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Twenty-one miles of water an hour north of Houston, almost all of it fronted by private property. The trick is knowing which handful of places will actually let you in.
Two things put people off Galveston before they arrive: the colour of the water and the seaweed. Both have straightforward explanations, and neither is a reason to skip it.
For one month a year the city bans the things people bring to a beach. The rest of the year, six stretches of Broward coastline offer genuinely different days out.
A South Carolina city of 75,000 that deliberately built itself into a national sports destination, and kept its best two attractions free.
The free-entry national park charges for parking, the state parks charge for nothing, and the music sites are the expensive part. Here is the real cost structure of a Tennessee trip.
The lake on Provo's doorstep is under a swimming advisory for much of most summers. The canyon behind the city is not, and that is where the good days are.
Hungary is landlocked, so it built a coastline. Lupa Beach is a reclaimed gravel pit with imported white sand, and it is where Budapest goes to swim between June and August.
Every beach near Orlando is a drive. The question is which direction, and what you pay when you arrive, which ranges from nothing to $25 for the same afternoon.
