Three Favorite Places in Jacksonville?

[KenFSU]

It could a park, a building, a restaurant, a landmark, a museum, anywhere.

Curious as to what everyone thinks, as there really are like a thousand choices.

Mine are:

1) Memorial Park in Riverside
2) The fourth floor balcony at the Main Library
3) The Landing at Christmas time

[copperfiend]

1. Everbank Field on a Sunday gameday
2. The Ortega River Bridge on San Juan
3. My house

[dougskiles]

1.
2.
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[tufsu1]

the 3rd one is the zoo yes?

[KenFSU]

Tough to tell for certain, but my first guess was the Cummer.

[thelakelander]

For me, in no particular order:

- Jacksonville Farmer's Market (cultural diversity)

- Memorial Park (when in the space, it feels like you're in a more lively urban city)

- Adams Street (historic building density)

[Timkin]

-PS #4  ( I have always loved this building and everyone knows  I want so badly to help restore it  )

-My Grandparent's Former Home in Venetia  ( Some of my fondest childhood memories , days spent,  family time together, Holidays  were spent there.  I am so glad it was spared from demolition and it is beautiful today)


-My Home AKA the dome@1620...as shown in my Avatar pic ... ( I like unusual and the home fits the tab perfectly.)  This one also had a very close call with demolition and with a lot of money spent and many months of hard work , we brought it back to life)

[Keith-N-Jax]

The one at the Zoo is realy nice. I would go with Friendship Fountain, the drive through Ortgea/Riverside, and the river front view of the bridges.

[Noone]

1. Brand new favorite spot. Brooklyn, Stonewall and Chelsea St at the banks of McCoys Creek which leads under the Times Union and into our St. Johns River our American Heritage River a Federal Initiative.

2. Sandy banks under Duval St on Hogans creek next to the old St. Lukes Hospital and casket company that leads past the Maxwell House Plant into the St. Johns River our American Heritage River and into a vibrant Downtown Destination on our Waterway.

3. My home.

[jerry cornwell]

Cork Arts District
Everbank on Jag Day
My home
plus a zillion other places i cant cram on the post
I love Jacksonville!

[dougskiles]

the 3rd one is the zoo yes?

Correct.  Gardens at Trout River Plaza to be specific.

http://www.jacksonvillezoo.org/botanical/the_gardens_at_trout_river_plaza/

I had the pleasure recently to get to know Bob Chabot, the horticultural director at the zoo.  You will get to see his brilliance soon with our new bioswale project at San Marco Library.

[CG7]

1) Riverside Avondale
2) Fort George Inlet (in a kayak)
3) zoo

[ben says]

1) the food scene (13 gypsies, orsay, town, olio, indochine, chomp chomp, taverna, french pantry, et al)

2) riverside/avondale

3) atlantic beach neighborhood

[Miss Fixit]

In no particular order:

The Cummer Gardens

The Florida Theatre

Confederate Park

Also competing for the top three were the Jacksonville Arboretum, the riverfront bulkhead on Laverne Street in San Marco, Avondale's pocket parks and the bar at Orsay.

[Tacachale]

1. The Timucuan Preserve, especially little Talbot Island. The parks, beaches and preserves are far and away the best part of living in jax.

2. The Tacachale Birthplace National Monument inNeptune Beach. My mother has lived there since the 60s and it's been in the family since the 1940s.

3. Friendship Fountain. Such a cool setting right in our downtown.