Fort Hamer Park
A compact riverside park, about 7.3 acres, sitting directly on the Manatee River with a boat ramp, a pavilion and real water access. It is also home to Manatee County's rowing programme, so on a good morning you will watch shells slice across water most visitors never knew was here.
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The public ramp on the Upper Manatee River State Canoe Trail, plus two reservable pavilions beside the rowing facility.
The historic fort stood across the river from the public ramp you use now.
A small riverside lot under the Fort Hamer Bridge — trailers, a kayak dock, and a youth-rowing boathouse. You came to put a boat on the Manatee, not to find Gulf sand.
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