Luxury Hotels On Amelia Island

Balance The Beach With Fernandina

The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island sits behind dunes on the Atlantic coast. An oceanfront base puts that landscape at the centre of the stay. It is a different choice from an address selected primarily for frequent restaurant outings and time among town streets.

Walk Fernandina's Civic Streets

The Nassau County Courthouse on Centre Street gives a historic-town walk a specific architectural landmark. Completed in 1891, the brick Italianate building has a prominent clock tower. Nearby civic architecture reflects Fernandina's development as a railroad town and county seat. This part of the visit suits an interest in the town's built fabric, with its public buildings supplying subjects around a meal or a browse through the streets.

Consider The Golf Course's Actual Setting

The Golf Club of Amelia Island lies beside the Ritz-Carlton. Designed by Mark McCumber and Gene Littler, its front nine passes among established oaks, while marshes and more water shape the back nine. The distinction matters to a golfer choosing an island stay: the sporting landscape includes wooded fairways and wetland edges as well as proximity to the ocean.

The sixteenth is a par three with marsh around the green. The fifteenth brings marshes into both the tee shot and the approach-or-layup decision. Those holes give the round a placement and water-carry interest, making course design a more useful reason to consider this base than a general promise of coastal golf.

See A Different Kind Of Shore

Boneyard Beach on Big Talbot Island, beyond Amelia's southern bridge, introduces a separate coastal landscape. Erosion has cut back wooded bluffs and left fallen trees along the sand. Salt and sun bleach the trunks, while the remaining roots and timber help break up wave energy. It is a shoreline for an interest in coastal landforms and the relationship between forest and sea. The eroding bluff and driftwood make it a different outing from time on the resort's open Atlantic beach.

The Florida destination guide places Amelia's northeastern Atlantic setting within a wider state journey.