St Pete Mural Tour: A Golf Cart Guide to 600 Murals
Downtown St. Pete has more than 600 murals, and most visitors photograph the same four of them. That is partly a routing problem. The good walls are spread across seven distinct mural districts, some of them a genuine drive apart, and the density changes block to block.
So here is a St Pete Mural Tour we would actually run: where to start, who painted what, and how far west it is worth going.
Start in the 300 to 700 blocks, where the density is
If you only have an hour, spend it in the Central Arts District, which runs along Central Avenue roughly from 3rd Street to 7th Street. More than 30 murals sit in that stretch. You can cover it slowly and still not repeat yourself.
This is the part of the tour where a cart earns itself immediately. The murals are too spread out to be a comfortable walk in August, and just close enough together that moving a car five times is absurd. You want to travel one block, stop, look up, and keep going.
The one everyone photographs
The great white shark at 687 Central Avenue is the wall people mean when they say they have seen the St. Pete murals. It is by Shark Toof, painted for the 2015 SHINE Mural Festival, and it is roughly 55 feet wide and 33 feet high on a wall of deep red. The scale is the thing. Photos of it never quite land, because you cannot get far enough back on foot to fit it in the frame.
One practical note, since it comes up: that address belongs to the Floridian Social, which as of 2026 runs primarily as a private events venue rather than a place you can wander into for a drink. Come for the wall, not the room.
The stops we would actually make
Working east to west through the Central Arts District, these are the ones worth stopping the cart for, all attributed per the city tourism office's own mural list:
Time to Think, Derek Donnelly and Sebastian Coolidge, 501 Central Avenue. Two of the most prolific names in local muralism, working together.
Faces, BASK, 648 Central Avenue. BASK has been part of this scene since well before it was a scene.
Pacific Counter, Chad Mize, 660 Central Avenue. Mize's work is probably the most immediately recognizable visual language in the city.
You Are My Sunshine, Jeffrey Sincich and Josh Stover, 719 Central Avenue.
Eye of the Storm, Ricky Watts, 628 1st Avenue North, from 2015.
365 Million Things to Do, Derek Donnelly, 54 7th Street North.
Then turn down to 100 7th Street South for Emily Ding's untitled fawn, painted during the 2021 SHINE festival. It is a sleeping deer wrapped in white blossoms, and it is quieter than almost everything else on this list. If you are only making one detour off Central, make it this one. Her signature is right there in the lower corner of the wall.
Going west is a real trip, not a detour
The Grand Central District has excellent work: Michael Reeder's Ego & Identity at 1701 Central Avenue from 2016, Dasic Fernandez's Multicolored Lady at 1720 Central, the Vitale Bros.' The Cool Kids at 2063 Central from 2015, and a Case Maclaim piece at 2461 Central from 2021.
Be honest with yourself about the distance, though. Those addresses run from roughly 17th Street out past 24th, which is a couple of miles west of Beach Drive. That is a legitimate leg of a day, not something you tack on at the end. Plan it as its own stretch, or save it for a second visit.
If you can time it, come in November
SHINE is in its 12th year, running November 8 to 17, 2026, produced by the St. Petersburg Arts Alliance. It is the reason a lot of these walls exist in the first place, including both the Shark Toof and the Emily Ding pieces.
Visiting during the festival means watching murals get made rather than just looking at finished ones, with artists on lifts and whole blocks half-painted. It also means the streets are busier and some blocks are partly closed, which is exactly the situation where a small vehicle beats a large one.
Why a cart suits this particular day
A mural tour is the clearest case we have for the cart, and it is not really about convenience. It is that the right speed for looking at walls is about 12 miles an hour with nothing between you and the building.
In a car you miss them, because you are watching the road and the murals are above your eye line. On foot you see maybe a third of what is out there before the heat wins. Our six passenger cart is $99 for eight hours or per consecutive day with free delivery and pickup, and it is street legal on roads posted 35 mph or lower, which covers Central Avenue for the entire stretch that matters here.
If you are fitting murals into a broader downtown day, our top things to do in St. Pete guide is the wider template, and the 24 hours in downtown St. Pete route folds a few of these blocks into a full day.
One last thing. Murals are not permanent. Walls get repainted, buildings change hands, and festivals cover old work with new. Everything here was checked against the city tourism office's mural lists in September 2026, but if you are reading this much later, treat it as a strong starting route rather than a guarantee.
Frequently asked questions
How many murals are in St. Pete?
More than 600 citywide, organized by the local tourism office into seven mural districts: Central Arts, Deuces Live, EDGE, Grand Central, MLK North, Warehouse Arts, and Waterfront Museum.
Where are most of the downtown murals?
The Central Arts District, along Central Avenue between roughly 3rd and 7th Streets, has the highest concentration, with more than 30 murals in that short stretch.
Who painted the big shark mural in St. Pete?
Shark Toof, during the 2015 SHINE Mural Festival. It is at 687 Central Avenue and runs about 55 feet wide by 33 feet high.
When is the SHINE Mural Festival in 2026?
November 8 to 17, 2026, its 12th year, produced by the St. Petersburg Arts Alliance.
Can I see the murals by golf cart?
Yes, and it is one of the better uses for one. The Central Arts District murals sit along streets posted at or below 35 mph, which is where a street legal cart is allowed to operate.
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