The San Marco Quest takes you along one of St. Augustine’s most historic corridors — San Marco Avenue — where centuries of Spanish colonial history, Victorian-era legends, and ancient natural wonder line the route from downtown to the city’s northern frontier. This is the road the Spanish walked when they first came ashore in 1565, and it has been continuously traveled ever since.

Your journey begins at the Old Spanish Trail Zero Milestone, the official starting point of the transcontinental highway that once connected St. Augustine to San Diego, and follows San Marco north past Ripley’s Castle Warden, a 500-year-old live oak, an authentic 1891 Victorian jail, the great bronze statue of the city’s founder, the soaring 208-foot Great Cross, America’s oldest Marian shrine, and Ponce de León’s legendary landing site — ending at the Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park where it all began.