4269 Turtle Mound
Melbourne, Florida
A Private Setting in Windover Farms
Set on one wooded acre against a protected natural backdrop, the residence offers an uncommon combination of privacy, space, and access to the best of Melbourne and Florida’s Space Coast.
A Rare Melbourne Homesite
Approximately one acre in an established deed-restricted Melbourne community is increasingly difficult to find—particularly when the homesite also backs directly to a substantial natural preserve. Here, the scale of the property, wooded setting, and surrounding open land create a degree of privacy and separation that is immediately apparent from above.
The aerial also shows how closely the property is connected to the natural amenities surrounding Windover Farms, including access toward the Brevard Linear Park at the end of Turtle Mound Road.
Windover Farms - Community & HOA
Established Community: Windover Farms of Melbourne is an established deed-restricted community designed around large homesites, mature vegetation, preserved natural areas, and a low-density residential character.
Community Amenities: Residents have access to maintained common areas that include eight lakes, docks, greenways, a pavilion, tennis and racquetball courts, a sports field, nature trails, an exercise trail, playground, and other recreational spaces.
Natural Setting: The community’s governing documents specifically recognize and protect environmentally sensitive areas, including wetlands and protected wildlife habitat, reinforcing the wooded character that defines much of Windover Farms.
Architectural Review: The Architectural Review Committee provides uniform review of proposed improvements and construction, with emphasis on soundness, exterior design, placement, topography, and harmonious integration within the community.
Community Stewardship: The HOA’s responsibilities include maintaining property values, community aesthetics, common areas, safety, and quality of life throughout Windover Farms, including maintenance of lakes, docks, swales, greenways, recreational facilities, nature trails, perimeter fencing, and other shared spaces
Community Involvement: Volunteer committees support architectural review, compliance, budgeting, maintenance, safety, social activities, and neighborhood engagement.
Nine Houses from the Brevard Zoo Linear Park
Trail Access: The entrance to the Brevard Linear Park is located at the end of Turtle Mound Road, only nine homes from the residence—making the trail feel like a natural extension of the neighborhood.
3.1-Mile Trail: The Linear Park extends approximately 3.1 miles and combines paved pathways with elevated boardwalks, creating an easy route for walking, running, and bicycling through preserved natural surroundings.
Natural Florida: Along the route, the trail passes through wetlands, oak hammocks, and other native habitats, with frequent benches that invite walkers and cyclists to stop and take in the landscape.
A Trail with a Story: Interpretive signs along the route identify native plants and wildlife and explain aspects of the area’s natural and prehistoric history. Additional signage along the trail also recounts the history of the land and the Native peoples who once inhabited the surrounding region.
Connection to Brevard Zoo: The route continues toward Brevard Zoo, creating the unusual opportunity to leave home on foot or bicycle and travel through preserved natural surroundings toward one of the Space Coast’s signature attractions.
Brevard Zoo & Outdoor Recreation
Brevard Zoo: Located nearby in Melbourne, Brevard Zoo is a nationally recognized nonprofit conservation organization with approximately 700 animals representing 170 species from the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australia.
More Than a Traditional Zoo: Experiences extend well beyond animal exhibits, with opportunities to kayak through animal habitats, explore the tree canopy, ride the zoo train, participate in animal encounters, and enjoy immersive natural environments.
Conservation & Education: Brevard Zoo is deeply involved in wildlife conservation and environmental education, including local restoration work within the Indian River Lagoon ecosystem.
Outdoor Lifestyle: Beyond the zoo, Brevard County offers an extensive network of parks, conservation lands, beaches, waterways, nature centers, trails, and recreational facilities—making outdoor activity part of everyday life rather than an occasional excursion.
Arts, Culture & Entertainment
King Center for the Performing Arts: Located approximately 2.2 miles from the residence, the King Center brings major touring concerts, theatrical productions, comedy, dance, family programming, and other live performances to Melbourne.
Close to Home: Having a major performing-arts venue only minutes away makes dinner-and-a-show evenings remarkably convenient while still returning home to the privacy and wooded setting of Windover Farms.
Melbourne Arts & Culture: The surrounding Melbourne area also offers galleries, community arts programming, live music, festivals, historic districts, local restaurants, and year-round cultural events.
Central Florida Access: For larger touring productions, professional sports, major concerts, and additional entertainment, Orlando remains readily accessible while the home retains the lifestyle advantages of Florida’s Atlantic coast.
Indian River Lagoon & Beaches
Indian River Lagoon: Melbourne sits along the Indian River Lagoon, one of North America’s most biologically diverse estuaries, with a mosaic of mangrove forests, seagrass beds, salt marshes, oyster reefs, and tidal flats.
Mangrove Ecosystem: Red, black, and white mangroves line portions of the lagoon, helping stabilize shorelines while providing important habitat for fish, birds, and other wildlife.
Bioluminescence: During warmer months, portions of the Indian River Lagoon can glow with natural bioluminescence, creating memorable nighttime kayaking and paddling experiences as movement through the water triggers flashes of blue-green light.
World-Class Inshore Fishing: The Indian River Lagoon has long been renowned for redfish, along with spotted seatrout, snook, tarpon, and other prized inshore species.
Atlantic Beaches & Surfing: Just across the causeway, Brevard County’s Atlantic coastline offers miles of beaches, including the World Famous Cocoa Beach, known for swimming, beach walks, fishing, and some of Florida’s most established surfing culture. Florida’s Space Coast describes itself as the surf capital of the East Coast, with surfing traditions stretching back generations and numerous well-known breaks along the county’s shoreline.
Home of a Surfing Legend: The Space Coast is the hometown of Kelly Slater, the record eleven-time world surfing champion, who grew up in Cocoa Beach and learned to surf along the Space Coast—an extraordinary legacy for a region whose beach culture remains closely tied to the sport.
Two Distinct Waterfronts: Living in Melbourne offers convenient access to both the protected waters and natural habitats of the Indian River Lagoon and the open Atlantic Ocean—two very different coastal environments within minutes of one another.
The Space Coast
America’s Gateway to Space: Brevard County is home to Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, placing residents in the heart of America’s modern space program and one of the world’s most active launch regions.
Rocket Launches: Launches by NASA and commercial space companies such as SpaceX have become part of life on the Space Coast—often visible throughout Brevard County and accompanied by the unmistakable sight, sound, and excitement of a rocket heading to orbit.
Aerospace & Technology: The Space Coast’s economy and identity are closely tied to aerospace, defense, engineering, and advanced technology, with NASA and major commercial space companies maintaining a significant presence in the region—including SpaceX, founded and led by Elon Musk, and Blue Origin, founded by Jeff Bezos.
Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex: One of Florida’s signature attractions offers an unusually close look at the past, present, and future of spaceflight, including Space Shuttle Atlantis, the Apollo/Saturn V Center, the Kennedy Space Center Bus Tour, astronaut experiences, exhibits, and opportunities to view launches.
Backyard Launch Views: Rocket launches from Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral can be viewed directly from the residence’s backyard, turning launch days—and especially nighttime launches—into a remarkable part of everyday life at the home.
(These pictures of a daytime launch and night launch were taken from the residence.)
Port Canaveral
Port Canaveral: Brevard County is home to the world’s busiest cruise port, with seven major cruise lines sailing from Port Canaveral: Disney Cruise Line, Royal Caribbean International, Carnival Cruise Line, Norwegian Cruise Line, MSC Cruises, Celebrity Cruises, and Princess Cruises. The port is home to many of the world’s newest, largest, and most technologically advanced cruise ships, including recent deployments such as Royal Caribbean’s Star of the Seas and Norwegian Aqua, with additional next-generation ships continuing to be assigned to Port Canaveral. In fiscal year 2025, the port recorded more than 8.6 million cruise passenger movements, giving Space Coast residents unusually convenient access to cruises throughout the Bahamas, Caribbean, and beyond.
Schools & Higher Education
Brevard County Schools: Brevard Public Schools earned a districtwide “A” rating from the State of Florida for the third consecutive year in 2026, reflecting the strength of the public-school system serving communities throughout the Space Coast.
Highly Regarded Choice Schools: Brevard is also home to competitive public choice and secondary-school options such as West Shore Jr./Sr. High in Melbourne and Edgewood Jr./Sr. High, both of which have earned strong statewide and national recognition.
Strong Graduation Outcomes: Brevard Public Schools recently reported the highest graduation rate in district history, with several area high schools—including West Shore, Edgewood, Satellite, and Viera—posting exceptionally high graduation rates.
Private & Faith-Based Education: Melbourne and the surrounding Space Coast offer several well-regarded private and faith-based options, including Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy, a college-preparatory school serving preschool through grade 12; Melbourne Central Catholic High School, which offers a rigorous college-preparatory program with honors, Advanced Placement, and dual-enrollment opportunities; and Merritt Island Christian School, a co-educational Christian school serving students through grade 12 with a college-preparatory curriculum that includes STEM programming. Additional Catholic elementary and middle-school options are also available throughout the Melbourne area. Merritt Island Christian School’s official materials describe a K–12 academic program and a 14-acre campus on Merritt Island.
Florida Institute of Technology: Located in Melbourne, Florida Tech is a private research university founded in 1958 as Brevard Engineering College to educate the early engineers and scientists working in America’s emerging missile and space program. Today it is a nationally recognized STEM-focused university with strengths in aerospace engineering, aviation, space sciences, marine sciences, cybersecurity, systems engineering, business, psychology, and other disciplines. Research is central to the university’s mission, with active work spanning aerospace and space sciences, artificial intelligence, aviation safety, advanced mobility, marine science, and other emerging technologies. Its College of Aeronautics also operates the Emil Buehler Center for Aviation Training and Research near Melbourne Orlando International Airport, giving students access to flight training and aviation research in the heart of the Space Coast.
Eastern Florida State College: Eastern Florida State College provides another substantial higher-education resource in Brevard County, with its Melbourne campus serving as one of four campuses across the Space Coast. The college offers more than 150 degree and certificate options, including associate and bachelor’s degrees, university-transfer programs, health sciences and nursing, public safety, business, cybersecurity, advanced manufacturing, engineering technology, career and technical programs, and continuing education.
Connected to Orlando/ Central Florida
Air Travel Access: Melbourne is served locally by Melbourne Orlando International Airport (MLB), providing convenient commercial air service from the Space Coast, including nonstop flights to major hubs such as Atlanta and Charlotte, seasonal domestic routes, and scheduled international service from several cities in the United Kingdom. For the broadest domestic and international network, Orlando International Airport (MCO) remains readily accessible without requiring residents to live within the Orlando metropolitan area.
World-Famous Theme Parks: World-Famous Theme Parks: Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando Resort are the two headline destinations, with Universal now spanning Universal Studios Florida, Islands of Adventure, Volcano Bay, and the newer Epic Universe. SeaWorld Orlando and Central Florida’s many other attractions are also readily accessible for day trips, visiting family, and weekend getaways.
Professional Sports: Orlando is home to major professional sports, including the NBA’s Orlando Magic, MLS’s Orlando City SC, and the NWSL’s Orlando Pride, along with a wide range of college and special sporting events.
Entertainment & Culture: Major concerts, touring productions, festivals, dining, shopping, museums, and cultural events throughout Orlando add another layer of entertainment within convenient reach of the Space Coast.
The Best of Both Worlds: The location offers access to everything Central Florida is known for while allowing residents to return home to the beaches, waterways, lower-density surroundings, and coastal lifestyle of Melbourne and the Space Coast.
