Area Information:
Surfside Beach and Garden City Beach are on the Atlantic Ocean in the heart of the Grand Strand. With miles of pristine South Carolina beaches, excellent services, temperate climate, many restaurants and attractions nearby, Surfside Beach and Garden City Beach are popular places to vacation.
With more than 200 sunny days and a temperate year-round climate, the Surfside Beach and Garden City Beach areas are a paradise for beach goers, offering endless hours of swimming, and other sun and sand favorites. Sports enthusiasts will fall in love with our 108 (and counting) championship golf courses. Fishing opportunities abound, whether you prefer to stay on land and cast off from one of the seven piers that line our coastline, or take the deep-sea challenge through one of the Grand Strand's many fishing charters.
Myrtle Beach Information:
Families began vacationing in Myrtle Beach (originally called New Town) more than a century ago, making their way from inland locales by horse & buggy, and then ferrying over the Waccamaw River to reach the undeveloped coast. Oceanfront development began in the early 1900s. Myrtle Beach became a town in 1938 and a city in 1957. Landmarks include the Myrtle Beach State Park, Myrtle Beach Convention Center, and Broadway at the Beach. Myrtle Beach has a population of nearly 23,000 and is the largest and most developed community of the Grand Strand, with hundreds of hotels, restaurants, attractions, retail stores, and other businesses.
When most people think of 'vacation' and 'beach,' Myrtle Beach is what they have in mind, even if they've never been there. Nothing more than a barren expanse of dunes and brush before this century, over the last 50 years it has exploded into one of the country's premier vacation spots. It's no wonder why either.