Mexico Beach

If you get hungry, there are many great restaurants near Mexico Beach.  Killer Crab & Seafood offers fantastic seafood and it also offers a variety of other dishes including cheesesteak, burgers, French fries, and gumbo.  Mango Marley's is known for serving delicious Florida-style Caribbean dishes including burgers, fried seafood, desserts, sandwiches, wraps, and chicken dishes.  Shipwreck Raw Bar offers many amazing dishes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner including pastas, seafood, soups, sandwiches, biscuits-and-gravy, waffles, and steak.  Pepper's Mexican Grill & Cantina is a Mexican restaurant that offers many amazing dishes for lunch and dinner including chimichangas, quesadillas, enchiladas, burritos, and tortilla soup.  If you are looking for another good and affordable nearby restaurant, Paul Gant’s Bar-B-Que offers a variety of delicious barbecued dishes including barbecued chicken, turkey, barbecued ribs, sandwich, and ham.

If you are looking for a hotel near Mexico Beach, there are many great nearby moderately-priced options within a 35-minute-drive.  The 3-Star Cape San Blas Inn that offers many amenities including a private dock, a hot tub, loaner facility for kayaks, canoes, and bikes, and complimentary breakfast.  A more affordable hotel is the 3-Star Holiday Inn Express & Suites Panama City – Tyndall, an IHG Hotel offers many amenities including a pool,  a fitness center, and complimentary breakfast.  Another moderately priced hotel is The Port Inn And Cottages, Ascend Hotel Collection that offers many amenities including a gift shop, a sundeck, a seasonal pool, a picnic area, a library, a bike rental facility, and complimentary breakfast.  El Governor Beach Resort & RV Park – also called El Governor Mexico Beach – offers many amenities including a gift shop, a pool, a bar, and a kids’ splash pad.  If you are looking for another good and affordable nearby hotel, the 2-Star Driftwood Inn Mexico Beach offers many amenities including a beach chair loaner service, a general store, a gift shop, sitting areas, and a gazebo.  Another affordable and flexible accommodation option is staying in a vacation rental property – there are many nearby vacation rentals Mexico Beach Fl and some of the famous Mexico Beach rentals here are Pristine Properties Vacation Rentals and Paradise Shores Mexico Beach.

Although Mexico Beach does not have lifeguards, the beach and the area around it have a few other amenities including grassy recreational areas, restrooms, boardwalks, and picnic areas. 

Dogs are not allowed here. 

Mexico Beach offers many fun activities including sunbathing, beachcombing, fishing, swimming, surfing, kitesurfing, windsurfing, bodysurfing, snorkeling, scuba diving, paddleboarding, boogie boarding, skimboarding, boating, wakeboarding, jet-skiing, parasailing, kayaking, canoeing, surf-skiing, and wildlife watching.  

This beach is popular with scuba divers and snorkelers, who visit here to explore the nearby vibrant underwater landscape and marine biodiversity.  If you are planning to swim, kayak, canoe, or snorkel here, we recommend being careful because the water here is known to have unpredictable rip currents and dangerous waves.  Please also note that motor-driven boats and watersports equipment are not allowed within 300 feet of this beach.

Mexico Beach is ideal for visitors looking for a quieter beach experience because this beach sees fewer visitors as compared to other Gulf County beaches.  If you like taking pictures with beautiful views, Mexico Beach offers amazing Instagram-worthy views of the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf County shoreline, particularly in evenings.

Mexico Beach does not offer wheelchair access to visitors with disabilities.  However, there are a few local private organizations that offer beach wheelchair rental facilities – these private organizations include Vacation Prep Squad and Wheels in the Sand.

Getting to Mexico Beach is easy – this beach is easily accessible from United States Highway 98.  There are free street parking spaces nearby.

The sand at Mexico Beach is composed of quartz and it is reported to be millions of years old – the sand here originated in the Appalachian Mountain Range.  In addition, Mexico Beach is also used as a nesting site by sea turtles usually between May and October.

There are many attractions near Mexico Beach within a 25-minute-drive.  Sunset Park is a recreational park that offers many amenities including a pavilion, picnic areas, grassy recreational areas, and restrooms.  Forgotten Coast Sea Turtle Center has interesting exhibits on sea turtles and the local biodiversity and it also has a gift shop.  Veterans Memorial Park at Beacon Hill is a recreational park that has an amphitheater and a monument dedicated to the members of the United States Armed Forces.  In addition, it also has many other amenities including playgrounds, pavilions, a dog-friendly park, pickleball courts, benches, and picnic areas.  St.Joseph Bay State Buffer Preserve is a nature preserve that offers a unique insight into the vibrant biodiversity and history of coastal Gulf County – this preserve has a visitors center and it also offers many activities including hiking, wildlife watching, kayaking, and canoeing.  If you are looking for another attraction near the beach,  Constitution Convention Museum State Park is based around the former settlement of St. Joseph, which was the site of Florida’s first constitutional convention in 1838.  The state park and its museum have interesting historical exhibitions and a replicated convention hall that depicts statesmen who participated in drafting Florida’s early constitution.