Amelia Island is one of the better known vacation destinations in Northeast Florida. Amelia Island Plantation offers residents an exclusive lifestyle in a gated community with access to resort amenities, including 3 championship golf courses, tennis, spa facilities and some of the finest beaches on the First Coast – or for that matter, just about anywhere!
Amelia Island Plantation is a wonderful example of how luxury living with all the amenities can be harmoniously blended amidst a stunning natural setting. Centuries-old Live Oaks, the majestic maritime forest, salt marshes, the intercoastal waterway and the beauty of the Atlantic Ocean are there to greet you and accompany you each and every day. Other more animated neighbors include loggerhead turtles, hummingbirds, snowy egrets, purple sandpipers, great blue herons, ospreys and bald eagles. The community is truly a nature lover’s paradise.
Just outside the gates of the Plantation is the nearby community of Fernandina Beach, a historic and picturesque Victorian seaport village. Wandering the 50-block district of carefully preserved homes and buildings will transport you back to another time of pirates, smugglers, gunrunners and shrimpers – Fernandina Beach is in fact considered the birthplace of the American shrimping industry. Make sure to visit or stay at the Florida House Inn, the oldest surviving hotel in Florida (built in 1857), and Palace Saloon, Florida’s oldest pub.
As the Northernmost Atlantic Coast Florida resort community, Amelia Island Plantation is ideally situated for exploring both Northeast Florida and coastal Georgia. Nearby Cumberland Island in Georgia is the country’s largest wilderness island, with inhabitants that include deer, bobcats, and wild horses. Only 300 visitors are permitted on the island each day, so best to plan ahead!
