Welcome to Oak Park, a part of Florida's famed Space Coast. We are located in Titusville Florida at US 1 and LaGrange on Dixie Hwy. Just miles away awaits Orlando's many attractions, Cocoa Beach, Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge and the Atlantic Ocean. Snowbirds 55+ and full timers welcome! Bring your RV, Travel Trailer or Fifth Wheel, we have vacant pads with full hook-ups. Explore the Banana and Indian Rivers, filled with dolphins, manatee, rays, horseshoe crabs and numerous other types of wildlife.

 

Titusville 

Founded in 1867 when Confederate Col. Henry Theodore Titus stepped ashore on the banks of the Indian River, although the first U. S. Post Office in the area was established in 1859 in what was then known as Sand Point. Col. Titus came to Sand Point with the idea of building a town on land owned by his wife Mary, and overlooking the Indian River where they had first stepped ashore, they built the first hotel and named it "The Titus House". The Colonel and Mary donated land for the first courthouse, four churches, laid out many of the town's streets, and established a link to the outside world by connecting the St. Johns and Indian Rivers with mule-drawn wagons.

Today's "Titusville" might have been known as "Riceville" except for the craftiness of Col. Titus who won a challenge match of dominoes against Capt. Clark Rice to determine which player got to rename the town. Thus the outcome of a domino game resulted in Sand Point becoming Titusville, Florida in 1873.   

The nostalgic area offers arts and crafts shops, clothing and consignment shops, flower and gift shops and a nearby riverside park, as well as several popular restaurants.

Nearby  are other gift, hobby, museum and antique shops. Within one mile of downtown is the Titusville Municipal Marina with a ships store, a large seawall for viewing manatee and other marine life.

 

Cocoa Beach

Located on a barrier island, nestled between the great Atlantic Ocean and the Banana River Lagoon on Florida's Central East Coast, Cocoa Beach continues to link the birth of the Space Age with the wonders of the future. 

Just six miles long, and mostly less than one mile wide, Cocoa Beach is truly a unique place! Where else can you choose between watching a space launch from the beach or precious animal species in their natural habitat? You can choose between a swim in the ocean, or a quiet kayak exploration off the Banana River islands, from our river shore? Play a round of golf at our 27-holes golf course, surf cast from the beach for dinner, or just enjoy a day at the beach where you will likely see dolphins at play or be lucky enough to see an occasional whale in migration. Widely known as the surfing capital of the East Coast, Cocoa Beach is the hometown of surfing champions.

The primary attraction to Cocoa Beach is the weather. With its coastal location and positioned where two climatic zones (sub-tropic and temperate) meet, our weather usually avoids extremes. This unique location attracts wildlife indigenous to both climatic zones, as well as coastal and migratory species. And, of course, our weather, beaches and local amenities attract human visitors as well!

 

Cape Canaveral 

A headland in Brevard County, Florida, near the center of the state's Atlantic coast, also 45 minutes East of Orlando by car. It sits due east of Merritt Island, separated from it by the Banana River. It is part of a region known as the Space Coast, and is the site of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Since many United States spacecraft are launched from the Kennedy Space Center on nearby Merritt Island the term "Cape Canaveral" or "Canaveral" is often erroneously used to refer to as the launch site of manned spacecraft.

Other features of the cape include Cape Canaveral lighthouse and Port Canaveral. The city of Cape Canaveral is a few miles south of the cape. Mosquito Lagoon, The Indian River, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge and Canaveral National Seashore are also features of this area.

 

Cocoa 

Cocoa fronts on four miles of the beautiful Indian River includes fresh water and salt water fishing in the Indian River and Atlantic Ocean are popular past times as is a day at any of the nearby beaches.
The Indian River Queen offers daily cruises out of the marina here in Cocoa Village. The history of the City of Cocoa is rich, from the exciting Cocoa Playhouse to Riverside Drive and its old Florida mansions and the turn-of-the-century elegant and classic example of Florida architecture. Cocoa Village is host to year-round special events, street celebrations, parties and fund-raisers, and boasts over 60 specialty shops and one-of-a-kind restaurants. Be sure to visit the Alma Clyde Field Library of Florida History (formerly the Tebeau-Field Library). Located in Historic Cocoa Village, it is one of only two libraries in Florida that archives paper documents today. Visit the Brevard Museum of History & Science, the Astronaut Memorial Planetarium and Observatory located on the Brevard Community College, Cocoa Campus, or catch an evening performance at the Cocoa Village Playhouse.


Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge

The Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge is adjacent to the Kennedy Space Center and occupies land managed by the U.S. Government. A 22-square mile wetlands area, it is home to over 300 species of birds. Other residents in the refuge include ghost crabs, loggerhead and green sea turtles, reptiles,
raccoons and bobcats. Visit the Blackpoint Wildlife Drive, a seven mile, one-way road, that  will provide you with views of many of the animals mentioned above. Numbered stops along the drive correspond to numbered paragraphs in a
leaflet you can pick up.

 

Kennedy Space Center

Around the NASA complex, a tourist attraction has grown and continues to regularly expand and upgrade its exciting offerings. Here is the seat of the Space Coast’s identity, an attraction that encompasses several campuses with launch site bus tours, IMAX theaters, a center devoted to moon exploration, an astronaut’s hall of fame, space exploration history exhibits, robotized presentations, opportunities to meet real live astronauts, and sensational space simulation rides.

 

Melbourne

The City of Melbourne is located on east central Florida's Space Coast.  Melbourne is about an hour's drive south of the Kennedy Space Center, and 1-1/2 hours due east of Disney World.

The City is in the southern portion of Brevard County. Interstate-95 runs through the county from north-to-south.  Access roads from the west include the Beachline Expressway (formerly the Beeline) and U.S. 192, which runs through Melbourne to the beaches.

Nearby incorporated communities include Palm Bay, West Melbourne, Indialantic, Melbourne Beach, Indian Harbour Beach, and Satellite Beach. Viera and Suntree, unincorporated communities, are also nearby.

While most of Melbourne is located on the Florida mainland, a small portion is located on a barrier island. The Indian River Lagoon separates the mainland from the island. The island is a narrow strip of land that separates the Lagoon from the Atlantic Ocean. (In prehistoric times the Lagoon was connected to the Ocean. Today, the only connection is by way of a handful of inlets, including the manmade Sebastian Inlet at the southern end of Brevard County.)

Spanning the Indian River Lagoon to connect the mainland to the barrier island are a pair of four-lane, high-rise bridges -- the Melbourne Causeway and the Eau Gallie Causeway.

 

 

 

 

 

Jason Hooper