Beaches

The best Oregon coast towns for families are Seaside, Cannon Beach, Newport and Lincoln City, and the first thing to know about all four is that nobody swims. The Pacific is cold all year, so the beach is for sand, kites and tide pools, and 13 of the 16 hotels in our records have an … Read more

The best Outer Banks town for a family depends on whether you are booking a house or a hotel, and after that on the age of the children. Duck is the town for a house and a week without the car, because none of its four beach accesses has public parking and the village is … Read more

Three of the 24 US beach towns we price average 70°F or better in late January, and all three are in Florida. Key West is the warmest at 75.8°F, and Sanibel Island is the one to write down, because it clears the line at 75.0°F while its median three-star room that same week is $338 … Read more

The best beach towns in North Carolina for families are Corolla, Nags Head, Kill Devil Hills, Duck, Kitty Hawk, Wrightsville Beach and Carolina Beach, five of them on the northern Outer Banks. Duck has no public parking at any of its four beach accesses, which sounds like a fault and is the point of the … 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. Nineteen US beach towns we cover average 75°F or better in November, five in Hawaii, thirteen in Florida and South Padre Island in Texas. Warm afternoons are the easy part. Warm … Read more