Sebastian Boat Ramps: Where to Launch, Hours and Fees

Sebastian has two city boat ramps, both on Indian River Drive: the Main Street ramp at 1300 Indian River Drive and the dual concrete Yacht Club ramp at 820 Indian River Drive (City of Sebastian).

Both city ramps launch straight into the Indian River Lagoon, the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway stretch that faces downtown Sebastian. The City of Sebastian Parks and Recreation Department lists landscape maintenance of 17 parks, 2 boat ramps and the Indian River Drive Riverfront walkway among its duties, and answers questions at 772-228-7054 (Parks and Recreation).

Outside the city limits, Indian River County runs the trailer ramps most Sebastian boaters use for other water: two on the St. Sebastian River along Roseland Road and one on the Wabasso Causeway. Florida State Parks operates a launch with four ramps on the south side of Sebastian Inlet. The table compares them.

The Main Street Boat Ramp sits where Main Street meets Indian River Drive, just east of U.S. Highway 1, with trailer parking, restrooms and a fishing pier in the Sebastian Waterfront District (City of Sebastian).

The city lists the park at 1300 Indian River Drive and pitches it to boaters bound for the Indian River, Sebastian Inlet and the Atlantic, which lie a short run across the Intracoastal from the ramp. Heritage Circle, a small park across the street from the Sebastian Chamber of Commerce, is a place to take in river views and learn about Sebastian history and the Hardee Oak.

The ramp area has been repaired with redevelopment money before. The Sebastian Community Redevelopment Agency project list includes a Main Street to Indian River Drive street realignment with boat ramp repair and boat and car parking, plus information boards at the Main Street Boat Ramp Park (CRA projects). The CRA page gives no year for that repair, so its age is not stated here.

Trailer parking for the Yacht Club ramp is mostly across Indian River Drive in the city lot at Riverview Park, with accessible truck and trailer spaces at the ramp itself (City of Sebastian).

The Yacht Club is one of two boat ramp facilities the City of Sebastian provides. Its dual concrete ramp at 820 Indian River Drive, just north of Riverview Park, gives quick access across the waterway to Sebastian Inlet and the Atlantic. The site also has a fishing pier, boat dock areas and a restroom, and the Yacht Club building on the same site is used for meetings and events.

Because the main trailer lot is at Riverview Park, a Yacht Club launch usually means parking at the park and crossing Indian River Drive on foot back to the boat. The CRA project list records Yacht Club improvements and construction of the Yacht Club finger pier (CRA projects).

Dale Wimbrow Park at 11805 Roseland Road and Donald MacDonald Park at 12315 Roseland Road are the two Indian River County trailer ramps on the St. Sebastian River (Indian River County).

Dale Wimbrow Park lists a boat launch with 7 feet of water at the end of the ramp, 8 boat trailer parking spaces, a large fenced playground and an event pavilion that rents for $65 a day. It opens daily at 7:30 a.m. and closes at sunset, and county rules bar pets, alcohol, camping and overnight parking. Questions go to Donald MacDonald Park at 772-589-0087 or the county Parks Division at 772-226-1875.

Nearby, Donald MacDonald Park and Campground has a boat launch, an observation boardwalk and 13 boat trailer parking spaces, and its rules close the ramp at sunset even though campers stay overnight. Both county pages give the same 37.19-acre park size, which looks like a copy carried from one listing to the other, so the acreage is not repeated here for Dale Wimbrow.

Paddlers have a third choice. The Sebastian Canoe Launch at 9800 Canoe Launch Cove, on the South Prong, has 8 parking spaces, new paved ADA parking and a dock, opens 7 a.m. to sunset, and the county suggests three to four hours for the paddle north to Donald MacDonald Park, Dale Wimbrow Park or the lagoon. St. Sebastian River Preserve State Park has no ramp of its own and points boaters to the Roseland Road ramps (Florida State Parks).

The Sebastian Inlet State Park launch costs $4 plus tax on top of the $8 per vehicle park admission, and its four ramps on the south side of the inlet open daily from 8 a.m. to sunset (Florida State Parks).

The park lists 31 boat trailer spaces at the launch and a separate sandy, gently sloping non-motorized launch at Coconut Point for canoes, kayaks and sailboats. From the inlet, boaters reach the Indian River Lagoon, the Intracoastal Waterway, the Sebastian River and the Atlantic, and Florida State Parks places the Gulf Stream about 25 to 30 miles east of Sebastian Inlet.

Construction is the big change for 2026 and beyond. Florida State Parks warns that work on the Sebastian Inlet bridge along Jimmy Buffett Memorial Highway was scheduled to begin in May 2026, bringing traffic congestion and possible campground entrance changes, and that beach access from the south side is unavailable (Sebastian Inlet State Park). The Sebastian Inlet District reports that the Florida Department of Transportation began mobilizing for the bridge replacement on June 1, 2026. Since November 12, 2025 the South Ranger Station keeps standard 8 a.m. to sunset hours, so after-hours entry on the south side is limited to registered campers and to annual entrance pass holders who also carry an after-hours permit.

The Sebastian Inlet District maintains the 3,120-foot channel from Sebastian Inlet to the Intracoastal Waterway and the markers along it, while boat launches inside the state park are directed by the Florida Park Service (Sebastian Inlet District).

The Sebastian Inlet District says the channel was designed to be at least 150 feet wide and 9 feet deep, that some areas were dredged to 12 feet in the latest maintenance project, and that it posts semi-annual survey maps as a navigation aid. It installed the channel markers in 2007 and asks boaters to report missing or downed markers on the inlet channel to (321) 724-5175; markers on the Intracoastal itself belong to the U.S. Coast Guard.

For the Wabasso side of the lagoon, Wabasso Causeway Park keeps its ramp on the south-east lobe of the causeway with 6 feet of water at its end and hours of 7 a.m. to sunset. Farther south, Round Island Riverside Park at 2200 South Highway A1A has two ramps open 24 hours and 12 trailer spaces, and its boat ramp page states that the ramp is open 24 hours.