The Pier
PEER OVER THE PIER: It’s the city’s landmark, that inverted pyramid that juts a half mile into
Tampa
Bay from downtown’s shores. The Pier, attracting two million visitors a year, is a five-story marketplace with shops and restaurants, The Pier Aquarium, an observation deck, a bait shop and more.
800 Second Avenue
N.E.,
St. Petersburg, Florida
33701 / 727-821-6443
www.stpetepier.com
Sunken Gardens
STROLL THROUGH THE GARDENS: Everything is in bloom at
Sunken
Gardens , an exotic collection of more than 50,000 tropical plants and flowers. The four-acre botanical attraction features a butterfly garden, wedding lawn, a walk-through aviary with exotic species of birds, and an orchid arbor. This garden is open seven days a week.
1825 4th Street N., St. Petersburg, FL
33704
727-551-3100
www.stpete.org/fun/parks/sunken.htm
Great
Explorations
Museum
KEEP IN TOUCH: At
Great
Explorations
Museum , you don’t just look at the exhibits. You touch them. Move them. Explore them. And, in some cases, you actually become part of them.
1925 Fourth Street North, St. Petersburg, FL
33704
727-821-8992
www.greatexplorations.org
Boyd Hill Nature Preserve
GO WILD: Visit Boyd Hill Nature Preserve, a city-owned 245-acre preserve along the shores of
Lake Maggiore . This award-winning park features nature trails, an environmental studies area, an outdoor classroom, a conference center, a pioneer settlement/living history park, and the newly expanded
Lake Maggiore
Environmental
Education
Center .
1101 Country Club Way S St Petersburg, FL
33705
727-893-7326
www.stpete.org/boyd/index.htm
Ft.
DeSoto
Park
The beach at
Fort
De Soto was ranked as ’s
Best
Beach for 2005. It is the largest county park in the area, with 1,136 acres on five interconnected islands located at the tip of
Pinellas
County in Tierra Verde. It includes more than seven miles of beaches, boat docks, camp grounds, fishing piers, nature trails, a canoe trail, a historic fort, plus much more.
3500 Pinellas Bayway S.,
Tierra Verde, FL
33715 / 727-582-2267
www.pinellascounty.org/park/05_Ft_DeSoto.htm
Baywalk
Dining, Shopping and Movies!
2nd Street & 2nd Avenue N ,Downtown St.Petersburg, 33701
727-895-9277
www.baywalkstpete.com/
Game-On
Laser tag, Inflatable bouncers, Food & drink
201 38th Ave. N. St. Petersburg, FL
33704
(727) 896-4263
Tyrone Square Mall
6901 Tyrone Square, St Petersburg, FL
33710
(727) 347-3889
www.simon.com/mall/default.aspx?ID=135
The
Tampa
Bay Devil Rays
Tropicana Field
One Tropicana Drive, St. Petersburg, FL
33705
888-326-7297
http://tampabay.devilrays.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=tb
