Why Jacksonville Is Low-Key Florida's Best Beach Town

Florida beach vacations are as much a part of American travel tradition as middle school field trips to Washington DC. These trips can be jaunts to...

June 2, 2023
4:44 AM

Florida beach vacations are as much a part of American travel tradition as middle school field trips to Washington DC. These trips can be jaunts to the sugar sand beaches on the Panhandle or rage-all-night trips to South Florida. Glorious as they are, the one thing they all have in common is there are a lot of other people also going there. And then there's Jacksonville. Despite having 20 miles of fairly uncrowded beaches, it somehow gets forgotten in the beach vacation discussion. Whatever the reason, somehow the lower 48's largest city by land mass still flies under the radar.

Matt Meltzer