Things to do & places to visit in St. Augustine, Florida, United States

Saint Augustine is a luxurious, romantic vacation spot—you’ll find classic hotels and intimate restaurants. Those can be a dime a dozen, though. What sets Saint Augustine apart is its history—it’s the oldest European settlement in the U.S. And nowhere else in the world can you taste the waters of the Fountain of Youth Archeological Park (where Ponce de Leon may have landed). Who knows, if you vacation here, maybe you won’t need that Botox!

St. Augustine municipality in Florida, United States. Timezone: America/New_York, current date and time: Monday, May 13, 2024, 15:24.

Top things to do (22)

Top places to visit (30 attractions) view more »

5.0 St. Augustine Distillery (8.239 reviews)
- Excellent Private tasting experience
Monday: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Spent 1-2 hours Distilleries

St. Augustine Distillery is a locally owned and operated, artisanal spirits distillery in historic, downtown St. Augustine. Located within a beautifully restored ice plant from the turn-of-the-century, our mission is simple: Educate and inspire our guests about our handcrafted, award-winning rum, bourbon whiskey, gin, and vodka. All of our spirits are made from local and regional agricultural products. The result is undeniable; world-class spirits that create the best local cocktails imaginable. Come taste for yourself. St. Augustine Distillery offers free tours and tastings seven days a week. See more..
5.0 St. Augustine Wild Reserve (2.168 reviews)
- A must visit and worth a detour if heading to So FL or Orlando!!!
Monday: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Spent 1-2 hours Nature & Wildlife Areas • Zoos

The St. Augustine Wild Reserve offers tours by appointment on Mon, Wed, & Sat at 2pm, and Sat. at 11am. We also offer a VIP tour Friday at noon. Email for reservations. Guests will be given a tour of the Reserve by a wildlife professional. An intro to each species & how the species arrived here will be discussed. Visitors will have a close-up view of the exotic animals, and will venture closer to adult lions and tigers than they ever imagined. Meet our amazing white tigers, orange tigers, golden tabby tiger, white lions, cougars, bear, servals, lynxes, leopards, hyenas, & wolves. We feed big cats on the tours, and set up a tiger bubblebath. It gets exciting when the big cats eat! You will also howl with the wolves at tour's end. We don't allow photography; we offer a photo flash drive for a small donation, as well as refrigerator magnets of your favorite animals. To book a tour, log onto bookeo.com/tigertours. Cost is $35/adults; kids 10 & under, $25.00; and kids 2 and under, $5.00. See more..
5.0 The Ximenez-Fatio House (572 reviews)
- Great visit
Monday: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Spent < 1 hour Speciality Museums

Dating to the Spanish town plan of 1573, the property is a centerpiece of St. Augustine’s oldest settlement and is a feature along the city’s first platted thoroughfare, Aviles Street.“The Ximenez~Fatio House museum is one of the first to interpret 19th century women’s history”William Seale, Ph.D.; author, historian, and consultant for interpretation since the 1970’s. See more..
5.0 Magic Hideaway (177 reviews)
- An immersive, 100% fun, amazing experience
Monday: Spent 2-3 hours Cabarets

Hidden in the nations oldest city, there’s a brand new secret. Hidden in the very heart of St. Augustine, Florida inside the luxurious Casa Monica hotel is an experience unlike any other. The Magic Hideaway, is an evening of laughter, wonder and mind-bending illusions hosted by Master Magician Bill Abbott. Featuring world-class magic and mind reading in a well-appointed secret show room. Intimate by design, the Magic Hideaway hosts a very limited number of guests per evening, so the magic can be experienced up close and personally. Interactive illusions that happen literally inches away from your eyes! See more..
5.0 Classic Car Museum Of St. Augustine (132 reviews)
- This is a great museum for car clubs!
Monday: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Spent 1-2 hours Speciality Museums

Classic Car Museum of St Augustine was created to help bring memories back to life as only Classic Cars can do. Founded on the principles of sharing, charitable giving, community involvement, education, and a whole lot of fun. The Classic Car Museum is a 30,000 sq ft special events space, museum and classic car storage facility located in the Nation’s Oldest City, St. Augustine, FL. See more..
4.5 Castillo de San Marcos National Monument (11.0k reviews)
- Good historical representation of the importance of the fort to the city's history.
Monday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Historic Sites • Castles • Monuments & Statues

Really enjoyed our visit. Use your national parks card for free entry. Self guided tour using literature from ticket booth. Recommend entering the fort, and then turning left and visiting the rooms in a clockwise motion (this way you'll visit the exhibits in their chronological order) until you've completed the ground level, then proceed to the upper level for some great views. A bit more interaction from available Rangers/Reenactors would have been good, but seemed staff inside the fort was limited. See more..
4.5 St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum, Inc. (6.781 reviews)
- Outstanding visit
Monday: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM Spent 1-2 hours Lighthouses • History Museums

Two seniors visited here in late January 2023 and had an excellent day. We literally spent from 10am until 5pm here. Between the actual lighthouse, the shipbuilder’s area (where they are building a couple of actual sea-going boats), the archaeology conservation building and the actual three story museum, we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Note that we are history nerds and tend to absorb/read all of the information available, so YMMV in how long you stay. They even offer lighthouse keeper tours for a few dollars more that looked interesting but were all filled up for our available times. The actual museum had exhibits on the lighthouse, the keepers and their families, commercial shrimping in the area, and underwater archaeology they have done in the local rivers including cannons and other artifacts from the Revolutionary War that they have found and are conserving. Well worth your time. Elementary age children and older would most likely find it interesting also. See more..
4.5 St. George Street (5.746 reviews)
- Photo opportunities
Spent 2-3 hours Points of Interest & Landmarks

Lovely old street with fabulous buildings. Easy to find, pedestrianised, yes some homeless guys drinking down the side of the road but no bother at all. Nice to wander along. We went after 5pm so street parking was free, some shops shut and we found the restaurants in this area to be very expensive. See more..
4.5 Flagler College (5.021 reviews)
- First time need to see!
Monday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Spent < 1 hour Educational sites

Just in time for the holidays, historical tours of Flagler College's Hotel Ponce de Leon will begin hourly tours starting Saturday, December 11 through January 2. Tours will depart at 10 am, 11 am, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm. Due to limited capacity, it is heavily suggested to purchase tickets in advance. Tours highlight the architectural heritage of the former Hotel Ponce de Leon, a nationally designated historic landmark building, built by Henry Flagler in 1888. The tour begins in the Rotunda, a 64-foot domed ceiling supported by eight ornately carved oak pillars. The interior dome displays stunning murals by George Maynard. The 800 seat Dining Hall boasts an elliptical barrel-vaulted ceiling, pierced with Tiffany stained-glass windows, musicians’ galleries, and carved oak chairs imported from Austria. Today students casually take their meals seated on these chairs. See more..
4.5 St. Augustine Beach (4.679 reviews)
- The prettiest sunrises I’ve ever seen
Beaches

The prettiest sunrise I’ve ever seen. Different every morning. Take a chair and a cup of coffee and enjoy. Or get your walking shoes on. Dog friendly. I don’t have a dog but if I did, I would vacation here. Surfers love the waves early in the morning about 7:00 am and starting again at 5:30 pm. We love watching them in the after dinner. Butt friendly. If you love wearing a thong, this is the place for you. This is My happy place. So peaceful and quiet. If you’re looking for relaxation, you’ve come to the right place. See more..
4.5 St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park (3.961 reviews)
- Wait until they’re older!
Monday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Nature & Wildlife Areas

This is my 3rd or 4th time visiting the Alligator Farm but it’s been a few years. This was my first time with my 2 granddaughters- 3 and 20 months. It was fun, but they were done after about an hour and a half. They were only interested in the alligators and crocodiles for a while and feeding them was fun. We arrived too late for the 12:00 show and they were ready to go before the 3:-show. The prices have increased and at $35 for each adult (x5) and $20 for the 3year old (under 2 was free) … it was quite an expensive trip. At that price point, I was hoping that they had added some other animals. I would recommend this for older kids… but don’t spend this kind of money on the toddlers. See more..
4.5 St. Augustine Pirate & Treasure Museum (3.319 reviews)
- Informative and fun
Monday: 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM Spent 1-2 hours Speciality Museums • History Museums

Relive the Golden Age of Piracy at Pat Croce's St. Augustine Pirate & Treasure Museum! The world's largest collection of authentic pirate artifacts; fun, interactive exhibits, including the award-winning Book of Pirates and the spine-tingling Disney Imagineer-designed Below Deck sound experience of Blackbeard’s last battle; the world’s only pirate treasure chest; one of only three existing 17th century Jolly Rogers; and rarely-seen shipwreck treasures from the Florida Division of Historical Resources. See more..
4.5 Lightner Museum (2.961 reviews)
- Worth your Time.
Monday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Spent 1-2 hours Speciality Museums

Located in the heart of downtown St. Augustine, Lightner Museum occupies the historic Alcazar Hotel, a Gilded Age resort hotel built in 1888 by railroad magnate Henry Flagler. Founded in 1948, the Museum is home to one of the premier collections of 19th-and early 20th-century fine and decorative art in the country. Furnishings, paintings, leaded glass windows, cut and blown glass, and natural history specimens from the Otto Lightner Collection are exhibited against the backdrop of the magnificent Alcazar Hotel. Visitors to the Museum are invited to participate in an immersive experience of art, architecture, and design from America’s Gilded Age. We are open every day except for Christmas Eve (close at 1PM), Christmas day, and New Year's Day. Our hours are from 9AM-5PM with last entry precisely at 4PM. See more..
4.5 Old Jail Museum (2.916 reviews)
- Great stop for history fans
Monday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Historic Sites

The Old Jail Museum is in a complex north of the colonial town that has a number of activites, tours and shops. The workers in the complex all dress up like they're from the 1800s and walk around acting their parts. For example, there was a convict in stripes looking gruff and angry walking around and grumbling about the unfair treatment, hangmans noose, etc. He totally stayed in character when I said "How can they just let the criminals walk the streets here." Then he followed us around a bit. It was really funny. We had only a few hours, so we did the Oldest Store Museum tour and it was so much fun. The gentleman guide was a salesman and he played up the part in really cute ways. Very interactive and fun tour - and so cool to see all the old contraptions!! We were sad to not have time to do everything and will 100% be back. See more..
4.5 Fort Matanzas National Monument (2.148 reviews)
- Another well-done NPS site
Monday: 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM Historic Sites • National Parks

This fort is on Rattlesnake Island and can be reached via ferry. See more..
4.5 San Sebastian Winery (2.082 reviews)
- Free Wine Tasting Tour with Great Wine
Monday: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Wineries & Vineyards

San Sebastian Winery, founded in 1996 is located at 157 King Street, St. Augustine, Florida in one of Henry Flagler’s old East Coast Railway buildings located just a few blocks from historic downtown. According to historians, this area is the birthplace of American wine, dating back to 1562. Today, San Sebastian ranks as one of Florida's premium wineries, and remains a pioneer in the development of table, sparkling and dessert wines from hybrid and muscadine grapes. Port and Cream Sherry dessert wines are produced by and sold under the San Sebastian brand. The Cellar Upstairs Wine Bar & Restaurant at San Sebastian Winery is open with modified hours Thursday - Sunday. Relax and take in the spectacular views from the open-air decks while listening to live music. Enjoy a variety of delectable sandwiches, meat & cheese platters, salads and much more to accompany your favorite San Sebastian wine, as well as imported and domestic beer. See more..
4.5 Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine (1.886 reviews)
- Both an historical and spiritual site.
Monday: 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM Religious Sites • Churches & Cathedrals

A beautiful historical site and still an active faith community. We did not have time for the tour but the gentleman working in the gift shop provided interesting background information. Worth a walkthrough for anyone because of the history. Many no matter your faith traditions will also find it spiritually moving. See more..
4.5 Old City (1.614 reviews)
- Not much here
Historic Sites • Neighborhoods

This is a small 5 building city with a unique spicery, old jail and the location for bus tours.I would look at the overall pricing for the tours and buy the only ones that you can’t walk to. The night ghost tour us the best. See more..
4.5 Anastasia State Park (1.370 reviews)
- Beautiful Park
Monday: 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM State Parks

Anastasia State Park includes 1,600 acres of rich ecosystems and abundant wildlife. Explore up to four miles of pristine beach, the estuarine tidal marsh teeming with plant and animal life, or the self-guided nature trail which takes you through the maritime hammock and onto ancient sand dunes. You can also visit the Coquina Quarry, an archaeological site where coquina rock was mined to help construct the nearby Castillo de San Marcos National Monument, earning it a spot on the National Register of Historic Places. At Anastasia, there are many recreational activities to enjoy including hiking, swimming, beachcombing, bird watching, and much more. The campground contains 139 campsites all located within the beautiful maritime hammock and just a short walk or bike ride from the beach. Anastasia has concessions to provide guests with rental opportunities of bicycles, paddleboards, kayaks, sail boats and canoes. There is also a grill area and a small gift shop for visitors to take home an Anastasia memory. The grill location also provides Wi-Fi for visitors' use. See more..
4.5 Colonial Quarter (1.234 reviews)
- Interesting, Educational AND fun!
Monday: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Historic Sites

Take an immersive journey through centuries of St. Augustine's rich history, brought to life at this revitalized two-acre attraction in the heart of the downtown historic district. Tour, dine, shop and enjoy an interactive Historic Adventure Tour or discover on your own from climbing a 35-foot watchtower to exploring the 270 year old Demesa House. Your history begins here! See more..
4.5 National Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche at Mission Nombre de Dios (1.177 reviews)
- Breathtaking views, informative musuem and inspiring church.
Monday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Spent 1-2 hours Historic Sites • Missions • Religious Sites

Beautiful grounds, museum and Catholic church. This is a great place to visit as a tourist, but especially if you are Catholic and want to learn about how the Spanish helped found St. Augustine. The church is intimate and breathtaking at the same time. There is so much to take in as you walk the grounds outside and in the cemetery. May God bless all who visit and especially those mothers and children in need of blessings! See more..
4.5 Medieval Torture Museum (946 reviews)
- Very Interesting
Monday: 10:00 AM - 10:00 PM Spent < 1 hour Speciality Museums • History Museums

The "Medieval Torture Museum" reminds us just how much suffering humanity can inflict in the name of cause and justice when the right tools are placed in the hands of fanatics, madmen and tyrants. The exhibit fills more than 4000 sq. ft. Spend an hour here and you will better know the nature of fear. Are you brave enough? See more..
4.5 Vilano Beach (927 reviews)
- Favorite St Augustine Beach Spot
Beaches

I always love how quiet this beach is. You can always find your own spot to set up and there is never tons of people in the water. Perfect wave jumping spot and place to find shells. It is hit or miss if the beach is super sandy or covered in shell. The first day we came the whole beach was shell, but the rest of the trip the beach was nice and sandy. If you don’t have a chair and are planning on laying your towel straight on the beach, I highly recommend a beach mat/rug in case you hit a shell covered beach day. Dog friendly! See more..
4.5 The Oldest Store Museum (909 reviews) from $15.96
- Surprised at how much fun this tour was
Spent < 1 hour History Museums

Watch in amazement as our friendly clerks, butcher and Snake Oil salesman demonstrate the very latest inventions for turn -of-the century living. You will find over 10,00 essential and time saving items from the 1900s! See more..
4.5 World Golf Hall of Fame & Museum (909 reviews) from $20.95
- World Golf and Bob Hope Hall of Fame
Monday: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Spent 2-3 hours Speciality Museums

The World Golf Hall of Fame & Museum provides an extensive look at the game of golf through stories, artifacts, videos, art and photography of its members within 75,000 square foot exhibition space. Guests have the opportunity to enhance their visit with an audio tour guide that tells "behind the scenes" stories from Hall of Fame members themselves. Admission includes two-day access to the museum and a shot on the Challenge Hole. It is open daily, observes holiday hours on New Year's Eve and Christmas Eve and is closed Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. See more..
4.5 Memorial Presbyterian Church (824 reviews)
- Stunning! But couldn’t view the inside
Temporarily closed - Closed until further notice Churches & Cathedrals

The present sanctuary was given by Henry Morrison Flagler and dedicated in 1890 as a memorial to his daughter Jenny Louise Benedict who died from complications from childbirth. Mr. Flagler, his first wife, Mary, daughter Jenny Louise and granddaughter, Marjorie, are entombed in the Flagler family mausoleum at Memorial. For almost 200 years, Memorial Presbyterian Church has not only remained a major figure in the St. Augustine skyline but also a major contributor to the community surrounding it. We are an active congregation with a full range of worship, music, education, mission, fellowship, and pastoral ministries. Memorial Presbyterian Church members are vitally involved in the life and work of the community and the church reaches into the community and, in concert with others, into the world with the good news of God’s love in Jesus Christ. The Sanctuary is open for self guided tours Tues - Saturday from 11:00 a.m. until 3:45 p.m. unless we have a wedding or memorial service. See more..
4.5 Old St. Augustine Village (651 reviews)
- Colonial St Augustine
Historic Sites

A city block of St. Augustine's history, with historic houses spanning the period from 1790-1910. See more..
4.5 Spanish Military Hospital Museum (601 reviews) from $12.72
- Excellent museum and tour
Monday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Spent < 1 hour Military Museums • History Museums

Your journey to the past begins as our skilled surgeon performs surgical demonstrations. Watch as our Apothecary creates medicines and discover how colonial herbs were the origins of some of the most popular medicines today. We are pet friendly!! See more..
4.0 Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park (2.881 reviews)
- Iconic site in St. Augustine
Monday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Spent 1-2 hours Historic Sites • Points of Interest & Landmarks • Parks

Explore the 1565 Birthplace of St. Augustine and Colonial European America. Your History Starts here! Drink the legendary waters. See Stars in the Planetarium. Hear a Spanish Cannon roar. Visit the Timucua Indian Village. Learn the Archaeological History of the site. From Timucua Indians living at this site for 4,000 years to Spanish Explorers arriving in 1513 to Smithsonian institute Archaeological Digs starting in 1934, the history is amazing. Guests have been visiting this important site since 1871. Now you can too. Don't miss it! See more..
4.0 Ripley's Believe It Or Not (1.750 reviews)
- Value was in the tour for us.
Monday: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Speciality Museums

A museum housing a strange collection of the odd, the unusual and the downright weird. See more..