So Much To Do in Jax Part One

Visit SO MUCH TO DO IN JAX. Jacks_nvle and the Beaches VisitJacks onville.com THE JACKSONVILLE Z00 & GARDENS Features over 2,400 rare and exotic animals. (Bonus fact! its renowned botanical gardens are home to over 1,000 species of plants.) Adventure Landing has 12 WATERSLIDES 4 "Xtreme" slides, plus 8 in The Pirate's Play Village. The Bryan-Gooding Planetarium is the LARGEST SINGLE-LENS DIGITAL How fast you can drive a go-kart at Autobahn Indoor Speedway: DOME PLANETARIUM 50 MPH in the U.S. MANDARIN MUSEUM SWEET PETE'S makes over at Walter Jones Park has an 10,000 POUNDS OF CARAMEL exhibit on the MAPLE in a year, try their Sea Salt LEAF SHIPWRECK Caramel – it's to die for! with over 100 Civil War artifacts. The former chief historian of the National Park Service, Edwin Bearss, has said the Maple Leaf is the "most important repository of Civil War artifacts ever found." PORCELAIN The Ralph H. and Constance I. Wark Collection of early Meissen porcelain at the CUMMER MUSEUM is one of the three finest and most comprehensive CATTY SHACK RANCH Wildlife Sanctuary has: 24 tigers, 5 lions, 40 BIG CATS 6 cougars, 4 leopards, I bobcat. collections in the world, with more than 700 PIECES. #onlyinjax fact: FRIENDSHIP FOUNTAIN was built in 1965, today the fountain jets shoot up 110 feet in the air along the St. Johns River.