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New Smyrna Beach Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels

city in Volusia County, Florida, United States

About New Smyrna Beach

New Smyrna possesses a distinct hometown quality reflected in its cracker architecture, lush subtropical landscape and community. You can spend the afternoon enjoying fresh seafood to steaks and pasta on the waterfront, or under an umbrella at a sidewalk cafe, and then retire to a bed and breakfast inn, family-size condominium or oceanfront hotel at the end of the day. For the more curious tourist who is willing to explore the city, however, New Smyrna Beach has a more varied culture that exists away from the resorts along the shoreline. It's a community on the borderline of town and city with a diverse and unique history, from its unusual founding as a colony for Mediterranean Islanders andGreekRomanosto its post-Civil War African-American community, fame as the origin of painter and TV s

Top Attractions in New Smyrna Beach

Explore the best things to see and do in New Smyrna Beach:

  • Arts on Douglas
  • Atlantic Center for the Arts
  • Detwiler Park Tennis Center
  • Disappearing Island
  • Doris Leeper Spruce Creek Preserve (County)
  • Fish the Mosquito Lagoon
  • Flagler Avenue Park
  • Galleria di Vetro

Where to Eat in New Smyrna Beach

Must-try local food and restaurants:

  • 🍴Bistro 424
  • 🍴Blackbeards
  • 🍴Boston's Fish House
  • 🍴Chases on the Beach
  • 🍴City Market Bistro
  • 🍴Corkscrew

Where to Stay in New Smyrna Beach

  • 🏨Atlantic Plaza
  • 🏨Beachcomber Motel
  • 🏨Best Western Beach Hotel and Suites
  • 🏨Black Dolphin Inn
  • 🏨Blue Heron Motel
  • 🏨Buena Vista Inn & Vacation Apartments

New Smyrna Beach Travel Guide Sections

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