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Home of Major League Baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays and the Arena Football League’s Tampa Bay Storm, Tropicana Field’s 1.1 million square feet includes unique design features and fan amenities found nowhere else in the Major Leagues. If you don’t want to take in a professional baseball or arena football game, or you are on Anna Maria Island during the sports’ off-season, you can partake in one of behind-the-scenes tours that...

Explore the secrets of the sea through touch pools, viewable-working labs and high-tech interactive exhibits that showcase the world-renowned research of Mote Marine Laboratory. See sharks, manatees and sea turtles, along with more than 100 other species of marine life. The Laboratory has been a leader in marine research since it was founded in 1955. Mote Aquarium is proud to be accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA)...

Located in Bradenton, Florida, approximately 10 miles from Anna Maria, is G.T. Bray Park and Recreation Center. It is Manatee County’s center hub for recreational activities and features just about everything for which an active person hopes. The park is open from sunrise to 11:00 p.m. and is equipped with multiple soccer, baseball and softball fields; basketball, racquetball and tennis courts; and horseshoe pitching platforms. In addition, the park offers a...

Recognized as the #1 zoo in the United States by Parents magazine (2009) and Child magazine (2004), Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo features more than 1,000 animals on nearly 60 acres of natural habitats, splash ground water play areas, wild rides, educational shows and interactive opportunities to get closer to wildlife. The Zoo’s Manatee and Aquatic Center, home to the David A. Straz, Jr. Manatee Hospital, expands the traditional boundaries of a...

Big Cat Rescue is the largest accredited sanctuary in the world dedicated entirely to abused and abandoned big cats. The sanctuary, which began rescuing exotic cats in 1992, is home to over 100 lions, tigers, bobcats, cougars and other species most of whom have been abandoned, abused, orphaned, saved from being turned into fur coats, or retired from performing acts. In all, the sanctuary has 14 species of cats, many of whom...

Right next to Busch Gardens is a full 30-acre Florida Keys themed water park located conveniently in Tampa. Jump into a tide wave of rides full of slides, tubes, rapids, and corkscrews. Or you can chill out and relax in your own private cabana, or grab a tube and float lazily down a slow moving stream. Catch a wave in the Endless Surf 17,000 square foot wave pool that every...

Experience underwater viewing windows, dolphin pools, hands-on stingray tank, and other one-of-a-kind marine animal homes. Meet Winter, the star of the Hollywood blockbuster movie, “Dolphin Tale”! See turtles, sharks, otters and fish all swimming and playing in their homes throughout the aquarium. Included in the admission to Clearwater Marine Aquarium is the behind-the-scenes exhibit, Winter’s Dolphin Tale Adventure. See rebuilt scenes and actual props from the movie. The kids will...

Tampa Bay’s Africa Theme Park! Bring out your roller coaster enthusiasts and challenge yourself to the six major roller coasters found at Busch Gardens: Kumba, Cheetah Hunt, Montu, Gwazi, SheiKra, and Scorpion. Get soaked on three different water rides, Congo River Rapids, Stanley Falls, and Tanganyika Tidal Wave. Get close up with the Serengeti and see lions, rhinos, zebras, meerkats, elephants, giraffes, alligators and more! Wander into Jungala and get...

Get closer to all your favorite sea creatures at The Florida Aquarium. See cownose rays, sand tiger sharks, sea dragons, green sea turtles, moray eels, giant pacific octopus, and thousands of other unforgettable creatures. Touch real stingrays and bamboo sharks in the 5,000 gallon Touch Tank. You can also touch sea stars, crustaceans, urchins and mollusks in the No Bone Zone touch tank. Enter the wetlands and get within inches...

The South Florida Museum is the largest natural and cultural museum on Florida’s Gulf Coast. See dramatic dioramas, exciting exhibits, fossil evidence of Florida’s earliest marine and mammal life, and the world renowned collection of prehistoric and early post-contact archaeological artifacts from Montague Tallant.