Fort Caroline National Memorial, Florida, United States
4.0 (319 reviews) Monday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Spent Ranking #15 in Jacksonville Parks
Slice of History at Fort Caroline
Visited Fort Caroline while on a family vacation. Husband planned a history day so we drove from Orlando to Jacksonville for a day of history. Our first stop was Fort Caroline. We stopped at the visitor center and went thru the small museum area then headed outside to walk a trail and see the Fort. We saw a village typical for the Timucuuan Indians and learned about the Spanish massacre of the French. It was very interesting.
Address
12713 Fort Caroline Rd, Jacksonville, FL 32225-1299
Mobile
Website
http://www.nps.gov/timu/learn/historyculture/foca.htm
Working hours
Monday : 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday : 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday : 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday : 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday : 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday : 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sunday : 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Current local date and time now
Monday, May 13, 2024, 1:34
User Ratings
4.0 based on (319 reviews)
Reviews
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4ChrisH 5:00 PM Feb 3, 2023
Nice visit
Two adults visited here on a Sunday in late January 2023 and enjoyed our visit. It is part of the Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve. We listened to a very knowledgeable National Park Ranger tell several people the fascinating history of the fort and then how to walk to it and the associated nature trail, which took us about 45 minutes. The fort itself was just a five minute walk from the Visitor Center. Note that it is a reproduction/best guess of what the original fort looked like from the 1560s and is very small/underwhelming. There is a longer nature trail across the road and the associated visitor center with some interesting exhibits. As an aside, we heard about Kingsley Plantation across the river in the northern portion of the Preserve from a Ranger and went there next. That was a five star exceptional NPS site. Highly recommended.
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4Brendan S 5:00 PM Jan 8, 2022
First European settlement
Fort Caroline is a part of the sprawling Timacuan Park. It tells a story about the little-known origins of European settlement in America when French Protestants settled on the Florida Coast before being wiped out in battle with the Spanish Catholics in the 16th Century. There is not much left from the time period, but there is a reconstruction of the small wooden fort built to protect the settlement and a monument to the founding of the colony that arguably preceded the more famous St. Augustine nearby.
