Favorite Beach/Beach Towns
Muddy
USA
I'm thinking about it, and I've been to a lot of them over the years. The one I grew up going to was Jones Beach on Long Island. That is a state park though (so no shops, hotels, casinos, bars all that shit) some people prefer that but you know me I kinda prefer the whole beach town stuff going on, hell maybe even a strip club on the beach (although I've yet to find a good beach strip club) As far as the Gulf and Great lake beaches, I get it if your going for a more chill kind of experience, they can be relaxing places as far as the water part goes but I'm more into the Atlantic or Pacific beaches where you actually got the waves it's way more fun for me.
Anyway some ones that come to mind...
Miami Beach. Early though before it gets crazy. Some people will hate this one but I just like it. White suit, Sonny Crockett wanna be on Ocean Avenue, underneath I got my swimsuit and then I go right over. Best of both worlds. Warm water too, that's somewhat blue and you can see through.
San Diego, Pacific/Mission/Imperial. It's just San Diego, it's fucking Paradise. It's my favorite beach town. If only the strip clubs were better aye.
Yes very touristy answers on my part but fuck it this is what I like and I've been to A LOT of them. I'm not one of these guys that's driving hours to the middle of nowhere to have beach to myself, it ain't that serious. For the northern stuff it's too cold. And you get that dark green water you can't see through. Some stuff that's cool, is like Corpus Christi you can drive your car on the beach. Clearwater and various other west coast Florida beaches the sand can be a white finite type sand that isn't annoying at all. Chicago while I don't know how clean it is (although it doesn't look dirty, you could see right through that Lake Michigan water) but where else can you be on a beach in the shadow of all those skyscrapers, at least in America. Just the waves suck on the above.
Worst beach (although not the town part) easy is Key West. Rock beaches, Feet RIP.
Anyway some ones that come to mind...
Miami Beach. Early though before it gets crazy. Some people will hate this one but I just like it. White suit, Sonny Crockett wanna be on Ocean Avenue, underneath I got my swimsuit and then I go right over. Best of both worlds. Warm water too, that's somewhat blue and you can see through.
San Diego, Pacific/Mission/Imperial. It's just San Diego, it's fucking Paradise. It's my favorite beach town. If only the strip clubs were better aye.
Yes very touristy answers on my part but fuck it this is what I like and I've been to A LOT of them. I'm not one of these guys that's driving hours to the middle of nowhere to have beach to myself, it ain't that serious. For the northern stuff it's too cold. And you get that dark green water you can't see through. Some stuff that's cool, is like Corpus Christi you can drive your car on the beach. Clearwater and various other west coast Florida beaches the sand can be a white finite type sand that isn't annoying at all. Chicago while I don't know how clean it is (although it doesn't look dirty, you could see right through that Lake Michigan water) but where else can you be on a beach in the shadow of all those skyscrapers, at least in America. Just the waves suck on the above.
Worst beach (although not the town part) easy is Key West. Rock beaches, Feet RIP.
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Corpus I’m well aware of because of childhood trips and have plenty of positive memories there. I’m surprised you ended up giving a shout out since I figured the Texas gulf coast would be unmemorable compared to other places. I remember this one Austrian I met once who (knowing I’m from Texas) talked about the one time he was sent out to Texas was Corpus and he hated it. I’m sure it doesn’t compare to European beaches lol
Santa Monica California
Pismo Beach California
La Jolla California
There’s some awesome beach towns in New Jersey AC and Wildwood Crest come to mind, Virginia Beach was a great town, so was Newport, but my favorite was Monterrey and let’s keep in mind, Bar Harbor Maine should be in the conversation as well as some of the towns on Cape Cod
So many great beach towns it’s impossible to list them all.
The city itself can't compare to la
One thing I'll say about Jones Beach, I love the amphitheater. I've seen a bunch of concerts there and the acoustics are amazing for an outdoor venue. I'll give away my age here, but when I was a kid my grandmother took me there when Guy Lombardo used to come out in a motorboat to kick off the shows. Back then the area between the seats and the stage used to be like a moat and the stage like an island. https://www.longisland.com/site_media/im…
You’re so right amazing acoustics, great summer concert venue
The best beach TOWNS are along the gulf coast from Waveland, MS through Pensacola, FL. Unfortunately, those places get leveled by hurricanes literally every couple of years, and have lost a lot of history and charm.
The middle keys - Islamorada and Marathon- have the best water. The water is so clear and prismatic that it looks just a foot or two deep. Step off your boat and you fall into 15 or 20 feet of water.
I’ve never seen so much seaweed in a beach in my life, and huge construction equipment removing it. Yeah nobody wants to see that at the beach.
I’ve heard that that spill was responsible for many of the red tide episodes in recent years
I also enjoy North Carolina and the Outer Banks beaches.
Florida beaches I’ve enjoyed are the Vero Beach area on the east coast - and the Tampa Bay area. Very different coastlines on opposite sides of the state.
@cash yeah the shore can be great
If you’re looking for a beach in key west the public beach is very rocky and you need to wear water shoes or you’ll tear up your feet
But those two hotels have a nice sand beach small but nice and only available to hotel guests, there might be a few others but those are the ones I know.
Delray Beach,Florida
Del Mar Beach, California
The Florida Keys has the best water, but no real beaches.
Marina Cay in the British Virgin Islands, followed closely by the Baths on Virgin Gorda in the BVIs.
Favorite Secluded - Fort De Soto (Tierra Verde)
Best Party - Dewey Beach, Delaware
(Used to be) Best Golf Destination - Myrtle Beach, now....??
Most Surprisingly Scenic - West Shore of the LP, Michigan
Best Place to People Watch - Key West
cool place!
SJG
I’m not a big beach-guy per se in the sense I don’t necessarily enjoy sitting in the sand and sun-bathing (in part b/c I’m very fair-skinned) – and I don’t necessarily enjoy swimming in the ocean mostly b/c of the waves – it’s ok but not something I crave per se.
But I do like the beach-area vibe – and of course enjoy looking at the eye-candy particularly downhere in Miami.
Pre-Covid I would hang-out in South Beach (SoBe) a fair-amount – the beach-area is just more relaxing and a different vibe from the city – hitting SoBe on the weekends felt like a little get-away that was just about 30-minutes away from the crib – I recall I almost instantly felt relaxed and in a better-mood as soon as I was on the causeway from Miami to Miami-Beach and I would look-out at the water as I was driving on the causeway towards the beach and I would see the boats and jet-skis – I would be almost instantly relaxed and in a better-mood just on the drive there. I didn’t hit the beach (sand/water) that often and usually just hung-out in SoBe mostly on Ocean Drive (street next to the beach) – I’d often take my bicycle and ride up and down Ocean Drive and other parts of SoBe and check out all the hot babes walking around SoBe often wearing very-little (plenty of bare-asses in tiny g-strings) – I’d spend an afternoon; get something to eat in the plethora of SoBe dining-options, and maybe have a drink at one of the sidewalk bars facing the beach.
I also liked hitting Cocoa Beach when I wanted a little getaway from the same-ole same-ole – it was a 3-hour-drive from my Miami crib to Cocoa Beach – I mainly went to hit the strip-club Inner Room and actually never made it to the Cocoa Beach beaches – but I def liked the laidback feel of Cocoa Beach and that it had 3 decent SCs close to each other – very different vibe from the Miami jungle where I live – pre-Covid I’d drive up to Cocoa Beach every few months on a Fr after lunch – it would take me about an hour to get out of South Florida (get past Palm Beach county) but once I got past the northern-end of Palm Beach county and thus out South FL, the traffic would significantly thin-down and it was just a different scenery and I felt relaxed after I got past/out-off South FL – I would just chill for the next 2-hours listening to music in the car till I got to Cocoa Beach - I had to take a causeway over the water to get from I-95 to Cocoa Beach and it too had the nice relaxing feeling of looking out over the water when one was on the causeway and it got me in the right/relaxed mood.
So although I’m not a big beach-guy per se, I do enjoy the laidback vibe of beach-towns especially when there’s stuff to do and/or some nice eye-candy to look at.
Never been out West (Cali etc) – but I’m not used to hills/mountains/cliffs – thus the beaches that I’ve seen on TV/YouTube with cliffs or rocks etc I don’t find that appealing – I’m used to flat-terrain and like wide beaches (wide sand area) vs a small/narrow sand-area b/w a cliff and the water – I wouldn’t say I dislike hilly/cliffy beaches, but not my pref.