Community & Tourism

A rural wonderland, Fellsmere offers a surprising number of eco-friendly and unique travel experiences. It’s home to Blue Cypress Lake, one of the world’s largest osprey nesting sites, and boasts one of the top fishing spot in the world for bass and crappie.

The St. Sebastian River Preserve State Park offers 60 miles of picturesque, untouched natural beauty. The park protects the West Indian manatee, red-cockaded woodpecker and Florida scrub jay. Music lovers will enjoy some of the best bluegrass bands in the state hosted at Marsh Landing Restaurant, an iconic landmark in its own right. Fellsmere has been proclaimed Frog Leg Capital of the World and the Frog Leg Festival holds two Guinness Book World Records, for the most frog legs served in the course of one business day and the largest frog leg festival in the world.

Fellsmere may be a small town, but you'll find it's packed with historical landmarks waiting to discovered. It's a city of firsts - first city south of the Mason-Dixon line after the reconstruction to allow women the vote as well as having the first library, the Marian Fell Library, which you can still visit today. The first public school, railroad depot and hotel in Indian River County were also built in Fellsmere.