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Daytona Beach
   Daytona Beach is located on the Atlantic Coast in Volusia County, Florida. Daytona Beach is a year-round resort area known for it's wide beaches and as a destination for young beach goers especially college students on spring break. Daytona Beach is also famous as the home of NASCAR and the Daytona International Speedway and the large bike festivals held each year, the Daytona Bike Week and Biketoberfest. These seasonal events greatly increase the number of tourists in Daytona Beach which is quite active with tourists year round
   There are a number of other beach towns near and adjacent to Daytona Beach. Many are quieter and cater as much to Central Florida residents as tourists These include New Smyrna Beach, Edgewater, Port Orange and Ormond Beach.
   The Daytona Beach area has a large variety of activities and entertainment. While Daytona Beach is famous for its beaches and motor sports, the area also offers plenty of shopping, nightlife, festivals and other cultural events and is very popular with family vacationioners visiting nearby Central Florida attractions such as Disney World, Universal Studios and Seaworld near Orlando.
   Water is everywhere in the Daytona Beach area. In addition to sunbathing, surfing and swimming at the beach, visitors will find access to kayaking, parasailing, "banana boat" rides, airboat rides, casino ship cruises and even a scenic riverboat excursion. Freshwater and saltwater diving and snorkeling are also found in the Daytona Beach area. The area has shipwrecks and the popular rock-ledge reef for divers.
   There is plenty of Florida wildlife for sightseers to enjoy from dolphins off the shore to large water birds such as pelicans and cranes. Sightseers will also find many beautiful estates along the Atlantic Ocean and Intracoastal Waterway.
   Daytona Beach has some of the best fishing in Florida. There are several annual fishing tournaments including the Daytona Beach Striking Tournament in May. Offshore fishing is offered by a fleet of deep-sea fishing crafts departing daily from the Ponce Inlet marinas and there is inshore fishing along the flats and estuaries of the of the Halifax and Indian Rivers.
   As of 2006, the city of Daytona Beach had a population of 64,421 while the the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach metropolitan area had a 2006 population of 496,575. The city was founded in 1870 and named for its founder, Matthias Day. The separate towns of Daytona, Daytona Beach and "Seabreeze" merged as "Daytona Beach" in 1926 and became known as "The World's Most Famous Beach."
   Daytona Beach is located at the southern end of the Southern culture in Florida. The architecture of its older homes and accents of its older, native born residents are reminders of its Southern culture while increasing migration from Northern states makes the Daytona Beach area very diverse.

John F. Kennedy Space Center
   Of all the sights and attractions in Florida perhaps nothing will last longer in the memory of a visitor to Florida than to see the actual lift off of a rocket hurling astronauts or a satellite into space. This is where it all began. From America's space exploration pioneers like Alan Shepard and John Glenn to Apollo 11's landing on the moon to the space shuttles of today and future missions to Mars and beyond, Florida's Kennedy Space Center is America's space port.
    The Kennedy Space Center occupies the large expanse of land on Florida'a Atlantic coast known as Cape Canaveral. Titusville is the nearest town and just across the Indian River, part of the Intracoastal Waterway system, from the Kennedy Space Center. From Titusville you can have a great view of a launch from any street in town. You can actually see the launches on a clear day from anywhere in Central Florida but if you like, NASA offers admission to a special viewing area for the public which is as close as anyone is allowed to get and plenty close enough!
   NASA offers tours of the Kennedy Space Center facilities through a private tour company. The tours include all the historical items and rockets associated with space travel and NASA's past exploits into space as well as plenty of educational attractions for adults and kids alike. You can even arrange to eat lunch with an actual astronaut, all for a price of course, but unlike the nearby theme parks, this attraction is for real.

Airports Serviced:

Daytona Beach International Airport (DAB) - is a public county-owned airport located 3 miles southwest of the central business district of Daytona Beach, adjacent to the Daytona International Speedway.

Melbourne International Airport (MLB) - is a public airport located within the city limits of Melbourne, in Brevard County, Florida on central Florida's Space Coast.

Beaches
   The East Central Region of Florida has some of the best known and most popular beaches in the state. In addition to Daytona Beach, there are over a dozen public beaches on the Atlantic coast of Central Florida with over a hundred miles of sand and surf. Cape Canaveral, appearing on a map of Florida as a large bump on the Atlantic coastline, separates the accessible beaches to the north and to the south by about an hour long drive. Beaches to the north of Cape Canaveral are hugely popular with young people whereas beaches to the south of Cape Canaveral such as Satellite Beach and Indian Harbour Beach have a small town feel. Lovers of Florida's flora will notice the first signs of coconut palms and sea grapes just below the Cape in Cocoa Beach. Yes, this is the town which was the setting for the 60's sitcom and an annual 'I Dream of Jeannie' look alike contest is held each year in nearby Melbourne.
   The cape itself is part of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center and is off limits to beach goers. However, just north and adjacent to the NASA property is the Cape Canaveral National Seashore, the second longest stretch of wild and undeveloped seashore in Florida. Only Santa Rosa Island in the Florida Panhandle has more miles of untouched beach front property. Cape Canaveral National Seashore is 22 miles of beach with not a condo in sight. If you enjoy crowds this is not the place for you. Much of the beach is only accessible by boat or hiking.
   Just south of Cocoa Beach is another government facility with preserved undeveloped beach. Only 4 miles long, the beach front property along Highway A1A is part of Patrick Air Force Base and totally undeveloped. There are very good public parking and restroom facilities available. A short walk over the dunes and through the sea grapes reveals a very private stretch of beach mostly frequented by the occasional airman and his date rather than throngs of college students.

Motor Sports
The Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida, is a major Central Florida attraction and a favorite destination for racing fans. Races include the Daytona 500 held in February, the Firecracker 400 held in July and the Daytona 200 motorcycle race held during Bike week in March. The Daytona 500 marks the final race of the 16-day event known as Speedweek where an estimated 200,000 fans pack the seats and field within the 2.5-mile oval track. Daytona International Speedway is also home to NASCAR, the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing. NASCAR fans refer to the Daytona 500 as 'The Great American Race.' It is also the richest of the NASCAR races with a strong tradition and a colorful history of races won by legends of the sport.
Racing in Daytona began on the wide, smooth, compacted sands of Daytona Beach in 1902, as pioneers in the automobile and motorcycle industry tested their new inventions. Over the years, the Daytona beaches became a mecca for racing enthusiasts and the beach course was replaced in 1959 with the Daytona International Speedway. Automobiles are still permitted on the beach, although not for racing. When parking on Daytona Beach, be careful where you park during low tide as your vehicle may be quite wet when the tide returns.

Bike Festivals
If you're a biker, you know about Daytona Bike Week. Daytona Bike Week, held each March, is actually 10 days long covering two consecutive weekends and the weekdays in between. However Bike Week just sounds a lot better than Bike Week and a Half. What you may not know is which biker gathering is the world's largest, Daytona's or the annual Sturgis Rally in South Dakota. The Sturgis City Rally Department on Sturgis.com reports the 2006 Rally official attendance at 456,968. That's a lot of motorcycles! However, when it comes to calculating the attendance at the annual Daytona Bike Week, city and county officials, the tourism business community and everyone else with any authority on the matter have just given up! All estimates put the figure at between 500,000 and 600,000 bit no one is keeping official numbers. It's like trying to count heads on Mardi Gras Day in New Orleans. It's just that crazy! During Bike Week bikers are everywhere in Central Florida. Large numbers of bikers can be seen riding the local roads and highways all the way to Crystal River on the other side of the state! Each October, Daytona Beach holds the Biketober Fest, a shorter, scaled down version of Bike Week but still plenty of food, drink, entertainment, leather and Harleys.