Crescent Beach(Biltmore Beach)

If you get hungry, there are many great restaurants near Crescent Beach. Raintree Restaurant is an upscale restaurant that is set in a beautiful 19th-century building. This restaurant serves amazing gourmet dishes with the Mediterranean, Asian, and American culinary influences. In addition, this restaurant also has been awarded Wine Spectator magazine’s Award Of Excellence and OpenTable’s Diners’ Choice awards in 2016. Redfrog & McToad's Grub-n-Pub is a popular restaurant that has a casual ambiance and vivid decor. This restaurant’s menu features an interesting variety of regional and international dishes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner including seafood, sandwiches, Irish dishes, pizza, soups, salads, barbecue ribs, and pastas. If you are looking for another good and affordable restaurant near Crescent Beach, Smokin' D's BBQ serves an excellent variety of barbecued dishes.

If you are looking for a hotel near Crescent Beach, there are many great nearby options. The 4-Star Hammock Beach Golf Resort & Spa offers many amenities including a fitness center, two golf courses, a spa, a water park, multiple restaurants, a marina that offers equipment rental facilities and cruises, and a children's camp. A more affordable hotel is the 3-Star Guy Harvey Resort St. Augustine Beach that offers many amenities including rental facilities for watersports equipment and beach chairs, a shopping store, a pool, a tiki bar, a restaurant, a fitness center, and poolside cabanas.  If you are looking for another good and affordable hotel near Crescent Beach, the 2-Star Quality Inn & Suites St Augustine Beach Area offers many amenities including a pool, guest laundry facilities, and complimentary breakfast.

Crescent Beach has lifeguards on a seasonal basis. In addition it also has restrooms, showers, a pavilion, and picnic tables. A vehicular access ramp for Crescent Beach is also available for visitors near Cubbedge Road.

Crescent Beach offers many fun activities including sunbathing, biking, beachcombing, wildlife watching, horse-riding, picnicking, fishing, beach-driving, swimming, snorkeling, diving, surfing, kitesurfing, windsurfing, skimboarding, bodyboarding, paddleboarding, kayaking, canoeing, jet-skiing, surf-skiing, waterskiing, boating, and parasailing. If you are planning to enter the water near Crescent Beach, we recommend being careful as the water here is known to have unpredictable rip currents. Depending on the time of the year, you can view many kinds of animals in the water near Crescent Beach including sea turtles and manatees. If you are planning to fish in the water near Crescent Beach, we recommend following the local fishing regulations. Crescent Beach is an excellent spot for beachcombing as it is known to have a lot of shells. You can drive your vehicle on Crescent Beach for a fee daily between March 1 and August 31. In addition, you can also drive your vehicle on this beach on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays during September. If you are planning to ride your horse on Crescent Beach, please note that you need a permit for doing so. You can visit St. Johns County’s website for more information regarding the local beach driving rules and the local horse-riding regulations.  Crescent Beach is ideal for those looking for a quieter beach experience as this beach sees fewer visitors than other St. Johns County beaches.

Getting to Crescent Beach is easy - the beach is situated just south of the intersection between Florida State Road A1A and Florida State Road 206. A parking lot is also present nearby.

There are many attractions near Crescent Beach. Fort Matanzas National Monument has an 18th century fortress named Fort Matanzas and it also protects a variety of local habitats including salt marsh, scrub, and maritime hammocks. You can explore the park’s vibrant biodiversity through the nature trails present here. In addition, Fort Matanzas also hosts interesting historical re-enactments, along with musket demonstrations on Wednesdays and Saturdays between 12:30 pm and 3:30 pm.  The national monument’s headquarters and& visitor center is located nearby and has exquisite National Park Service Rustic-style architecture. This center was built in 1936 and is listed in the United States’ National Register of Historic Places. The Florida Agricultural Museum has interesting exhibitions regarding Florida’s agricultural history. In addition, the museum also focuses on conservation of unique and local varieties of livestock including the rare Florida cracker cattle, sheep, and horses. The museum has equestrian trails and it also offers horse riding lessons. In addition, the museum also hosts interesting educational programs. If you are looking for another attraction near Crescent Beach, Marineland of Florida (also known as Marineland and Marineland Dolphin Adventure) is a marine mammal center which has interesting exhibits showcasing a large variety of marine wildlife including sharks, dolphins, and sea turtles. The center also serves as a research center focusing on dolphins and conservation of marine life and offers a variety of interactive and fun animal demonstrations and shows, along with informative lectures and educational programs.