Best Family Friendly Beaches in New Smyrna Beach

Located in the city of New Smyrna Beach, Flagler Avenue Beachfront Park is a recreational park that has a popular white-sand beach with nearby palm trees. This beach has a magnificent backdrop of oceanfront buildings. 

Located in the southern part of Canaveral National Seashore, Playalinda Beach is a nude beach with pale cream sand on Florida’s eastern coast.   Playalinda Beach is located in Canaveral National Seashore which has nearly 24 miles of beach – and which contains nearly 58,000 acres of barrier island, open lagoon, coastal hammock, pine flatwoods, and offshore waters.   

Reader's Digest listed this nude beach as one of the best beaches in Florida, and Conde Nast Traveller magazine also listed it as one of the best beaches near Orlando.  This Playalinda Nude Beach was listed as one of the best nude beaches in the world by the swimwear brand Pour Moi in 2023.  This beach is usually open between 6 am and 8 pm.

Located near the city of New Smyrna Beach, Apollo Beach is a large five miles-long east-facing beach with white sand.  This beach is a part of a national seashore named Canaveral National Seashore.  Apollo Beach was featured in The Daily Telegraph newspaper’s article “Find out-of-this-world beaches on Florida’s Space Coast.”  

A part of this beach is popular with clothing optional visitors – this clothing optional portion is located near the southern end of the beach. 

The beach is usually open between 6 am and 8 pm.