Florida Beaches - Jacksonville Beach

Jacksonville Beach is just one of many beaches on the upper east coast of Florida along the Atlantic Ocean. These include the beaches of Atlantic Beach, Neptune Beach, Jacksonville Beach, Ponte Vedra Beach. Collectively, they represent 10 miles of wide and mostly uncrowded beaches with Jacksonville Beach half of that.

On the Atlantic side of Florida, Jacksonville Beach sometimes has greater surf than Florida's west coast beaches when the conditions are right, and is therefore of greater interest to surfers. Although nothing like the surf in California or Hawaii, surfers take what they can get and watch for good conditions.

Swimming, sunning, kayaking, fishing, windsurfing, beach walking or jogging are the favorite activities along the beach. Surf fishing is also popular and the long rods unique to surf fishing for long distance casting can be seen working the waters.

The Jacksonville Beach Seawalk Pavilion and festivals grounds are a 2 square block, park like area that offers a variety of concerts and festivals throughout the year. In addition to regular arts, food and music festivals, mid-March brings the Great Atlantic Seafood and Music Festival. April enjoys Springing the Blues Festival.

Jacksonville Beach Fishing Pier is over 1,000' long extending well into the Atlantic Ocean. It has a bait shop, concession and restrooms. A fishing license is not required to fish from this pier. The pier can be found at 503 North 1st Street.

There are many beach access points with local parking, as well as a a few parking lots. However, as one goes south of Jacksonville Beach, there are fewer public parking spots.

Along this coast are good availability of restaurants, hotels, golf courses and shopping. See our Jacksonville page for more information about the Jacksonville area.

See our Jacksonville Beach hotels page, for pricing and availability of accommodations in Jacksonville Beach.

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