My pregnant wife, also in South Walton County. Grayton Beach.
Posted on 02/24/2017 7:12:36 AM PST by blam
• TripAdvisor has released its 2017 Travelers' Choice Awards, naming the 25 best beaches in the US.
• Florida's Siesta Key Beach claims the title of America's best beach, followed by coastal stretches across the country in Hawaii, California, Georgia, and more.
• TripAdvisor also found the cheapest month to visit each beach destination, and the average rate for a hotel room there.
The world is full of gorgeous beaches, so it's easy to forget that the US has some spectacular beaches of its own — especially if you don't live along the coast.
TripAdvisor's 2017 Travelers' Choice Awards, which names the 25 best beaches in the country, serves as a reminder. The selected beaches — based on millions of reviews from travelers using the website between 2015 and 2016 — are sprinkled across the nation in places like Cape Cod and Honolulu.
TripAdvisor has also figured out the cheapest month of the year to travel to each destination, as well as the average cost of a night in a hotel, to help you organize a trip.
Here are the top-rated beaches to prompt your vacation planning:
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“makes the whole list not worth the paper it is printed on”
And it’s trip advisor....usually pretty dependable info in my experience. At least they got Siesta Key right IMO.
Between St. Pete Beach, FL (3 miles from my house) & Clearwater Beach, FL (15 miles from my house) I’ll take SPB any day ! Clearwater is one big traffic jam and I’m talking about the beach itself. The actual road system is a parking lot.
SBP is quiet and amazing. Actually, wander south of SPB to Pass-A-Grill and you’ll find quiet and amazing !
I like the clear water. Some of the Gulf beaches further south seem to have muddy water.
We go to Ocracoke every year and I don’t even see the beach.
It's a terrible place, only rednecks go there. You wouldn't like it, people. Go to Daytona. Or Fort Lauderdale.
I love 30A
What? You don’t like hot-footing it through a sea of beach towels to get to a tepid ocean? I’ll take the brutal Pacific beaches, as well.
shhhh! And see my previous.
That’s both the charm and the drawback to Ocracoke, no beach houses or hotels at all, it’s all NPS. If you want to see the beach you’ve got to go north of the village to the public beach accesses, camp at the NPS campground at the base of the dunes which is also north of the village, or have a 4WD vehicle to take the old sand beach road south to some very nice beaches. Remote, few people other than fishermen and the occasional nudists, lol.
Yes, I’m very jealous those continuing north of where the pavement ends.
Some years ago I was lounging on the OBX beach, watching the kids frolic and wife tan. I looked at my iPad (hardcore geek that I am) and thought: before we leave the beach today, I could use this thing to buy a beach house, arrange moving of all our stuff, sell the Atlanta house, and get a new remote-work job. Soooooo tempting...
Will never forget the first time I saw Navarre.
South of the village? Isn’t that water?
Cut offs are sexy!
At one time Florida needed to entice people to develop and settle the land.
If you ever succumb, study the area and learn where the beach erosion is, to avoid it. On Hatteras, I’ve always loved the Mirlo Beach area of north Rodanthe, just stunning what they’ve built there as far as beach houses, very elaborate, drawing upon Hatteras vernacular for architecture such as the Chicomacomico Life Station and Lighthouses. They’re all falling into the Atlantic now, and I just hate it. Loved driving through there before nature started doing what it will.
Exactly. Nothing pretty about a sea of umbrellas and people, and warm water with no waves.
My girlfriend once took me to the beaches at Galveston. They were awful. Brown sand and muddy water. South Padre Island is a little better but still can’t compare to the Florida Panhandle.
I think it is the Mississippi. The current runs West from there and causes the muddy oceans. East of the Mississippi is clear water and white sand.
Technically speaking, yes. But, so is north of the village, technically speaking. How about southwest?
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From La Jolla to Leo Carrillo and up to Pismo.
My pregnant wife, also in South Walton County. Grayton Beach.
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