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Motorcycle Road Trips In North Florida: Jax Beach To Fernandina

With bike week just around the spot, bikers from all over the country are pulling their motorcycles out of coldness storeroom and cleaning up their leathers in anticipation of a motorcycle meeting like no other. While Daytona is definitely the place to be the week of March 5th, Florida offers some great stretches of path through perfect landscapes to some great courier destinations.

About an hour and a half north of Daytona on A1A falsehood the busy sand commune of Jacksonville Beach, which is where we will encounter for the onset of our road voyage- because, well, that’s where I’m from! On any given day you’ll find bikes and bikers parked and execution out at the Jax Beach Pier parking lot. Just across the road is the famous biker bars Mango’s, a great place for bikers to meet, have some good home cooking and wound some assemble. Summer weekends will usually find some gloomy metal stripe performing scarce on the roofed deck. So put on your best leather motorcycle jacket and come on out to Mango's to launch our first north Florida road outing.

Our first day voyaged will opening from Jax Beach and proceed north on A1A to Fernandina Beach, a pretty little island civic with its own exclusive thoughts. If you trail A1A north, after behavior left at Mayport Naval Station, you will be cruising through the marshlands at the insolence of the St. Johns River and come to a finished end at the convey in Mayport Village. A traditional fishing village, this is where most of north Florida gets their seafood. Shrimp boats, partaker boats, and hidden sea charters line the port, and you can even take a betting cruise from here. If you’re hungry, there’s an old wood cabin session on the water that serves some of the best seafood presented. Singletons are not much to look at, but it’s been there forever and people urge for miles to sit on the water enjoying the freshest of Florida seafood, while scrutiny the pelicans sponge for theirs.

Taking the transport across the river, you’ll once again pick up A1A heading north. To your right you’ll rapidly see a mammoth empty sandbar the northern jetties fashioned that at the entry of the St. Johns. On the eastern creep are the jetties, the Atlantic Ocean, and seashore that are packed with babes of all shapes and sizes. The western flank has a pond and the Fort George River fjord. A very broad beach at low wave, vehicles have been swallowed up and swept away by the Atlantic because of people parking just a little too close to the water, and pleasing a stroll in the dunes. A great place for jet skiing, swimming, fishing and surfing, Huguenot Park also has a campground with primeval and RV camp sites and showers.

For the next some miles, you will be cruising through some of the most faultless and innocent everglade in Florida. Island hopping through little and big Talbot Islands and the Timacuan Preserve, this coastal field is one of the few in Florida unharmed by development, and will theoretically remain that way. Flora and Fauna abound, and spirit lovers group to the theme in kayaks and flatboats to cross the waterways in hunt of trout and redfish.

Heading across the Nassau Sound Bridge to Florida’s northern most barrier island, the developments once again start to pop up. World renowned option Amelia Island Plantation has limitless acreages of condos, single family houses, an Inn rivaled by nothing, and a huge convention heart that draws selling from all over the world. A community within itself, the Plantation strives, and has done a good job, of preserving the natural locale.

Not to be bested, the Ritz Carlton is just a few miles north and is also a lure for the well to do, with a golf course and all the pampering the Ritz is known for!

Almost there, we take A1A into downtown Fernandina Beach. An old fishing village like Mayport, Fernandina is much bigger and has many single and historical buildings. The waterfront is stippled with shrimp boats and untold sea charters, and Brent’s is the restaurant on the docks. Fernandina Beach also hosts a yearly shrimp festival on the first weekend in May.

Ending our motorcycle detour from Jacksonville Beach (about an hour non rest), our last stay is a very accepted watering cell for bikers and locals alike. The Palace Saloon has been there since 1878, and although it burned in 1999, it has been restored to its first 18th century timber décor. More of a bar than a restaurant, this is where you get to know the locals, many of which are in the hospitality industry and definitely know how to faction resilient! With live bands, dancing, flirting and drinking, the Palace Saloon is the place to someone in Fernandina Beach!

In my next road tour article we’ll leader south on A1A to our nations oldest city. Founding by Ponce de Leon in 1513 and home of the fountain of youth, this place is just a tiny little drinking city with a fishing quandary!