The Best Beaches of Florida

Gate Station Beach, South Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida

Driving 10 miles south down old Highway A1A from Ponte Vedra Beach to Vilano Beach is simply a wonderful excursion by car in Florida. You have the feeling you’re in a tunnel of green created by the grass covered sand dunes like small mountains on either side of the the road. Then mangrove trees more inland [...]

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Guana River State Park, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida

The state of Florida used some wisdom in acquiring what it took to create Guana River State Park. It covers some 2,400 acres stretching from the Intracoastal Waterway to the Atlantic Ocean offering public access to five miles of the finest beach in northern Florida. And if you’re into nature, you’re in luck. Programs are [...]

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Mickler’s Landing - Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida

Ponte Vedra Beach is a world-class golf and tennis destination, just 20 miles outside of Jacksonville, Florida. Many people lump all the beaches together in the area, but Ponte Vedra Beach is worlds apart. Character alone sets it apart. In a separate county (St. Johns), Ponte Vedra has focused on golf-course living and tries hard [...]

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Best Beach in Jacksonville, Florida

The largest beach in the Jacksonville, Florida area is called Jacksonville Beach. With its own set of problems, the oceanfront area is non-descript. Most businesses have moved out and decay has set in with only a handful of revitalization. When you drive along the beach down 1st Street, you pass common eateries, run-down bars, businesses [...]

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Atlantic Beach, Jacksonville, Florida

One has to say, when driving through this area of the country, that Atlantic Beach is one of the most appealing of the communities in the Jacksonville area. And it tries to be all things to all beachgoers. There’s a wonderful Town Center of shops, restaurants, and clean sidewalks. And visitors are welcomed by a center [...]

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Kathryn Abbey Hanna Park, Mayport, Florida

Mayport isn’t really a town like your average American town. It’s a U.S. Navy port and Mayport Naval Station, commissioned back in 1942, is the third largest in the country. So if you don’t have someone who lives or serves here, you must be going to Kathryn Abbey Hanna Park. The ferry will take you a half-mile [...]

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Huguenot Park Beach, Fort George Island

When the folks around Jacksonville want to spend a day on the beach in a eco-friendly setting as opposed to those “city” beaches around Jacksonville Beach, well they head up to Fort George Island. This triangular-shaped island sits over the St. Johns River across from the naval town of Mayport. On the east, there is the Fort [...]

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Best Beach on Big and Little Talbot Island State Park

When you travel to the northeast corner of Duval County between Nassau Sound and Fort George Inlet, there are three islands that are side-by-side like alligators just sunning themselves. These islands are Big Talbot, Long, and Little Talbot Islands. The famous Highway A1A crosses them all, though it really only touches Little Talbot Island, the [...]

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Amelia Island State Park

When you stop in at Fernandina Beach, or even the Amelia Island Island Plantation Resort, what you think might be anti-climatic is actually a place that is worth a visit when in the area; on the island. Amelia Island State Park is wilderness; well, the island left at its best by what humans could leave their [...]

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Amelia Island Plantation

If you’re into golf courses and beachfront condos, then you probably see Amelia Island Plantation and the surrounding developments as better than what was there before. But if you are bothered by a beautiful island‘s encroachment by people who believe being one with nature is an afternoon on the golf course, you might think it [...]

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Fernandina Beach

Fernandina Beach is a wonderful, well-preserved town at the north end of Amelia Island, which is Florida’s most northern barrier island. So it’s also Florida’s first beach town! This is the beginning of what many call the “First Coast,” a part of Florida’s northeast that is mainly overlooked by tourists as they zoom down I-95 toward [...]

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Fort Clinch State Park Beach

The first beach in the Sunshine State (Florida) clinches the unrivaled achievement of sandy shores. It’s that beach, all 4,000 feet of it on the Atlantic Ocean, along with another beach of 8,400 feet in the Cumberland Sound area which both are right in the Fort Clinch State Park, just north of famous Fernandina Beach. This is one [...]

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Sanibel Shells and Bowman’s Beach

Bowman’s Beach provides some from the Sanibel‘s greatest shelling right after a storm, and some from the island’s most remote seaside space. There’s a quarter mile or so stroll through the car parking great deal towards the seaside, in which you will cross a wooden bridge more than freshwater. Bowman Seaside is also an ideal location [...]

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Bahia Honda State Park Beaches, Florida

With beaches, it’s like this: They can be beautiful and with what you think is perfect weather, the best place to be at the time. Fresh air, open sky; like God is so close and you can easily communicate with Him. But “liking” anything, including beaches, is subjective. We all have our likes and dislikes. [...]

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Phipps Ocean Park, Palm Beach, Florida

Phipps Ocean Park, situated on Ocean Boulevard, is a small park in the Palm Beach, Florida area with a rocky, narrow shoreline. This is really nice for locals and tourists alike, and it’s simple to see why. Phipps Ocean Park is much more than the typical Florida beaches. You will find playgrounds, tikki huts, grills, picnic [...]

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Smathers Beach, Key West, Florida

When you think of south Florida, I mean really south, you probably have visions of white, sandy beaches and coconut trees. Throw in a few gentle waves and before you know it, you’re down in the Keys with the mystery and charm that has for generations put a grin on the faces of many an [...]

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Cape Florida State Park in Key Biscayne, Florida

At the south end of Key Biscayne, right off of the city of Miami is Cape Florida State Park and a beach that makes Dr. Beach’s number 10 spot on the list for 2010 of Best Beaches in America. The color of the water is breathtaking and clear and because of an outlaying reef and [...]

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Hollywood Beach, Hollywood, Florida

Hollywood Beach and the Hollywood Beach Boardwalk are worth a visit. This beach is typical of Southern Atlantic beaches with light tan colored sand and wide enough to allow room for a lot of people, without you feeling that you’re going to be crowded, or that you’re crowding someone else. What is nice about Hollywood [...]

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Siesta Key Public Beach, Sarasota, Florida

Siesta Key is literally split down the middle by an outcrop locals call Point of Rocks. See, North of this split, the sand is powdery, white, and nearly 100 percent pure quartz. But to the south, the sand is that shellier material. Siesta Key claims some of the finest sand beaches in the state of [...]

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Siesta Key Beach, Sarasota, Florida

Siesta Key has a youthful spirit that is drawn to the glassine waters and quartz-crystal white sands, which have been officially ranked as the “finest, whitest sand beach in the world.” Siesta Beach is energized. Best of all, though, is giving in to afternoon “siestas” in the sun, either swaying on comfy floats atop gentle [...]

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