Fort Walton Beach

An Older Beach Community with lots of Affordable Resorts and Family Pastimes

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The Destin Bridge crosses East Pass to Fort Walton Beach, an older beach community with lots of affordable resorts and family pastimes. To get between the two towns, you pass through one section of Gulf Islands National Seashore, a dramatic landscape of drifted blinding white sand that often puts northern visitors in mind of snow. On the Seashore's bay side, a public access makes a popular recreational spot for boaters, water-skiers, wave runners and parasailers.

Beach shops, lively bars, go-kart tracks, batting cages, amusement parks, watersports concessions and beach accesses line the beach's main drag on Fort Walton Beach's Okaloosa Island. The Boardwalk is an energetic center of activity with restaurants, clubs, the town's fishing pier, beach volleyball and the classic Florida's Gulfarium, entertaining families with flipping dolphins and comical seals since 1955. The island road ends at the entrance to Eglin Air Force Base, inaccessible to civilians.

On the mainland, separated from the island by the wide and beautiful Choctawhatchee Bay, Fort Walton Beach's livelihood as a military town becomes more evident, especially at U.S. Air Force Armament - all about weapons and aerial fighting machines. Downtown comprises a few square blocks along the bayfront with perky little shops, a hometown park, a 17-foot-tall Indian mound and accompanying museum, and the Emerald Coast Science Center, a hands-on haven for kids. For more information contact Emerald Coast Convention & Visitors Bureau, Inc. at 850-651-7131 or email emeraldcoast@co.okaloosa.fl.us.

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