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The Daytona Beach area offers much more than just the beautiful beaches, gripping NASCAR® racing and plentiful golf courses for which it's known. However, exploring these options is a great place to start. Daytona's white sand beaches are considered among the best in the world—at low tide, the beach can reach a width of 500 feet. If swimming, surfing, boating, scuba diving, parasailing or fishing are among your favorite activities, you'll have plenty of opportunities to indulge in them. Cars are permitted on many sections of beach, but the beach fronting Ocean Walk is a pedestrian-only zone. This mile-long, family-friendly region spans from International Speedway Boulevard north to Seabreeze Boulevard. The beaches also are home to hundreds of interesting plant and animal species, with the endangered loggerhead sea turtle and piping plover enjoying the special protection of state and federal laws.
For car racing enthusiasts, nearby Daytona International Speedway— home of the NASCSAR Daytona 500 and Pepsi 400—presents 10 major weekends of racing activity. Along with DAYTONA USA, a highly interactive multi-million-dollar entertainment facility, the speedway provides an ideal outlet for fans of all ages to broaden their racing knowledge and fully experience the thrill of the sport. Daytona Beach has more than 20 championship golf courses, some designed by luminaries such as Rees Jones, Arnold Palmer and Gary Player. The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) makes its home here, and their Arthur Hill-designed Legends Course offers 18 holes of wellbunkered greens, rolling fairways and abundant water features.
The area is also rich with history, going back to the 16th-century arrival of French, Spanish and British explorers. Rare Seminole Indian relics and artifacts can be viewed at the Bulow Plantation House. The Casements—currently Ormond Beach's cultural center—was once the opulent winter home of multi-millionaire John D. Rockefeller. Commemorate the playing of the first integrated Major League Baseball spring training game on March 17, 1946, by visiting the Jackie Robinson Ballpark and Statue. Dabble in "crossing over" by taking the Daytona Ghost Walk along Main Street and Peninsula Drive, which combines history, scientific data and haunting tales with an entertaining stroll.
Get an aerobic workout by climbing 203 steps to the top of the 100+-year-old Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse, the second tallest lighthouse in the United States. Or just take a leisurely walk down Old Daytona's Beach Street, where tours and exhibits take you back to the town's 1870s origins. Ocean Walk Village is located adjacent to your resort. Here you'll fi nd great restaurants, unique specialty shops, an amphitheater and other entertainment facilitites.