New Smyrna Beach City of

It’s beautiful and relaxing
Spent my day there by myself but while I was there I turned on some worship music and sang to my Lord then I read and studied the word of God! Felt so close to God in those moments!
The sand was beautiful and clean and white! the beach was so beautiful and the waves were tossing and turning! you could hear the sound of the ocean waves it was amazing!

Albeit the shark bite capital of the world (or so I’m told) my family has been visiting and enjoying this beach for my entire life. Calm, relaxing, and most definitely family friendly. My mother, sister and I also love all of the little shops on Flagler if we’ve maybe had a little too much sun. New Smyrna beach is definitely a place I can see myself bringing my own kids someday.

Love NSB — My Wife and I own A home on The Beach Side, and Enjoy The Beauty Of it all at least Once a Month.

This place has little to no diversity, kinda a ‘let down:(old, dirty, filled with dirty, old houses and old dirty people

I love this great little town! The beach is FANTASTIC!!! The waves are fairly large, so being a body board! In the city area, there’s some GREAT eats such as That’s Amore, and The Garlic! And the ice cream here is AWESOME! Some places we visited were Treats On The Beach, Mango Tango (frozen yogurt, but tastes like ice cream!), and S’mores! All in all, I love the city, beach, food, and most of all, the WEATHER!!! Such a great place!

This is a great small town with a great beach. On our trip here, we almost thought time had stood still, or we had been transported back to the 60’s. We saw things that we haven’t seen in years, the small roadside mom and pop motels on US 1 for example. The one street downtown looks largely unchanged since it’s origin. The Dairy Queen looks like it was built in the fifties. That stuff is all nostalgic and very cool. The beach is beautiful and very easy to access. This is a very nice place to visit.

I love this beach, I’m a florida native and this is probably one of my favorite beaches on the easy coast.
I LOVE beaches you can drive on. This beach is clean (much better than Daytona Beach!) and I really hope people watch where they are driving so they don’t ban beach driving for the rest of us :)
Clean beach, no alchohol allowed though. It’s beautiful when the sun is going down, the sky lights up over the ocean, the intercoastal is awesome too!
If you fish, I’m sure you already know this, but fishing on this beach is awesome, it’s so close to the jettys you’ll never know what you’re gonna bring home for dinner :)

I love this beach, and this area. Growing up in Miami, I am well acquainted with the beaches of South Florida. I have seen everything from Hollywood Beach, Naples, South Beach, Biscayne Bay, all the way down to Key West. However, the best beach experience I have had, has been at New Smyrna. The sand is powdery soft, the majority of the people that go to this beach are families not creepy nudists, bikers, and Speedo wearing tourists. I also love the fact that you can drive or park ridiculously close to the beach, so if you are one of those said families that have to haul a lot of stuff you don’t have to spend an hour unpacking the car, and hauling the stuff to the sand. Until I moved to Central Florida I had never seen anything like this before at any other beach I’d ever been to.
However, as cool as it is to be able to park on the beach, if I were a parent it would SCARE me. I’d be afraid of my kid running off and getting run over by one of those annoying SUVs or Trucks. Hence my reason for not giving New Smyrna 5 Stars.

The town of new smyrna beach is really cool. It’s colorful, friendly, laid back and got that rustic ocean vibe, which makes the town really easy to walk around.
The beach not so much… you can DRIVE on this beach! HAHA it’s not that uncommon I hear, but it was my first experience being on a beach with cars and I was totally disturbed like an ocd man who gets on a subway.
1. I was sooo grossed out by the sand
2. sunning time gets disturbed by obnoxious engines and giant gmc/​ford suvs.
3. Seriously, driving on the beach is like walking on your bed wearing muddy boots…
4. someone can actually steal your stuff and drive away.
I did enjoy the water, florida has great water, it’s always so warm, it was very shallow and the waves were beginner style which made for relaxing leisurely swim.

This town rocks. The people are friendly, the beach is so beautiful and the laid back atmosphere is made for love…
The town has preserved the beach town atmosphere by supporting local businesses, you won’t find a ton of chain restaurants and the boutique shopping on Flagler is great.
I know I moved to the right place because of other peoples’ reactions when they see that I live here. There’s always a mix of envy and glee in their eyes with the words, ‘New Smyrna Beach’