Welcome to the Friends of Lee County Manatee Park. Watch for updates on the arrival of manatees when they come to warm up in our canal.
Open 8am to sunset every day of the year.
Parking Fees apply: December 1st - March 31st $2.00 per hour or maximum of $5.00 per vehicle, per day. April 1st - November 30th $1.00 per hour or maximum $5.00 per vehicle, per day.
$20.00 per tour bus per visit
$10.00 per tour van per visit
Lee County residents provide visitor services as Volunteer Interpretive Naturalists trained in part by the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission. While small in size, Lee County Manatee Park provides information and programming for over 150,000 visitors annually.
This facebook page is managed by Volunteers.
Optimum viewing times are between the months of November and March due to the cooler gulf temperature. Manatee Park is a non-captive refuge for the Florida Manatee. Manatees are generally not present during the warm summer months. The park has an extensive butterfly garden. The park is a demonstration landscape for the Florida Yards and Neighborhoods (FYN) program. Picnic areas & shelters, fishing pier on the Orange River. Canoe/kayak launch to the Orange River. Program amphitheater and playground.
Sun-N-Fun Mobile Homeowners
1 miles
Great place to meet friendly people, enjoy variety of games offered. There is other a...
Upriver RV Resort
1 miles
Nice amenities. Great staff and very accomodating. Relocated from Collier-Seminole ...
Caloosahatchee Creeks Preserve (East)
1 miles
A beautiful place. It was very wet and puddles everywhere in the furthest trail. I se...
Caloosahatchee Creeks Preserve West
2 miles
Have always loved walking my dogs here over the past few yrs, but last time I was the...
Schandler Hall Community Park
3 miles
Great place to hang out and have a cook out with family and friends
Seminole Campground
3 miles
Great place, kept very clean, pet friendly. Nearby eateries, shopping. Will definitel...
Park Model City & RV Sales
3 miles
Love the home I purchased from them. Russ went above and beyond!! Thank you for my ...
Pioneer Village RV Resort
3 miles
Spots are spacious easy to back in. No problems with any hook ups. We only stayed for...
Revolution Cable Park
4 miles
The staff was super friendly and helpful. I had a blast on the water trying out all o...
River Trails Mobile Home Park
5 miles
Only lived here a couple months and never have i hated a place so much. This is not a...
Nalle Grade Park
5 miles
They serve a nice lunch of all their own products with a view of the farmland that is...
Pop Ash Creek Preserve
5 miles
Has hiking/equine trail, during the rainy season the area of the lake doubles but in ...
Spring Woods Mobile Home
5 miles
My brother was renting a place here and the neighbors would call his landlord at a dr...
Powell Creek Preserve
6 miles
No pets allowed. When I searched for pet friendly places it showed up as pet friendly...
Buccaneer Estates
7 miles
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