Easy Florida beach towns: Vero Beach — experience.usatoday.com

Visualize a spot about halfway between Cape Canaveral and West Palm Beach. That's Vero. The main part of the town is west of the Indian River Lagoon while the beaches, which stretch from Wabasso in the north to Fort Pierce Inlet in the south, are on the barrier island that fronts the Atlantic Ocean. Florida's Atlantic beaches are tan, not white, the sand is more coarse and the waves a bit rougher — in other words, real ocean beaches.

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