Tampa Florida Attractions

Busch Gardens are on the top of Tampa, Florida Attractions list.  
While Tampa's best amusement park isn't as famous as the ones up the road in Orlando, Busch Gardens in Tampa, Florida, is a quieter amusement park, with lots of excellent roller coasters.  It has an Africa theme, and besides rides includes animals and even a walking safari.  It's a great way to spend a day with kids. 

The Beaches! 

Tampa, like the rest of Florida's Gulf Coast communities, has beautiful white sand beaches, soft to the feet and body.  Beaches dot the whole coastline around the city and are also found deeper in Tampa Bay, where the waters are calmer and more protected than the ones right on the Gulf.  Whether you're looking for a family beach, a singles beach, or a beach with lots of sports and activity, you'll find one in Tampa.

Sports

With the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Devil Rays, and the Lightning, you'll find plenty of action going on regardless of the season. Tampa sports draw visitors from all over central and north Florida.

Recreation

Tampa has great deep sea fishing, and you can charter boats from several different marinas in the city.

But it's also close by the Florida Everglades, making it easy to go into the swamps for a visit to a completely different world. And, of course, there are all the best watersports, from scuba diving to parasailing.

Museums in Tampa

Did you know Tampa has a Salvador Dali museum?  It does, and plenty of other museums besides for art, history, science, and children. Whether your tastes run to antebellum architecture or to Imax shows, local art by the Highwaymen and their students or international art and archaeological treasures, you'll find them here in Tampa.

Unique Tampa Attractions:

Florida Aquarium is one of the top of  Tampa Florida Attractions.

Often called the Tampa Aquarium, the Florida Aquarium is home to 20,000 different aquatic plants and animals and also hosts some truly unique exhibitions. Or you can wander for an afternoon through Hyde Park, a little community so unique in architectural beauty that Disney hoped to duplicate it (he couldn't). Cypress Gardens, a thoroughly unique theme park with an antebellu feel, is also within easy driving distance.