Places to go in Tampa Bay.

Tampa, St. Pete, Clearwater, Sarasota. There are 30 places here.

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Beaches

Clearwater Beach

Clearwater, FL · Tampa Bay

Clearwater's white quartz sand runs right up to a strip of cafes, so you can park once and leave the car until dark. Every evening the free Sunsets at Pier 60 festival fills the…

Beaches

Siesta Key Beach

Sarasota, FL · Tampa Bay

Ninety-nine percent of the sand on Siesta Key Beach, off Sarasota, is quartz, and the beach is at its widest around the public pavilion. Parking in the big county lot is free. If…

Beaches

St. Pete Beach

St. Pete Beach, FL · Tampa Bay

The Army bought the pink Don CeSar on St. Pete Beach for a hospital in 1942, and it didn't reopen as a resort until 1973. For restrooms and showers, use the county beach access…

Beaches

Caladesi Island State Park

Dunedin, FL · Tampa Bay

Caladesi Island is a 20-minute ferry ride from Honeymoon Island State Park in Dunedin, and the boats run on a schedule built around a four-hour stay. You pay to park at Honeymoon…

Lakes & rivers

Myakka River State Park

Sarasota, FL · Tampa Bay$

From the 74-foot tower on the canopy walkway at Myakka River State Park in Sarasota, you look down on the tops of the live oaks and sabal palms. Fourteen miles of the Myakka run…

Beaches

Fort De Soto Park

Tierra Verde, FL · Tampa Bay

Fort De Soto Park covers five keys at the mouth of Tampa Bay, and the coastal guns of its 1898 fort are still mounted in the batteries, which you can walk through. Nearly three…

Breweries

Angry Chair Brewing

Tampa, FL · Tampa Bay

Angry Chair's 24-tap taproom at 4101 N Florida Ave in Tampa specializes in stouts, including barrel-aged imperials and dessert stouts like Fudge Bucket. There are no flights, but…

Breweries

Green Bench Brewing Company

St. Petersburg, FL · Tampa Bay

Green Bench and its barrel room, Webb's City Cellar, share a beer garden on Baum Avenue North in St. Petersburg. Go to Webb's for sour beer: it ferments with a house culture of…

Breweries

Cigar City Brewing

Tampa, FL · Tampa Bay

The brewery that put Tampa on the national craft map, pouring since 2009 from the West Spruce Street warehouse where founder Joey Redner first brewed Jai Alai IPA, the…

Breweries

BarrieHaus Beer Co.

Tampa, FL · Tampa Bay

BarrieHaus, in Ybor City, pours its Czech pilsner Bublina through side-pull faucets imported from the Czech Republic, the way the brewery says it's best had. That beer won gold…

Breweries

Coppertail Brewing Co.

Tampa, FL · Tampa Bay

Coppertail set up its tanks inside a 100-year-old Ybor City building that once canned olives and bottled mayonnaise, and the bar's foot rail is the old train track they unearthed…

Breweries

3 Daughters Brewing

St. Petersburg, FL · Tampa Bay

Mike and Leigh Harting started brewing in 2013 to perfect a beer-battered fish recipe, then asked how many pints it would take to put their three daughters through college. The…

Breweries

Dunedin Brewery

Dunedin, FL · Tampa Bay

Florida's oldest distributing microbrewery has been pouring on Douglas Avenue since 1995, and its string-lit biergarten still fills nightly under a mural that reads Keep Dunedin…

Breweries

Rapp Brewing Company

Seminole, FL · Tampa Bay

Greg Rapp chases the styles most brewers skip, reviving German gose, grodziskie, and other near forgotten recipes that trace back to his great grandfather's brewery near Dresden…

Breweries

Tampa Bay Brewing Company

Tampa, FL · Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Brewing Company has been brewing since 1995, which makes it one of Florida's oldest independent craft breweries, and the Westchase brewhouse is where the beer actually…

Beaches

Anclote Key Preserve State Park

Tarpon Springs, FL · Tampa Bay

The 1887 Anclote Keys Light, a 102-foot cast-iron tower, stands on the south end of Anclote Key, about three miles off Tarpon Springs and reachable only by boat. Tour boats leave…

Beaches

Madeira Beach

Madeira Beach, FL · Tampa Bay

A hurricane opened John's Pass between Madeira Beach and Treasure Island in 1848, and John's Pass Village on the Madeira side has more than 100 businesses. Park in the six-floor…

Lakes & rivers

Hillsborough River State Park

Thonotosassa, FL · Tampa Bay

Florida almost never gets rapids, and here the Hillsborough River drops over a limestone ledge into a frothing Class II run, with a wire suspension footbridge from 1936 still…

Beaches

Honeymoon Island State Park

Dunedin, FL · Tampa Bay

Around 20 osprey nests are active each spring on Honeymoon Island, at the end of the Dunedin Causeway, and bald eagles have nested here since 2009. In 1940 some 50 palm-thatched…

Attractions

Busch Gardens Tampa Bay

Tampa, FL · Tampa Bay$$$

At Busch Gardens in Tampa, a kid who's 48 inches tall can ride Iron Gwazi, which climbs 206 feet and drops at 91 degrees. SheiKra and Montu need 54. Lion & Hyena Ridge puts five…

Attractions

Clearwater Marine Aquarium

Clearwater, FL · Tampa Bay$$

Ten dolphins live at this aquarium off the Clearwater Memorial Causeway, and it's the only place in North America to see rescued rough-toothed dolphins. Hope, rescued in 2010 at…

Attractions

ZooTampa at Lowry Park

Tampa, FL · Tampa Bay$$$

More than 630 rescued manatees have come through ZooTampa's David A. Straz, Jr. Manatee Critical Care Center in Tampa, and most went back to Florida waters. At Manatee Rescue you…

Attractions

The Florida Aquarium

Tampa, FL · Tampa Bay

An 80-foot glass dome covers the wetlands trail at The Florida Aquarium in Tampa, and ring-tailed lemurs look out over it from Lemur Lookout. The river otters on the trail below…

Attractions

Mote Science Education Aquarium

Sarasota, FL · Tampa Bay$$

Two Florida manatees named Buffett and Lou live on the top floor of Mote Science Education Aquarium at University Town Center in Sarasota. The aquarium opened in 2025, and Mote's…

Attractions

The Dali Museum

St. Petersburg, FL · Tampa Bay$$

A free-form geodesic bubble of 1,062 glass triangles, called the Enigma, erupts from an eighteen-inch concrete block built to ride out a hurricane, and it rises about…

Attractions

Henry B. Plant Museum

Tampa, FL · Tampa Bay$

Six silver minarets crowned with crescent moons rise over Tampa's riverfront, the unmistakable signature of the 1891 Tampa Bay Hotel that railroad man Henry Plant built to lure…

Attractions

The Ringling

Sarasota, FL · Tampa Bay$$

John Ringling built his fortune on the circus and spent it on Italy, and you can read that whole story across one bayfront estate. Ca' d'Zan, the Venetian Gothic mansion he and…

Attractions

Chihuly Collection

St. Petersburg, FL · Tampa Bay$$

A 20-foot sculpture marks the door of the Morean Arts Center's Chihuly Collection, at 720 Central Ave in downtown St. Petersburg. Each room inside was designed for the glass it…

Gardens & wildlife

Sunken Gardens

St. Petersburg, FL · Tampa Bay$$

A plumber named George Turner drained a shallow lake here in 1903 and planted what grew into four acres of dense subtropical jungle, sunk well below street level so the city…

Gardens & wildlife

Tampa Electric Manatee Viewing Center

Apollo Beach, FL · Tampa BayFree

Tampa Electric's Manatee Viewing Center sits on the discharge canal of the Big Bend Power Station, where manatees have come for warm water since the early 1970s. When Tampa Bay…