Welcome to Ormond Beach

Ormond Beach and its neighbor, Ormond-by-the-Sea, are naturally blessed with some of the most pristine shoreline in Volusia County. With the possible exception of Ponce Inlet, its dune fields are the healthiest in the area. The sand has a different texture and color than Daytona. Its reddish brown hue comes from the wearing down of an offshore coquina reef and is most pronounced in the spring and summer. The particles are larger and less easily packed, making beach driving impossible on all but a small portion of Ormond Beach.

Ormond Beach has three miles of shoreline, with county provided dune crossovers at 14 public beach accesses. Amenities at the beach accesses include concessions, seasonal lifeguards, restrooms, picnic tables and showers. Ormond-by-the-Sea, located two miles north of Ormond Beach, lays claim to 2-1/2 miles of beach and provides 16 separate public beach accesses. The accesses offer amenities similar to Ormond Beach, except no concessions are available. Just inside the limits of Ormond-by-the-Sea is a roadside curiosity, a battered old observation tower left over from World War II. It's the sole survivor of a series of towers that rimmed the coast from Florida to North Carolina. They were used to spot German U-boats in anticipation of a Nazi invasion of the U.S. mainland.