Where to Stay in Daytona Beach, Florida

What is Daytona Beach known for?

The Daytona Beach Boardwalk and the sand beside it explain most of the traffic through the city, and the Fun Coast name attached to this run of Florida says the rest. Volusia County holds the shore. Away from the water the Museum of Arts and Sciences, the Halifax Historical Museum and The Art League of Daytona Beach supply the indoor half of a stay, while Jackie Robinson Ballpark keeps baseball near the middle of it.

Daytona Lagoon adds the water park.

What are the main landmarks in Daytona Beach?

The Daytona Beach Boardwalk carries the amusements along the front, and Daytona Lagoon adds a water park behind it, the pair accounting for much of what the city offers outdoors. What remains of the city sits indoors. The Museum of Arts and Sciences and the Halifax Historical Museum cover collections and record between them, while The Art League of Daytona Beach keeps a gallery of its own.

Listed houses include the Mary McLeod Bethune Home, the Howard Thurman House, the Amos Kling House, the Delos A. Blodgett House and Rogers House. Jackie Robinson Ballpark, the Basilica of St. Paul, The Abbey and the Tourist Church round out the roll.

What is the history of Daytona Beach?

The city dates from 1870. It grew as a resort on the coast of Volusia County, and the visitors who made that trade possible left their mark in the Tourist Church, in the boardwalk along the sand and in the houses now kept as landmarks. Names survive on those houses.

The Amos Kling House, the Delos A. Blodgett House and Rogers House stand for the earlier residential city, while the Mary McLeod Bethune Home and the Howard Thurman House are preserved for the people attached to them. Record-keeping followed. The Halifax Historical Museum holds the documentary past and the Museum of Arts and Sciences the collections, giving Daytona Beach two institutions where a visitor can read the place rather than only walk it.

Sport and worship each left a building. Jackie Robinson Ballpark carries a name known well beyond Florida, and the Basilica of St. Paul, The Abbey and the Tourist Church mark congregations that grew alongside the resort trade. The Art League of Daytona Beach came out of the same civic impulse, and the Daytona Beach Boardwalk still fronts the sand that started all of it.

Where is Daytona Beach?

Daytona Beach lies on the East Coast within Volusia County, the ocean along its whole seaward side and the built-up ground of the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach metropolitan area spreading back from the sand. Sixty-seven square miles in all. Ormond Beach continues up the same shore, and the Fun Coast label covers this run of coastline.

The sea sets the outer edge.

What is the climate of Daytona Beach?

The ocean does the moderating here. Sea air off the East Coast keeps the summer heat a shade below what the inland towns of Florida record, and the same breeze pushes the afternoon storms of the wet months back out over the water. Winter is the dry season.

Mild bright weeks then bring the most comfortable stretch of the year to the sand at Daytona Beach.

How do you get to Daytona Beach?

Volusia County roads carry most arrivals, and the coastal route links Daytona Beach with Ormond Beach along the same shore. The beach itself runs parallel. Inland the built-up area reaches toward Deltona, so the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach metropolitan area describes the practical catchment as much as an administrative one.

Everything in the city is a short drive from the boardwalk.