Updated: April 6, 2024

Looking for things to do in Sarasota?  You have come to the right place. Investigate Sarasota & Bradenton’s many attractions and activities. From marine life destinations, storied historic estates and local museums, to parasailing, boating, fishing, kayaking as well as other eco-tourism activities, the amusing and educational experiences awaiting them are loved by families.

Sarasota Mansion -Ringling Museum

The Ringling of the renowned Ringling Brothers Show produced this memorial that is simply fantastic. It’s an attractive museum mulit-acre property. It’s been thought to be Florida’s state State Art Museum. It stuffed towards the top with invaluable points and is really a incredible location The property has three major components First, an Art gallery with 21 galleries of Western paintings, Cypriot antiquities, Asian Artwork, National paintings, and modern art. [gmw thumb_width=”250″ thumb_height=”250″ id=”10″] Second, the recently renovated D? d’Zan (“Home of John”). Spectacular mansion done in 1913 – The property it is an excellent location for a picnic and itself rests about the Sarasota Bay. Make sure to have a walk through the grounds such as the Rosegarden Third, the circus museum shows outfits, wagons, efficiency gear, along with other items chronicling the real history of the Show. Enjoyable for the kids, although for everybody will like it. Outdoor Things to do in Sarasota

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens

The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens is both lush and beautiful. 

A tropical, urban retreat featuring a Sarasota Bay as well as unparalleled horticulture displays -front setting, Marie Selby Botanical Gardens is a world class centre for research, instruction and conservation.

Relax amidst nature’s attractiveness and enable the scene of botanical ecstasy that is unparalleled to carry you apart.

The plant group is quite impressive . It was the private garden of Marie Selby who jointly with her spouse lived from 1920 to 1971 in the house. She had a love of nature and valued her lovely atmosphere . She really formed the primary garden club in Sarasota. The contents of Marie Selby’s will disclosed her wish to leave her property to the city as a botanical garden “for the enjoyment of the public.”

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The Gardens keeps a plant group numbering more than 20,000 greenhouse plants, plus thousands more in the outside gardens. It’s well know for its orchad range that is incredibe.

Sarasota Jungle Gardens

An excellent garden with a lot of small animal and critter shows. You can easily spent a wonderful day here.

Animal shows, incude:

Birds of Prey display and show features the Black Vulture, Red Tail Hawk and Great Horned Owl as well as avian predators.

Reptiles of The Planet display

Things and critters show.

Good stop if your a zoo aficionado.

International Reptile Encounter Show 

Birds of The Rainforest Show learn habitats and their habits with a comparison of animal IQ’s to human IQ’s.

Sarasota Farmers Market

This is one of the best things to do in Sarasota in my opinion.

Dating back to 1979,and situated smack dab within the center of Sarasota, the Sarasota Farmer’s Market provides the services and products of nearby producers and artists. A foodie heaven that is genuine, with more than 5, 000 feet of crops produce along with a marketplace which includes this hip producers industry, more than 70 suppliers includes a pleasant and clean feel that simply shouts California.

A few of the accessible items in the producers industry contain some real fruits art, apparel, jewelry, dramas, herbs, breads pastries, fish, caffeine, live flowers, cut blooms and, obviously and greens. Although there are several real producers in the marketplace, as outlined in a current media account named “Plantation to Myth,” make sure to ask whether you are purchasing produce from the player, or from the merchant who might merely be purchasing wholesale produce rejected by supermarkets, and just promoting greens of no better-quality or quality than you can purchase in the local supermarket.

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The roads are closed to vehicles as well as the front of the marketplace is against a substantial seashell fountain. Authorities there make it really simple for pedestrians, strollers, and dogs to roam on the marketplace. There’s normally at least one group playing live music plus recorded music by the end of among the side streets where people regularly dance. Enjoy such culinary delights as Hungarian pastries, crepes, broiled mahi mahi sandwiches, and BBQ sandwiches. Among the best stops is the biscuit stand which shows lots of big biscuits on the counters of it’s. Amble across the nearby stores, when you are done looking in the farmers market.

The Saturday market is located on Lemon Avenue at the intersection of Main Street and on State Street near the new State Street Garage.

South Lido Park

This park located on the north side of South Lido Beach, offers a nature trail, a canoe/kayak launch, a self-guided canoe/kayak trail, and picnic areas. You can park free and go a mile over the intake that separates Lido over the Beach from Siesta Key, after which into a cove with fantastic sights of Siesta Key and Chicken Key. There’s even fishing there.

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This beautiful park a/k/a Ted Sperling Park has been renovated through the addition of the beautifully-intended restroom facility (designed by a local rising architect). The park is hidden away at the south end-of Lido Beach and is an excellent place to hold a family picnic.  You can lay on the beach or at a picnic table ignoring the water. Parking is enough to simply take your gear for grills and the platforms.

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