Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Northeast Florida
Why Go?
Few regions highlight the diversity of Florida's geography and character as dramatically as
the Northeast.
Near the Florida-Georgia border, Amelia Island is a gorgeous Southern belle, resplen-
dent in nature's finest ornamentation. An hour to the south, Jacksonville, Florida's most
populous city, is an urban sprawl of high-rises, highways and steel-girded bridges. Jack-
sonville's mellow beaches offer a refreshingly slower pace to their southern Atlantic coun-
terparts. Incongruous and unique, nearby St Augustine, the oldest continuously occupied
city in the US, has something for everyone - history, architecture, culture, a gamut of ex-
cellent dining and plenty of kid-friendly tourist schmaltz. The latter edges its way down to
Daytona, 'the most famous beach in the world,' a proud party king, ever at the ready to
whip off his shirt, down a beer with a shot of tequila and get all revved up for some r-r-r-
racing: NASCAR, that is.
For a slower pace, retreat inland for rural tranquillity, quaint antiques villages, pristine
springs and miles of clover-green pastures.
