Boating, Fishing, and Travel Information for Main Street Bridge, St Johns River, FL

Excellent facilities are available in Jacksonville. The municipal marina at Metro Park is on the north side of the river about 1.2 miles west of Commodore Point. Additionally, the city has floating docks at the Jacksonville Landing along the north side of the river between Main Street and Acosta bridges. A city dockmaster may be reached at 904-630-0839. Public restrooms are at Jacksonville Landing and Metro Park. A large illuminated fountain is in a city park on the south bank of the river between the Main Street and Acosta bridges.
There are a number of other modern well-equipped marinas and boatyards in Jacksonville; the major facilities are on the intracoastal waterway, Ortega River and Trout River. Supplies, services, and repairs are available for all types of yachts.
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Jacksonville has expanded by consolidation to include most of Duval County and is now the largest city in the United States in terms of area; its extent along the St. Johns River is from the ocean to the town of Orange Park on the west side of the river and to Julington Creek on the east side.
Deep-draft vessels go as far as just below the Main Street Bridge. Southward of the Jacksonville bridges, commercial traffic is light and consists almost entirely of oil barges. Many pleasure craft navigate this part of the river, usually going only as far as Sanford, though small boats have navigated the river as far as Lake Washington, 188 miles south of Jacksonville.
A Federal project provides for a channel 42 feet deep from the ocean to St. Johns Point, thence 38 feet deep to a point 2.1 miles north of Mathews highway bridge, thence 30 to 38 feet deep to Commodore Point via Terminal Channel. The main channel is maintained at or near project depths.
Seven bridges cross the St. Johns River at downtown Jacksonville. A fixed highway bridge with a clearance of 169 feet (174 feet for 200 feet each side of the bridge centerline) crosses the river just above Blount Island at Dames Point. The fixed Matthews highway bridge, 0.5 mile north of Commodore Point, has a clearance of 152 feet across the main (Terminal) channel and 86 feet at the center of the span across Arlington Channel. At Commodore Point, the Hart suspension bridge has a clearance of 135 feet, with 141 feet at the center. Main Street (Alsop) highway bridge, the first of four bridges at Hendricks Point, has a vertical-lift span with clearances of 40 feet down and 135 feet up; the second, Acosta highway bridge, 0.3 mile upstream from the Main Street bridge, has a fixed span with a clearance of 75 feet; the third, the railroad bridge adjacent to the Acosta bridge, has a bascule span with a clearance of 5 feet; the fourth, the Fuller Warren highway bridge, has a fixed span with a clearance of 75 feet at the center. The bridgetenders at Hendricks Point monitor VHF-FM channel 16 and work on channel 17; call sign, Main Street (Alsop) WHV-528. The bridgetender of the FEC bridge monitors VHF-FM channel 16 and works on channel 13; call sign, KXR-936.