St. Augustine Beach, FL

St. Augustine Beach is a small city on Anastasia Island in St. Johns County, just across from historic St. Augustine. Its boundaries run along the Atlantic Ocean and State Road A1A, so the beach is not just a feature but the organizing fact of the place. The city is residential and visitor-oriented, with oceanfront parks, hotels, restaurants, and access to the Anastasia Island branch of the county library system. It offers the beach-town side of the St. Augustine area without being the old colonial downtown itself.