Places you should not miss on a day trip from Marco Island to Fort Myers include the following:
- If your favorite thing about vacation is dining out and shopping, then you cannot miss Fort Myers’ Riverside District. An area filled with lovely views, there is always something to do from visiting all of the fun and creative restaurant experiences to seeing amazing art exhibits and local shops to admiring the architecture to checking out live music and dancing.
- Fort Myers is home to some great nature experiences for those looking to enjoy and learn more about Floridian wildlife including Lakes Regional Park, Six Mile Slough Preserve, Butterfly Estates, and Manatee Park. There are also boat tours in the area like the Everglades Day Safari and Magic Wind Adventure Sailing as well as fishing charters such as Sanibel Offshore Fishing Charters and Endless Summer Charters.
- If you are an American history buff, then you will certainly enjoy the Edison & Ford Winter Estates. The former winter getaways of inventors Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, the twenty-one acre grounds have now been converted into a museum and botanical gardens, complete with a restaurant for hungry visitors.
- For any baseball fans out there, Fort Myers is home to the Century Link Sports Complex and Hammond Stadium as well as JetBlue Park where the Minnesota Twins and Boston Red Sox hold their spring training camps respectively.
