Why this ride
Repeated coastal bends, headlands and frequent viewpoint stops. It also links naturally to St Augustine historic district.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Florida A1A Scenic and Historic Coastal Byway starting at Ponte Vedra Beach
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 132 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 55
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Access context
Check seasonal gates, park access and state 511 notices before publication. Specific flag: hurricane; congestion.
Seasonal context
Oct-Apr
Scenic road chapters
Florida A1A Scenic and Historic Coastal Byway
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 89 km this is Florida A1A Scenic and Historic Coastal Byway, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 89 km
- Named road
- Florida A1A Scenic and Historic Coastal Byway
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Ponte Vedra Beach
The beach at Ponte Vedra is a wide band of pale sand that drops gently into the Atlantic, backed by dunes with sea oats and low scrub, and the coast road behind it, State Road A1A, runs for miles in a sequence of palm trees, big houses and glimpses of the water. It is an affluent place now, with golf courses, tennis clubs and gated communities, and home to the headquarters of the PGA Tour and the TPC Sawgrass course, where the Players Championship is played each year and the par-three seventeenth hole sits on an island green that has humbled the best golfers in the world.
Read the complete Ponte Vedra Beach write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Ponte Vedra Beach sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Flagler Beach.
2. Flagler Beach
Flagler Beach is what much of the Florida coast used to be like. The little town stretches along a narrow barrier island between the Atlantic and the Intracoastal Waterway, with a long, broad beach of hard-packed sand, low buildings, a pier and a laid-back, unhurried feel that the high-rise resorts to the south left behind long ago. The population is about five thousand, and it is a place where people still walk to the beach, fish from the pier and eat at small seafood restaurants. State Road A1A, the coastal highway, runs right along the shore, with the sea on one side and the town on the other, and it is one of the most relaxed roads in the state.
Read the complete Flagler Beach write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Flagler Beach comes up 56 km in. Next is Ormond Beach.
3. Ormond Beach
Ormond Beach is a small city with a big place in the history of going fast. Early in the twentieth century the hard-packed sand here, together with its neighbour Daytona to the south, was where the world's first speed records on wheels were chased, long before anyone thought of building a speedway. Henry Flagler's railway brought the winter crowds, and his grand hotel in town drew millionaires; John D. Rockefeller wintered a short walk from the shore in a house called The Casements. A motorcyclist rolling in today is following a very old tradition.
Read the complete Ormond Beach write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
132 km in you reach Ormond Beach.