Myrtle Beach

South Carolina’s Grand Strand — blue skies, sun-bleached sand and golden sunshine, curling breakers, gentle breezes and laughing gulls. The extraordinary natural beauty of this coastline has attracted visitors for nearly a century.

It’s hard to break away from the pleasures of being at the ocean’s edge — but so much awaits you in the city and the other towns that dot this nearly 60-mile-long stretch of real estate sandwiched between the Intracoastal Waterway and the wide, blue Atlantic. From Little River to Pawleys Island, you’ll find scores of restaurants, dazzling nightlife, incomparable shops, amusements galore for all ages and more. And you can read all about it here in the online version of The Insiders’ Guide^®. 

Most people think of the Grand Strand as the coast of South Carolina; technically The Strand is an island with a 60-mile oceanfront and three roads connecting it to the mainland (four, if you count U.S. Highway 17 connections in both the North and South strands.) Surrounded on the north and the west by the Intracoastal Waterway, a Roosevelt-era shipping lane, the east by the Atlantic Ocean and the south by Winyah Bay, the Grand Strand can be basically shut off from the outside motoring world by closing four bridges.