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Castillo de San Marcos National MonumentPalm trees share the skyline with the 30 foot high Castillo walls along the shoreline.
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Castillo de San Marcos National Monument
Accessibility
The Castillo is not fully accessible to persons in wheelchairs

The Castillo de San Marcos was built for ancient warfare, not for public touring. Unfortunately, the need to preserve the historical and architectural integrity of the fortress limits access to some areas.

Facilities

Free parking is available in the visitor lot for properly identified vehicles. 

The Park can provide a wheelchair for use while visiting the fort.  Rental wheelchairs and other conveyances are available from a nearby concession.

The parking lot and the fort's lower level, which includes the museum rooms, the theater, the bookstore and the restrooms, are wheelchair accessible.

Most of the Park's pedestrian walkways are paved; however, those within the moat and covered way are sand and crushed shell stone. The Gun Deck Level can only be reached by stairs

Interpretive Services

The Park brochure is available in English.

Self-guide tour brochures are available in English, Spanish, German, Japanese, Russian, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, and French.

The Park Orientation Video is in English with closed-captioning.

Bronze Spanish cannons look out over the city of St. Augustine  

Did You Know?
Black, or gun, powder is a mix of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal used as a propellant charge in cannons. Burning rapidly when ignited, it expands 600 times its volume creating pressures that can hurl a cannonball up to 3.5 miles! Castillo de San Marcos National Monument, Florida

Last Updated: March 17, 2009 at 14:15 EST