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Myrtle Beach Welcomes You To The Grand Strand |
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Weather : Ocean Drive Live Web Cam: Faces of The Grand Strand Myrtle Beach Grand Strand is Myrtle Beach's Ultimate Online Directory and Travel Guide for hotels, motels, shopping, recreation, fishing, restaurants, night life, real estate, services and much, much more for the entire Grand Strand, from Little River to Georgetown.
Myrtle Beach Grand Strand will help you make the most out of your vacation. There is something for everyone! If it's an action packed day of boating, jet skiing, kite boarding or parasailing you're after or just relaxing in the sun, pool or shopping we've got you covered! Click here for Things To Do Myrtle Beach beat out exotic locales such as Waikiki and St. Thomas in a recent online poll of favorite beaches. Conducted by Yahoo! Travel and National Geographic Traveler, the survey of more than 2,200 travelers ranked Myrtle Beach No. 1 in the U.S. ! The Travel Channel named Myrtle Beach the nation’s Best Family Beach. The Internet search engine Lycos.com placed the Myrtle Beach area No.1 on the 2005 list of summer travel destinations most often researched on the Web site. The Myrtle Beach area is No. 2 on the list of top destinations for summer vacations in the United States, according to the most recent AAA survey. Birthplace of Wheel of Fortune star Vanna White, MYRTLE BEACH HOME OF THE GRAND STRAND is a brazen splurge of seaside fun, an unmitigated stretch of commercial development twenty miles down the coast from the North Carolina border at the center of the sixty-mile "Grand Strand." Predominantly a family resort, it's packed fit to burst during mid-term vacations with leering, jeering students in fluorescent beachwear – if you've seen the movie Shag, you'll know what to expect. Fans of crazy golf, water parks, factory outlet malls, funfair's, fishing, sailing, banana boat rides, jet skiing kite-surfing and parasailing will be in heaven, and the beach itself isn't bad. The widest stretch is at North Myrtle Beach, a chain of small communities among which Ocean Drive is the center. South of Myrtle Beach lie Murells Inlet, a fishing port with lots of good seafood restaurants, and Pawleys Island, a secluded resort once favored by plantation-owners and today retaining a far slower pace than its neighbors. Between the two on Hwy-17 is the beautifully landscaped Brookgreen Gardens (summer daily 9.30am–9.30pm; rest of the year 9.30am–5pm; $8.50; tel 1-800/849-1931), a former rice and indigo plantation with an outdoor display of American figurative sculpture, and the setting for many of Julia Peterkin's novels of gullah life. There's also a wildlife sanctuary, where you're likely to spot alligator and deer, and an hour-and-a-half boat tour around the area. |
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