Air Travel Discount
Links of interest for your travel plans
Fort
Walton Beach
Located on the Florida
Panhandle’s Emerald Coast, Fort Walton Beach was voted one of
America’s Top 10 places to live. Fort Walton Beach
is home to just over 22,000 making it a small town community with big
city ambitions. Fort Walton Beach was charted in 1937, but
the area has a long history. There were thriving Indian
communities here between 600 and 1650. Even notorious pirates
like Billy Bowlegs inhabited Fort Walton Beach between 1500 and
1800. Fort Walton Beach is a part of Okaloosa County, Florida.
Fort Walton Beach got its name from the Walton Guards who set up a camp
there during the Civil War. Before that, Fort Walton Beach
was known as Brooks Landing, named after John Thomas Brooks who settled
there with his family in 1868.
Fort Walton Beach has always been a destination spot for visitors since
its beginning. Travelers arrived in Fort Walton Beach from
all parts of the East Coast and the Midwest, not to mention its
attraction even for neighbors from the southeastern United
States. They came to Fort Walton Beach for its hospitality
and service. Fort Walton Beach became famous for its water
pavilion where tourists danced the night away. However, what
Fort Walton Beach did best and still does, is offer a relaxing
lifestyle.
You may be asking yourself why Money Magazine gave such high honors to
Fort Walton Beach as a prime spot to live. The city of Fort
Walton Beach has always focused on providing its citizens with
community centers. When the existing Brooks Bridge was built
in 1964, Fort Walton Beach officials built parks and other recreational
facilities, using new tax dollars to make Fort Walton Beach even more
desirable. This trend in Fort Walton Beach has not stopped.
The city of Fort Walton Beach is always reaching forward to the future
to keep it one of the best cities in America. Business is
important to any community and Fort Walton Beach is no
exception. The local Chamber of Commerce of Fort Walton Beach
has a motto: “Balancing Business with Beautiful
Beaches”. Now doesn’t that sound like a
good reason to check out Fort Walton Beach?
Here is how the Chamber describes the weather.
“Fort Walton Beach features long, warm, sunny summers, and
brief mild winters. Warm winds from the Gulf of Mexico help
keep the climate moderate year-round. The average high
temperature is 63 degrees in February, 84 degrees in May, 90 degrees in
August and 71 degrees in November. There are on average 343
sunny days per year in Fort Walton Beach”. And if
you are thinking of moving to Fort Walton Beach, the Chamber can help
you with your relocation plans.