The 500 miles of coastline along the northern edge of the Gulf of Mexico is home to some beautiful beaches, much of it located on barrier islands. Many people who visit the Deep South states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama take vacations that combine the beaches with noteworthy cities and attractions inland. Hundreds of thousands of tourists each year enjoy a Gulf Coast city and beach holiday; will you be one of them?
If you have more time, consider driving south on Interstate 95 through the Carolinas and Georgia down to Florida and explore some of the Sunshine State's 1,350 miles of gorgeous coastline.
Nearly 500 miles of Atlantic coastline can be found in the states of South Carolina and North Carolina, and the cities in the Carolinas are fun to combine with a beach vacation.
Massachusetts offers some of the most intimate and luxurious beach destinations in the country, at places like Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket, which you can combine with nearby Boston.
California is the Golden State, and its coastline stretches for almost 900 miles along the Pacific from Oregon to the border with Mexico and boasts beautiful beaches along the way.