florida's diverse range of wildlife. They also run the Gator and Wildlife Park, where visitors can get up close and personal with some enormous alligators, as well as a host of other wild animals from Florida and around the world.

View an ancient alligator in Orlando

WonderWorks is a family-friendly theme park located on International Drive in Orlando, Florida. It features 35,000 sq ft of 'edutainment' across six different zones. It's easy to reach with a car. Parking is available at the Pointe Orlando parking garage.

The Orlando chapter of the internationally renowned wax attraction Madame Tussauds is home to an amazing cast of lifelike wax figures, from the glitzy world of Hollywood, the music industry, politics, sport, history, and even comic books!

LEGOLAND® Florida Park is a holiday destination in Winter Haven, Florida. Built on the site of the former Cypress Gardens theme park, LEGOLAND® Florida Park preserves the beautiful botanical gardens, while adding more than fifty rides, shows, attractions, restaurants, and shops, as well as a water park, and lots of LEGO®-themed on-site accommodations.

Island H2O is a water park in Citrus Ridge, Florida. The park is themed around social media and lets visitors win points for posts and live streams of them on the slides. The park is around a ten-minute drive from Disney's Animal Kingdom.

Discovery Cove, Orlando is the perfect way to get in touch with Florida' rich nature in a relaxing, tropical atmosphere – complete with a white-sand beach. Along with an aviary where some 250 tropical birds fly freely, guests also have the chance to swim with bottlenose dolphins. It's also the perfect place to relax. Unwind in the heated Tropical River that runs through the aviary and passes by Discovery Cove's beaches, waterfalls, and lunch landscape before reaching a freshwater pool.