17 Exciting Things To Do In St. Augustine With Kids

St Augustine is filled with historical significance like Castillo de San Marcos, a 17th-century fortress, and the charming cobblestone streets of the Old City. Plus architectural beauty, a rich cultural scene and beautiful beaches. There are so many amazing things to do in St. Augustine, Florida!



The list is in order from top to bottom of what we recommend you do when visiting. And even if you can’t stay in St. Augustine in the near future but will be heading through that way for another trip we HIGHLY recommend stoping and doing 1 and 2 on your way through the area. Or plan a Northern Florida vacation and make a few stops! 



Also, be sure to check out our Florida Road Trip as this is a stop on the route and keep going south with our Florida Keys Road Trip post!



Things To Do In St Augustine With Kids



Alligator Farm






We had heard the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park was a must visit while in St. Augustine, but we were skeptical. We have been to quite a few zoos and aquariums so we weren’t sure if it would be worth it. Well, IT WAS AWESOME!!



Seriously, it was really cool and we would highly recommend visiting it even if you are just driving through the area. They have TONS of different kinds of alligators and right when you walk in you can see the Albino alligator along with a bunch of baby albino alligators. Then you get to the middle section that is filled with humongous alligators.



They also do feedings throughout the day where you can see the alligators eat huge white rats! It’s like a train wreck – it’s hard to watch, but you can’t look away!



Then you walk through a maze of all different kinds of alligators and crocodiles. It is cool to see and compare all the different kinds. Plus, we got to see them walking around and also swimming.



We haven’t seen these animals in action too often because it seems like they normally just lay around. I think because there were so many our chance of seeing one move was a lot higher.



Then you head back to Alligator Swamp. On the way you walk by some humongous tortoises.



These things were huge and were really awesome to watch walk around. We fed them a few leaves from a tree in their enclosure…shhhh…I don’t think we were supposed to do that, but the tortoises didn’t seem to mind