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Hard-packed excitement.

A typical beach day in this area could include biking on the sand, riding first-rate waves or surf-fishing. Find secluded shores in quiet beach towns including Ormond-by-the-Sea. Or hit Daytona Beach - the center of this region's action - where you can sun, surf, swim and then stroll along the old-fashioned boardwalk and fishing pier.

Ponce Inlet's beach features Lighthouse Point Park, which has nature trails and an observation tower. And New Smyrna Beach, with its beautiful and hard-packed white-sand shores, is notable as being one of the few places where beach driving is still allowed at certain times.

Though the races moved to Daytona International Speedway in 1959, the beach is where it all began. More than a century later, the sand is just as smooth, compact and driveable (look for access point along Atlantic Avenue). While you're there, do the Daytona classics - surf the Atlantic, and take the sky ride at the boardwalk - then check out the newer, colorific Ocean Walk Village for souvenir shopping and refreshments.

Wherever you go in Daytona Beach, you'll be reminded that NASCAR headquarters are here, particularly during speed-inspired events, such as the Daytona 500 (early February) and the Coke Zero 400 (July). Other engine-inspired happenings include Bike Week (late February through early March) and Biketoberfest (October).

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