Daytona Beach Outdoors and Recreational Opportunities
If you like the outdoors, Daytona is the place.
The World’s Most Famous Beach (a breathtaking 500 feet wide at low tide) has an ocean park atmosphere second to none, and it’s open year-round. In addition to the beach at Daytona, there are miles of oceanfront awaiting you in Volusia county.
Recreational opportunities in the outdoors are the most important assets of this area..
The fishing and boating here is incredible-both in the Ocean and the Indian river.
There is always something to catch year round and our weather lets you do it. If you like the water, this is the place
Recreational Opportunities:
- 20 Marinas
- 50 Parks,
- 48 public Golf Courses
- 17 private golf courses
- 42 Campgrounds and recreational vehicle parks
- 9 public Tennis Courts
- 25 charter boats
To see a complete list of parks and recreational opportunities see
- the sites below
- http://www.floridastateparks.org/FndaParkRegion.cfm?Dist=Southeast
http://volusia.org/parks/links.htm
Things to do outdoors:
- Fishing-saltwater, freshwater-Ocean, Bay and freshwater
- Boating-Ocean, Bay or the Indian river
- Camping
- Diving
- Hiking
- Tennis
- Golf
- Tennis
- Bike riding
- Birding
- Photography and Wildlife watching
- Kayaking—canoes-there are good rental locations and lots of places to launch.
Other places to visit.
- Central Florida Zoological Park (37 miles) Sanford
- Cypress Gardens (101 miles) Winter Haven
- Florida’s Busch Gardens (139 miles) Tampa
- Florida’s Silver Springs (63 miles) Silver Springs
- Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex (56 miles) Kennedy Space Center
- Orlando Science Center (50 miles) Orlando
- Sea World of Florida (65 miles) Orlando
- St. Augustine Historic District (53 miles) St. Augustine
- Walt Disney World (67 miles) Lake Buena Vista
- Wet-N-Wild (63 miles) Orlando
- Universal Studios (63 miles) Orlando
Pro Sports
- Daytona International speedway
- Jacksonville NFL Jaguars –1-2 hrs away—89 miles
- http://www.jaguars.com/
- MLB-Florida Marlins A 4-5 hour drive to Miami
- 2269 Dan Marino Blvd, Pro Player Stadium, Miami Gardens, FL 33056 · 305-626-7400
- Miami Dolphins A 4-5 hour drive to Miami
- 2269 Dan Marino Blvd, Pro Player Stadium, Miami Gardens, FL 33056 · 305-620-2578
- Miami Heat A 4-5 hour drive to Miami
- 601 Biscayne Blvd, American Airlines Arena, Miami, FL 33132-1801 · 786-777-432
For more information on other topics or areas see the links to the left.
