Some fine beaches - busiest at weekends - lie just a couple of miles from the Old Town. Across the bay, St Augustine Beach is family terrain, with some good restaurants and a fishing pier, but the Anastasia State Recreation Area (daily 8am-dusk; cars $4.25, cyclists and pedestrians $1) on Anastasia Island offers a thousand protected acres of dunes, marshes and scrub, linked by nature walks. North of Old Town (take May St, off San Marco Ave), the broad orange Vilano Beach pulls a younger crowd.

St Augustine's beaches

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