Daytona Beach - Oceanfront Park Oceanfront Park was really the original name of the project that brought us the The Daytona Beach Bandhsell and the Daytona Beach Clock Tower, both of which were dedicated in 1938. Most of the area is now know as "The Boardwalk" or "Ocean Walk Shoppes at Hilton Village" or "Ocean Walk" but it all started out as a park for the public to enjoy the beach. It runs along the ocean and is very rarely referred to as the "Oceanfront Park" , except for the ... Read more »
Daytona Beach
Daytona Beach – Daytona 200 Monument
Daytona Beach - Daytona 200 Monument The Daytona 500 is the race that Daytona International Speedway is famous for... but there is another world famous race the made Daytona famous. The World's Greatest Motorcycle race, The Daytona 200 has been run in Daytona Beach Since 1937. The Daytona 200 was originally run on a 4.2 mile beach track at the same location that Racing's North Turn Bar & restaurant stands today. The Daytona 200 is still run every year. This is the ... Read more »
Daytona Beach – Clock Tower
As we walk along the Daytona Beach's Boardwalk admiring the beach, we have a few other things thiat capture our attention I never stop marveling at the intense blues that you find along the beach, isn't the contrast with the image above breath-taking?? The Daytona Beach Hilton just happens to sit in front of one of the most recognizable figures on Daytona Beach, our Coquina Clock Tower !! The Coquina Clock Tower was added to the National Registry of historic places in 1999. The ... Read more »
Daytona Beach Boardwalk
Daytona Beach Boardwalk Walking along the Atlantic Ocean, from Main Street Pier to the south and extending to the edge of the Ocean Walk Proerty to the North is Daytona Beach's BoardWalk. This is a gathering place for folks to enjoy concerts, strolling, sitting, and watching the ocean. My kids love the BoardWalk area, it has much to do and you never know what you will find happerning at the bandshell. There are some throwback moments as you walk along.... pay a quarter and see to ... Read more »
Daytona Beach – Independent Tripadvisor Review
As I have previously posted, I love Tripadvisor and the entire concept of vacationers - guests having all questions answered to have a "plan" prior to arrival to get the most out of every travel opportunity !! However, with the Tripadvisor Forum, the reviews soon get buried by other questions and posted information. Because I think that these independent reviews are so important -- I decided to post them here so they can live in and also can be easily found... and besides I appreciate the ... Read more »
Daytona Beach Travel Resource – Tripadvisor
Daytona Beach Travel Info - Tripadvisor Tripadvisor is a great way to get your questions answered while planning your Daytona Beach vacation. There are hotel reviews and trip photos, and the best little travel game that will keep you busy for hours and hours... http://www.tripadvisor.com/TIQGame It comes recommended from me (Travel Score :: 132..!!) I also highly recommend the Daytona Beach travel forum. There are 10+ people that regularly answer any and all traveler questions ... Read more »
Daytona Beach & Stephen Crane
Crane's 'The Open Boat' Ask any upper-level English teacher to list the finest short stories ever written, and Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat" is sure to rank near the top. Mr. Crane's account of surviving the angry sea in a 10-foot dinghy has been applauded since its publication in 1899. You already knew that? Did you know that the story was written as a result of Mr. Crane's own experience of being shipwrecked and set adrift? Yeah? Well, OK, Smarty. Did you know that he washed ashore at ... Read more »
Daytona Beach – Plantation Number Nine
Plantation Number Nine The following was compiled by the Junior League of Daytona and was published in 1986 as "Historic Daytona Beach - a self-guided tour." On John Anderson Drive, about six miles north of Granada Boulevard, is the once-famous Number Nine Plantation. In 1876, Chauncey A. Bacon, a Civil War veteran from Connecticut, purchased a homestead that extended half a mile from the Halifax River eastward to the ocean. Bacon named his homestead Number Nine Plantation because it was the ... Read more »
Daytona beach – Pinewood Cemetery
There's nothing "Johnny come lately" about east Volusia County. Folks have been moving here, living here and dying here for hundreds of years. The Halifax area has some wonderfully worn Spanish moss-draped cemeteries as a result. If you've ever felt disconnected from your community, a Sunday stroll through one of these deep-rooted resting places might prove helpful. "Historic Daytona Beach," published by the Junior League of Daytona Beach in 1986, provides us with the following: "Pinewood ... Read more »
Daytona Beach – Oldest Rum Distillery
Marian Tomblin I was flipping through my old high school yearbook the other day, and got to laughing at the various superlatives we had pinned on our classmates. Do you remember who at your school was voted the cutest, the smartest, and the funniest? Volusia County is familiar with superlatives. This is where "The World's Richest Man"-John D. Rockefeller-lived, and where "The Fastest Man Alive"-Glenn Curtiss-received that title after driving his V-8 powered bicycle 136.47 miles per hour on ... Read more »