Flagler Avenue Boardwalk(Flagler Avenue, Flagler Boardwalk)

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. 

Flagler Avenue Beachfront Park has many amenities including lifeguards, restrooms, showers, a pavilion, boardwalks, a vehicular access ramp, and a brick courtyard with stainless steel railings. 

Flagler Avenue Beachfront Park offers many fun activities including sunbathing, beachcombing, fishing, beach-driving, picnicking, wildlife watching, swimming, surfing, kitesurfing, windsurfing, bodyboarding, skimboarding, jet-skiing, surf-skiing, water-skiing, kayaking, canoeing, boating, parasailing, and wakeboarding. The water near Flagler Avenue Beachfront Park occasionally offers amazing surfing waves.  However, if you are planning to enter the water near Flagler Avenue Beachfront Park, we recommend being careful as the water here is known to have unpredictable rip currents. In addition, the presence of sharks has also been documented in the water near Flagler Avenue Beachfront Park. It is also important to note that Volusia County authorities may seasonally restrict surfing in the water near Flagler Avenue Beachfront Park (usually between the Saturday before Memorial Day in late May through Labor Day in September). If you are planning to surf in the water near Flagler Avenue Beachfront Park, we recommend visiting the "Surf zones" webpage Volusia County’s website for more information regarding the local surfing regulations. 

Depending on the time of the year, you can view many kinds of animals in the water near Flagler Avenue Beachfront Park including dolphins and sea turtles. Sea turtles also use the beach in Flagler Avenue Beachfront Park as a seasonal nesting spot between May 1 and October 31. Driving your vehicle on the beach in Flagler Avenue Beachfront Park is allowed. However, if you are planning to drive on the beach in Flagler Avenue Beachfront Park, please make sure that you adhere to the 10 miles-per-hour speed limit. In addition, we also recommend visiting Volusia County’s official website for more information regarding the local beach-driving regulations. In addition, please note that you also need to pay a fee for driving on the beach in Flagler Avenue Beachfront Park. Flagler Avenue Beachfront Park offers amazing Instagram-worthy views of the Atlantic Ocean, especially during sunrise and sunset.

If you like shopping, the nearby Flagler Avenue offers many amazing shops, restaurants, and bars. In addition, Flagler Avenue also hosts many fun events throughout the year including New Smyrna Beach Blues Festival and the NSB Shrimp & Seafood Festival.

Beach wheelchairs for visitors with disabilities are also available at the lifeguard station on Flagler Avenue Beachfront Park - these wheelchairs are available on a first-come-first-serve basis. Getting to Flagler Avenue Beachfront Park is easy - the park is located near the eastern end of Flagler Avenue, where a paid parking lot is also located.

There are many attractions near Flagler Avenue Beachfront Park. The New Smyrna Sugar Mill Ruins (more prominently known as the Cruger-DePeyster Sugar Mill) is a 17-acre historic site which has the ruins of an early 19th century sugar mill - the mill’s buildings were composed of coquina limestone and it was destroyed during the Second Seminole War. The mill is currently a part of the United States’ National Register of Historic Places. If you like golf, Hidden Lakes Golf club is a golfing facility which has a beautifully landscape golf course - this course offers a fun and challenging golf session. If you are looking for another attraction near Flagler Avenue Beachfront Park, Smyrna Dunes Park is a 184-acre recreational park which is present on the southern part of the Ponce de Leon Inlet. The park has boardwalks, a fishing pier, multiple beach areas, picnic areas, and restrooms - in addition, the park also has observation areas which offer fantastic Instagram-worthy views of the Indian River, Atlantic Ocean, and the Ponce de Leon Inlet.

If you get hungry, there are many great restaurants near Flagler Avenue Beachfront Park. The Garlic is an upscale Italian restaurant which offers a beautifully landscaped garden and it has a collection of artworks made from recycled objects. The restaurant also serves delicious pastas, seafood, salads, steaks, and burgers and it also hosts live music performances. The Breakers Restaurant is a waterfront restaurant that is set in a brightly painted building and it is famous for serving excellent burgers. The restaurant also serves delicious dishes for lunch and dinner including seafood, poultry dishes, salads, and chicken wings and it has also been praised by the Orlando Weekly newspaper. If you are looking for another good and affordable restaurant near Flagler Avenue Beachfront Park, Uncle Chicken’s is famous for its delicious barbecued pork ribs. In addition, the restaurant also offers amazing smoked macaroni-and-cheese, tacos, quesadillas, wraps, and salads.

If you are looking for a hotel near Flagler Avenue Beachfront Park, there are many great nearby options. The 4-Star The Salty Mermaid Oceanfront Hotel offers many amenities including a furnished terrace with a firepit, golf cart/ bike rental facilities, and private sunbathing cabanas. A more affordable hotel is the 3-Star SpringHill Suites by Marriott New Smyrna Beach which offers many amenities including a pool, a restaurant, a fitness center, and complimentary breakfast. If you are looking for another good and affordable hotel near Flagler Avenue Beachfront Park, the 2-Star Seahorse Inn is located conveniently close to some of the major landmarks in the city of New Smyrna Beach.