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We may earn a commission when you book through links on this page. We don’t add any fee, and the commission helps support LayzTravel. The best free things to do in Virginia Beach with kids are Grommet Island Park, the boardwalk, the King Neptune statue and Mount Trashmore, with five more below. Grommet Island Park … Read more
We may earn a commission when you book through links on this page. We don’t add any fee, and the commission helps support LayzTravel. The best free things to do in Myrtle Beach with kids are Warbird Park, Savannah’s Playground, the boardwalk and the river aquarium at the Horry County Museum, with four more below. … Read more
We may earn a commission when you book through links on this page. We don’t add any fee, and the commission helps support LayzTravel. The best free things to do in Clearwater with kids are the Sunsets at Pier 60 festival, the Coachman Park splash pad, the birds of prey at Moccasin Lake and Sand … Read more
We may earn a commission when you book through links on this page. We don’t add any fee, and the commission helps support LayzTravel. Eleven US beach towns we cover average 70°F or better in February, five in Hawaii, five in Florida and South Padre Island in Texas. Warm air is the easy part. The … Read more
The closest beach to Charlotte is Myrtle Beach, about three and three-quarter hours by car and 176 miles down US-501, and it is barely the closest. Seven more beaches sit within about half an hour of it on the clock, on three different roads, which makes Charlotte the one city we cover where the drive … Read more
The best Georgia beaches for families are on three islands, Tybee, St. Simons and Jekyll, and the best single beach among the twelve accesses in our records is North Beach on Tybee, where a lifeguard tower is staffed every day from May through October, there is a playground behind the sand and the lighthouse is … Read more
The closest beach to Dallas is Galveston, about four and a half hours by car and 289 miles down I-45 through Houston, and the only beach on this list that works as a weekend. The rest of the Texas coast is a day’s drive, Corpus Christi and Port Aransas at six and a quarter and … Read more
The best Texas beach towns for families are Galveston, South Padre Island, Port Aransas and Corpus Christi, and the thing the Texas coast has that no other coast we cover does is a beach season that runs from March to November. Galveston is the one we would book first, with a beach patrol that guards … Read more
The best Jersey Shore town for a family depends on the age of the children and on whether the beach fee matters, and between the three towns we have scored it splits cleanly. Wildwood is the town for small children, with lifeguards every day from Memorial Day to Labor Day, the widest sand on the … Read more
The closest beach to Nashville is Pensacola Beach, about seven hours by car and 451 miles down I-65 S, through Birmingham and Montgomery. The four Gulf beaches behind it on the clock are all within twenty-one minutes of it, so from Nashville the drive does not choose the beach, and Destin, the one we rank … Read more
