Craft Access
✓
Motorboat ✓
Kayak / Canoe ✓
Jet Ski / PWC ✗
Large 22ft+ Site Details
Conditions change rapidly due to water levels, prop wash, and weather. Always visually inspect before backing down.
RampConcrete, 2 lanes
Water DepthA pedestrian footbridge crosses the entrance to the ramp basin — boats with tall canopies, towers, or antennas need to check clearance before committing (FWC flags it in the state inventory).
DockFloating launch/load dock (north) and launch-and-staging dock (south) — two ramps, one basin
Trailer Parking15 spots · paved
Crowding Photographer season (late winter–spring) and cool-weather crappie weekends fill the basin early; summer weekdays you may have both ramps to yourself.
Plan B — if this lot is full There is no second door to the open lake — Middleton's rentals and guided trips are the no-trailer answer. (The 512 Rec Pad near Fellsmere serves the WMA marshes east of the lake, not the lake.)
FeeNo fee
HoursNot posted
SeasonOpen year-round
RestroomsModern restroom (1)
Not Available Fish cleaning · Fishing pier · Pier
Scout's Notes
Ramp Quirks & Etiquette
Two Ramps, One Basin
The county park at the end of Blue Cypress Lake Road runs a pair of free ramps off a single sheltered basin — floating dock on the north lane, launch-and-staging dock on the south — with flush restrooms and fifteen trailer spots. It's the only public door to the open lake.
Duck the Bridge
A pedestrian footbridge spans the basin entrance — T-tops, towers, and tall antennas need to mind the clearance. Eyeball it before committing, or lower what lowers.
Middleton's Runs Everything
The fish camp beside the ramps is bait shop, guide service, boat rental, airboat and pontoon tours, waterfront cabins, and roughly ten-dollar camping with hot showers — the only services for twenty miles in any direction. Call ahead at (772) 473-1885; hours out here follow the owner, not the mall.
Sunrise Camera Crowd
From late winter into spring the osprey colony turns this basin into a staging area for lenses the size of fence posts — the nests sit at eye level in the shoreline cypress, and the pontoon tours exist to drift them slowly. Anglers and photographers share the ramps amicably; the birds outnumber both.
St. Johns Mile 294
The park is an official put-in on the St. Johns River Paddling Trail — river mile 294, where the river first becomes open water. Through-paddlers head north via the ZigZag Canal toward the Stick Marsh, portaging the S-96C structure — the levees that stop motorboats are a carry-over for a kayak. Middleton's is the trail's listed local contact.
Off the Grid, Genuinely
Cell coverage runs weak to none, the nearest fuel and groceries are back toward Vero Beach, and the wind owns the open lake on breezy days — locals will tell you they've seen the ocean calmer. File the float plan, pack complete, and let that be the point.
Sources: FWC boat-ramp inventory (IR00084OS, IR89198JT), Indian River County, Middleton's Fish Camp, Google Reviews (2013–2026)
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