PALM BAY

Palm Bay is perfectly located on Florida's east central coast, midway between Jacksonville and Miami. Housing styles include a wide variety of single-family homes, apartments, condominiums, town homes and gated subdivisions. Eastern State College Brevard, Palm Bay Campus prides itself on providing a center for baccalaureate and graduate education through the offerings of the University of Central Florida, Webster University and Barry University. Recreational activities include 29 city parks which include paintball and skateboarding, an aquatic center, a 200-acre regional park, and Turkey Creek Sanctuary, a Kayakers delight.

The most rural area is in the Southwest, containing an area called The Compound. This area is home to Bombardier Recreational Products. 

During the early 1990s, Palm Bay Regional Park, a soccer and athletic complex in the Western part of

the city, was constructed. It is the largest of a citywide system of parks and recreation areas. The Turkey Creek Sanctuary is a small nature reserve in the northeast part of the city.

The Timucuan Indians, attracted to the mouth of Turkey Creek at the Indian River by freshwater springs, fish, oysters, and wildlife, are thought to have been the first inhabitants in the Palm Bay area.