Located in the heart of fort Mayes downtown. A lot of cute shops, restaurants and bars to visit. A little bit tourist area but that is what fun about it. Check out the summer art walk which happen on Friday.

Nice events take place here on the 1st and 3rd Friday of the month. Art walk and Music Walk respectively. But despite the free speech please tell me why oh why do you allow religious fanatics force heysus on us during these events. Please stop it. Thanks. They were louder than the bands and 4 of them with big signs. This is hardly the place to force religion down on us.

A fun place to kill an afternoon or evening. Lots of happy hours, restaurants, shops, waterfront, and even a free outdoor concert when we went!

This area is filled with restaurants and a few local shops! There is not much to do in the way of museums or galleries, but it’s super cute for a night out or drinks!

Very quiet place, many places of leisure and restaurants, you can walk quietly,

Cute area near the Edison Bridge with lots of shops, restaurants, and the riverfront area.

Beautiful estate with cute house and unique trees plants and trees whole setting was so relaxing and beautiful. The biggest banyan tree in US is located ! If you are in fort Myers do check it out . Edison’s 120 year old piano is located there a young lady was playing beautiful melodies she comes there to maintain the piano.

Edison & Ford Winter Estates is one of my favorite places to visit - any time but especially at Christmas! Not only is the museum fascinating and informative there is nothing quite like getting to see Edison's actual lab or Ford and Edison's winter homes. It truly is a glimpse into the past and personal lives of these men and their families. The grounds are just lovely as well. And if you come at Christmas in the evening for the holiday light tour...it's magical! The homes are decorated so beautifully for Christmas. And all the Christmas lights make the homes even more stunning! If you love history, old homes, architecture, or just that old Florida feel - this is a must see in my opinion.

The River District that's a nice shopping area with a nice selection of stores and it makes you want to drive in and out. It is on a busy route so once you're in to the business district, you can take your time looking for a place to park looking for a place to shop and looking for the store you're looking for. most of the buildings are nicely presentable and has a nice selection of stores this area is quaint and unique and it's a nice place to shop and visit. I'm sure the locals are real pleased with this shopping district. and the prices are in line with most of the shopping centers in the area.

We really enjoyed our day here at the museum. The staff is exceptionally nice and helpful. One of our favorite things was the feeding and petting of sting rays (they don’t sting!). There is a cool globe shaped screen called “Science on a Sphere” that illustrates climate, airliner flights, hurricanes, etc, that is intriguing. We watched 3 short 3D movies that were interesting. There is so much for kids and teenagers. They do not have a cafe, but do have a nice gift shop

Definitely a great area to explore! Great for shopping and discovering very cool boutiques, activities (calusa planetarium, butterfly estates, coastal Dayz & millenial microbreweries...) lots of delicious restaurants to eat out at like Capone's or Ford Garage, also great for having some drinks as there are bars everywhere, the social house called Soho by the locals is very popular, great place! It's also great for partying in the evening, lots of bars and clubs, and if you simply want a cocktail with a great view of the Caloosahatchee river at sunset there are plenty of places such as the firestone skybar & the luminary hotel bar. There is Art night every first Friday of every month and also music night(live music) every third friday of every month, and it's all on first street and around it! Have fun!

Very shabby:( . Most of them are restaurants. Empty on a Sunday and dead on a Monday. You can't even walk on the streets, very deserted. I recommend the Ford Garagem - excellent!!!

My wife and I really enjoyed this museum and grounds. The cost was $25/person. I downloaded the Edison app and went through a self guide tour. The app was impressive, easy to use and made the tour that much better. Considering Henry Ford and Thomas Edison were two of the biggest innovators in US history, it was a wonderful exhibit.

Amazing place! Definitely worth a trip even if it is to simply view this exotic locale. The plants for sale are impeccable, and they have some pots for sale as well. The museum tour is worth the time if you have it. Learned so much about the area that I had no idea about before! Informative and fun for most ages, but especially cool for locals who want to know just a little bit more about our rich Florida history. Recommended highly!

We went to see Clyde Butcher’s photography exhibit on Cuba which was super and had the extra thrill of having this educational museum to ourselves. We very much enjoyed the personalized presentation on the planets by the nice young man in charge of teaching. They have a very good exhibit on the Calusa Native people. The aquarium area is fun and petting the stingrays great for kids and adults. The lady at the registration desk was so very nice and helpful. Check out the section on hurricanes...including the wind tunnel‼️

Really fun place to come especially for the kids. The touch tanks are pretty cool, you can pet sting rays ect. The staff was exceptional and knowledgeable and all around nice. We had a great time here and I would suggest to anyone that has not been here already to come check them out, definitely worth it!

Super cute and quiet town! Cool little shops to see. Some free parking for about 2 hours in the right zone. Get some great pictures 👍🏽

This is the Tower Clock in River District at Downtown Fort Myers, Florida. Located at Edwards St. Just in front of the Caloosahatchee river and Luminary Hotel. This area was just beautifully recently remodeled and then came Ian. I took these pictures a couple days after hurricane Ian hit southwest Florida. This tower watch is still up, strong and gorgeous.

Nice shopping, bar, and restaurant area.

See the place BEFORE its filled with CONDOS and there is NO parking places. Only restaurants and bars, empty till 12 noonish then packed, in season its packed with cars and snowbirds, I do not go downtown after October and Im local.

We did the self-guided tour. We downloaded the app, grabbed our earbuds and headed to the estates. It was a wonderful tour where we could wander at our own pace, read the historical signs along the path and listen to the audio. About 95% of the tourists complied by wearing masks. The landscape and homes were beautiful. The museum was also interesting and included in the tour as well as the lab. It was my first time to see a banyan tree in person; it was incredible!

We took an adventure back to the the time of these two great gentlemen and saw how they lived. Such a beautiful piece of land and history! The houses and grounds were in perfect order and they great like decorations only enhanced the experience. We love looking in the house’s at warm and comfortable place that they were. A wonderful Christmas adventure in Fort Myers!

Good history which I enjoy visiting Fort Myers a most see.

Beautiful area especially during the day. Nice place to walk with families as well as enjoy the sights. Lots of stores to explore and places to eat.

The River District of Fort Myers Fl. Is such a beautiful place to visit. Everyone should come and enjoy the beauty, food and shopping available in Down Town Fort Myers River District.

Awesome place to visit with children. Plus really good food at the snack house. Best BLT ever. Very reasonable entry fee and lovely staff we will definitely go back

It is a great facility if you only plan on going once and don’t have children under 5 their kids zone is shut down the displays haven’t changed in over a year and it was not worth getting a membership. I requested a refund or an extension since for 10 of my 12 month membership offered nothing that I had been told when signing up. I understand covid has made things difficult but if you can’t provide a service you should offer fair I compensation to for what they can’t provide.

I had an incredible time visiting IMAG. I spent the day with family here and can't wait to go back. Great interactive displays and informative guides available to answer all of your questions. Make time in your vacation for this one. #lovefl #visitflorida #IMAG #nicoonthescene Thanks Matt 💃

The River district has really come into its own it's beautiful great restaurants they did a great job reviving it

Gorgeous but we went on a very windy day and didn't get to enjoy everything this beautiful area has to offer!

The actual location doesn’t look like anything in the picture.

Friday night (8/18/23) was fabulous. All the different restaurants to choose from. Streets were closed for entertainment. Love school of rock those kids were phenomenal. The Elvis, jazz player, 80 music & so much more were also entertaining. Was great walking around & exploring.

Beautiful street

Lots of unique shops and restaurants. Very pet friendly. We had a very nice afternoon just walking around taking it all in. The Ford Garage was interesting. An old car on a lift over tge bar and tire sinks with gas nozzle water spouts! Loved it!

Loved it!! You don't have to be a history fan to appreciate and enjoy this wonderful spot. What an amazing pair of men - the things they invented on their own and together - incredible. Very well-kept site, really interesting museum with so many exhibits and a documentary movie. Lovely gardens to walk, you can see both homes from their surrounding porches (you cannot go inside them but you can see very well from outside). Gift shop and flowers, plants for sale there also. Highly recommend for adults, I think kids would get bored too quick.

The tour was very interesting,It’s a very large estate.plenty square feet of property gardens,pool area,kitchens,guesthouse bathrooms, living rooms,dinning rooms& antique vehicles,tools, clothing,interior decorations,inventions,machinery &etc

The last time I visited the Edison Estate, the Ford home was still in private hands. It has since been purchased by the city and is part of the tour. We got there kind of late in the afternoon so ended up not seeing everything out spending as much time on the exhibits as I would have liked. You really need around three hours to walk through at your own pace. There is a "guided" tour through the app that you have to download from Google or Apple depending on your device.

If you enjoy history, scenery and vast gardens, this place has plenty to offer. Lots of beautiful flowers, buildings, some cars, and even a little wildlife. It's an interesting glimpse into the amazing and interesting lives these men led.

Very.nice... never imagined the scope of the exhibits. Plant sale today.

Wow! Don't miss this experience. We spent all day there. Entertaining and interesting.

What a beautiful place. Definitely recommend the audio tour.

We had a great time at the Edison and Ford estates. They had music, food truck, and a beer booth from Millennial Brewing

Learned a lot about a great man in his own time and home. Keep up the great work at preserving this property. Thanks

Great place to visit and a good history lesson on these 2 inventors.

Amazing details, guided and self guided tours available. Pay admission and stay as long as it takes.

Interesting place to visit. Pretty cool to walk where these titans of industry and invention walked.

Excellent total exhibit & experience.

Great family friendly place to spend the day.

Always love my time here.

Fun and interesting trip. Enjoyed the museum and tour guide. We were walking in history.

Great time and historical information. Lots of walking flat areas, but they have lots of benches for sitting when needed.

Wonderful place to see history

Wonderful place to visit. Our tour guide was very nice sharing with us the history of this place.

It was an interesting and informative experience to visit the site and stroll around the grounds as well as look into the different rooms of the main house and maid and secretary's quarters and the guest house as well. All beautifully preserved and restored.

Very interesting

A great stroll on a sunny day. See the gorgeous gardens, the Ford and Edison winter homes in Fort Myers, FL. Check out the informative and surprising large museum, laboratory and giftshop. Dont forget to stop by the crystal clear pool, filled with where still and the caretakers house.

Cool place. So nice to tour

For history buffs, this place is a great way to spend an hour out of your day.

Beautiful grounds, plenty to see and enjoy!

Great slice of history

I would definitely recommend this historical site/museum if you are visiting Fort Meyers! Beautiful well kept grounds and friendly staff. Lots of history at Edison & Ford Winter Estates.

Beautiful home

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A great historical and beautiful location. The museum was amazing. So much history! Need to plan for at least 4hrs to try to see everything.

Interesting history leaned quite a bit. However it was a little pricey for what you get

So incredible! Magical gardens foundation plants homes I couldn’t see if all in one day!must return I got a confederate rose Thrilled ! So many rare and unusual plants ! Wonderful day trip wear comfy shoes !

Best place to buy plants

Southwest Florida must see. Beautiful Homes and gardens. An American Heritage time capsule, tucked nicely in the Downtown Ft. Myers area. Come early and plan to spend the day.

Beautiful!!! Great way to spend a beautiful Florida afternoon.

I wish we would have had time for a guided tour. Everything was so interesting. We listened to the audio program afterward for more information.

Lots to see in the inventor museum and the homes of Edison and Ford which you view from behind open doorways. Take your own tour by loading the Edison app in your phone and going at your own pace or buy tickets for the two timed guided tours

Great place to visit

Nice are to walk around, have dinner and a drink.

i enjoyed the atmosphere and having good company when i visited here

Food, music, ambiance so very fun.

Website doesn't give very much in the way of details for events.

Love it here! The shops are cute and the dinning is awesome. The sunset views are simply breathtaking.

Great atmosphere

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Something for everyone here, plenty of parking

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Came from NJ this place was super cool and Sara was the bestttt! Super informative and awesome!!

Great place to take the kiddos. They had a blast with the various exhibits.

My family had so much fun. Even our 17 year old was playing with the exhibits. The staff was so friendly and even helped with local food and dessert recommendations!

Great little science museum with tons of interactive elements. Kids loved the bed of nails and moon base exhibit. But the interaction with the reptile keeper was the best part. Kelly was our volunteer guide and she was absolutely fantastic.

Awesome place to visit with kids. The 3D shows are great along with the live animal talk. The stingray exhibition was fantastic as well. Well worth the Money. You can easily spend a few hours here! Make sure you bring quarters to feed the turtles and the koi fish in the back pond!

Awesome place lady at the front desk was supper nice supper fun.

I liked the different exhibits, the staff was friendly.

Expensive but cool

Great time with the kiddos!

Great experience and fun for the whole family!

Really fun to go with friends or kids

Place is clean staff is walking around cleaning stations for the kids (and adults) that want to interact with the learning material. Masks are encouraged, but not mandatory.

It's ok.

Terrible

take the kids. Very family feeling with the staff. Nice team they have

It was really fun doing online learning there.

All updated activities and computer driven displays. It doesn't have any of the old "hands on" things the old center had.

Great place for kids and adults. Hands on learning and cool critters.

It was interesting

They have really outdid themselves with revamping the place. new exhibits and outdoor area with lots to do. Keeping the place sanitized.

Need to update some things really nothing for the kids to do at the water activities they need to replace stuff , with the dino dig also nothing to do , video games need way updated .. loved looking at the live animals the most shows not very interesting

nice place to visit.

Had ages 3-13 year olds and they had fun. It's a fair price for the fun we had.

We really enjoyed the exhibits

This place was alright. Not as cool as I had hoped. The aquarium area was neat with the fish. The space zone was pretty big , but it was the same thing- there were like 20 of the space "game". The upstairs had a pretty neat giant globe and they explain all the planets which was cool. But i did,honestly think thst the price of admission was too high for what you got. My 9 year old was satisfied with the visit, so if you have kids that age it is geared alot towards that age

Really cute and informative, Emily gave us such fun tour of reptiles, very knowledgeable!

Because they would tell u stuff about space and history

Very cool place but very disappointing that half the exhibit is closed due to the Coronavirus. Still paid full price. Otherwise I'd gave it 5 stars.

Great place.

Fun for kids

They're doing a great job in cleaning and disinfecting between customers and lots of activities for the kids!

The front desk is so nice there is so many exhibits so many different things to do there's upstairs downstairs and outside 5. out of 5 stars highly recommended

The renovation took several years, but worth the wait. The Sidney Burne Davis building houses a gallery. The gallery rotates shows, music, well done. The new ampitheater at the basin is gorgeous, in front of the Luminary Hotel. In fact, we caught the Pabo Cruise, Rosada Project concert here earlier this month. Great show, venue, fun time. We come to the River District the first Friday of each month for Art Walk, the third Friday of month for Music Walk. Both are well worth the visit, fun time, people. Hurricane Ian took out many of the shops, storefronts, but could not take out the party. Enjoy!

Last year, on vacation, our visit broke up the tourist feel. Kids & teens found some hands on experiences to enhance things already learned. The woman in the Entry helped me find the Perfect gift to send to another grandchild who has enjoyed the gift very much. Good Experience!

Half of the exhibits weren’t working. The animal exhibits were nice. Waste of money.

Really nice place. My grandson loved it. I will go back. They are adding a new attraction too.

Fun for kids of all ages

Really cool area down on the river. Nice shops and good restaurants!

Came here from Royal Palm looking forward to walking around. Could not even get down to area because of construction with of course no signs!

Beautiful scenery! The sunsets can't be beat!

Loved the architecture and variety of shops and restaurants. I took my parents to eat Mediterranean and it was pure bliss.

Newly renovated, downtown atmosphere with many restaurants, bars, brewhouses, coffee shops, shops, art and.. crowded on weekends, during the week less people and quite relaxed.

Adorable!!! We loved the atmosphere and walking around

Lot of fun . grate food, live music , great people, nice shops. Having fun and can’t drive? Stay at luminary hotel it’s right there have a happy safe time here 🌹

This is definitely a cute lil area of Fort Myers that does not seem to have been greatly affected by the hurricane. We stopped in a few shops, had a bite to eat. Loved the old fashioned theater signs and the murals!

Lots of awesome stores & restaurants