De Soto National Memorial
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8300 Desoto Memorial Hwy ↗Explore the story of Hernando de Soto’s 1539 landing in Tampa Bay and the Indigenous communities that resisted his expedition. This Bradenton memorial puts the history of the expedition and the people whose homelands it entered at the center of a visit.
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A short nature trail loops through mangrove tunnels and along the river where the expedition landed — shady, flat, and genuinely pretty at high tide.
Read the full De Soto National Memorial: Bradenton's Free National Park Site →Hours
Visitor area daily 9am–4:45pm; grounds dawn–dusk (gate closes 5pm); free
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