Sunday, March 24, 2013
Top 10 Best Beaches in USA
The United States of America has been sought after worldwide as one of the top destinations of tourist attractions. With millions of people living there and with another thousands of them visiting this country each day, the United States of America has proved it to be worthwhile, when it comes to taking a break and going on long vacations with your loved ones. Yet, another striking feature of this country remains the exotic beaches which are loved and referred by many tourists visiting USA daily. The beaches here are known for their crystallized and clean water, with wonderful and pleasant ambiance to just have a sober and simple time with the people you love, and especially because it’s the summer time and people are finding ways and means to just have a chill in the calm and lovely waters of beaches around the world, here is a list of some of the top beaches in the United States of America which are worth visiting and taking a tour around.
So here is the List of Best Beaches of USA:
10. Cape Hatteras, North California
Situated over 30 miles from the main island, this beach surely stands and remains as one of the popular benchmarks of a lighthouse which adds to the scenic beauty of this beach. This beach is located in the southernmost part of the North California Outer Banks and spreads over a huge stretch of 72 miles long, thus being one of the longest and vast barrier islands in California. The Cape Hatteras beach has also been claimed to be one of America’s first seashores. The really old and vintage fishing houses can still be spotted on visiting this beach. Also, sights of tourists surfing in the really strong waves of this beach and activities like fishing and swimming are some of the delights you get to watch in these clear waters.
9. Beachwalker Park, Kiawah Island, South Carolina
The Beachwalker Park in South Carolina has been claimed to be one of the best beaches of America. Apart from the normal and usual delights of this beach providing tourists with major attractions of activities such as swimming and surfing and fishing, a distinct feature of this beach remains with the fact that this is the place to actually acquire really cheap sea food. The fantastic and amazing sea food found in this beach truly remains a wonder for tourists even till date and that is what keeps this beach going and the tourists flowing in each day.
8. Cape Florida State Park, Key Biscayne, Florida
Being an island off the Atlantic coast, this beach offers tourists with the perfect blend of both the sunrise and sunsets, which very few beaches can actually offer a person. Formerly known as the Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park, it is located on the southernmost keys which can be reach with much ease and comfort using the causeway from Miami. This beach is popular among the masses of USA as well as tourists from abroad. The Cape Florida State Park beach has been highly commended for its emerald green waters and it’s really white coral sand. The beach is a perfect place to soak up the entire beach ambiance with the gentle surfing and clear crystal waters.
7. Coast Guard Beach, Eastham, Massachusetts
The Coast Guard Beach in Massachusetts is a part of the Cape Cod National Seashore. This beach is famous for another site located very close and nearby on the Cape’s Bay side called the First Encounter Beach which is still renowned as it was a site where the pilgrims and the Native Americans had their first encounter way back in the year of 1620. The Coast Guard Beach is also famous for being a popular site for some amazing and beautifully constructed historical lighthouses. Tourists can have a nice bath and swim in the chilly and cold waters of this exotic beach, as the water of this beach remains chilly all the year round. This beach is one perfect place to soak up the beach atmosphere and have a nice look at the sky and the beach on the dunes of the grasses.
6. Waimanalo Bay Beach Park, Oahu, Hawaii
The Waimanalo Bay Beach Park is situated about 15 miles away from the city of Honolulu. Loved by both the locals and tourists of the Hawaii, this beach is known to be one of the calmest and [peaceful beaches of the world, and thus termed as one of the safest beach waters to play around it. This beach has rare occurrence of high tides or waves, and thus it is one of the most sought after beaches in the world. Tourists can just enjoy their time here without any concern or worries, as this site is expected to have the least of big waves or strong tides.
5. St. George Island State Park, Florida
This beach is one of the most active beaches of the world, for a simple reason that it gives a person every reason to enjoy and indulge himself in activities such as birding, surfing and camping. Being a barrier island off the Florida Panhandle, the St. Gorge Island State Park remains to be one of the beaches which provide delicacy fishes to the tourists and locals around the area. One might just find some rare fishes such as the Spanish mackerel, or flounders and sea trots. This beach is lively all the time with people streaming in for swimming and many sunbathing activities, yet, visit to this beach has been a cause of concern over the years due to the BP Oil spill which took place in the Gulf of Mexico 2 years ago. Still, this beach remains one of the best and luxurious in the world.
4. Hamoa Beach, Maui, Hawaii
The Hamoa Beach located in Hawaii is actually and surprisingly an old breached volcanic crater, as tourists would just find a mixture of coral and lava sands, thus making the exclusivity of this beach even richer and sought after. This beach cannot be reached through air or by road, but interestingly tourists can reach this beach by a trek. This beach possesses a calm and peaceful serenity surrounded by tall huge coconut and palm tress around. Also, the clear waters and the vastly stretched cliffs around the Hamoa Beach is surely a site to just cherish and take enjoyment from.
3. Main Beach, East Hampton, New York
This beach is truly a wonder, when it comes to scenic beauty as well as your pockets, because even the parking space is expensive at 25 dollars here. One of the most exotic and expensive beach of the United States of America, the Main Beach is popular and famous for its clear crystal quartz sand. One will usually find this beach flowering with people and families from the well-to-do sections of the society. Located on the eastern end of the Long Island, this beach is surely a place which will leave you spellbound and amazed with its beauty.
2. Coronado Beach, Coronado, California
The Coronado beach which is stretched for about 1.5 miles off the area of San Diego has a major attraction of the well-constructed and architecturally beautiful hotel named Hotel Del Coronado, making it one of the most famous beaches in the world. One would find a streaming number of water activities and water sports, with people enjoying their moment on the sandy strips of this beach. The hotel and the crowd around has been one of the biggest factor to lure crowds to this beach from all across the world. Becoming majorly popular through an old Marilyn Monroe film named ‘Some Like It Hot’, one would be left amazed with the main street which is about half a mile away from the Coronado beach. This main street just looks like a small American city, with very similarly constructed bridges and houses and manicured lawns, just the way you like to see it in the real America.
1. Kahanamoku Beach, Waikiki, Oahu, Hawaii
The Kahanamoku Beach at Hawaii would just leave you staring at the cold blue waters and the clean clear sandy stretch across this beach. To add up to it, if you are one adventurous person looking out to some water sports, this surely is the beach to be at. This place is immensely popular among families, couples and other individuals’ elsewise, making this a prime destination for water sports and scenic beauty. Because the waves at this beach are much more sober, the coral reefs make things even easier to get a nice swim in the calm waters of this beach, or just have a nice bath alongside the beach without being afraid of strong tides or big waves, making it the number 1 beach of the United States of America.