The Gold Coast (Florida) Fort Lauderdale Boca Raton and Palm Beach

 The Gold Coast (Florida)

The Gold Coast (Florida): The 70-mile (113km) long Gold Coast north of Miami offers half a dozen vacation resorts favored by those escaping the winter rigors of New York, New England, the Midwest, and Canada. Hotels and condominiums gleam white across wide, palm-tree-lined boulevards that border spotless beaches.

Fort Lauderdale:

The peak moment of madness in this town is the month-long Easter vacation when sun-starved students from the north descend. Early evening, teenagers cruise the bumper of their car to bumper up and down the AlA 'Strip' along the seafront. Although cheap flights to the Ba- Hamas mean\ Fort Lauderd ale is not as cramped and crazy as it used to be, you still may choose to stay here at a different time. In summer and winter, the town settles down, as private boats and yachts drift along with the network of inland waterways past elegant marina homes. The best way to view them is to take a paddleboat cruise.

 The Gold Coast (Florida)

Boca Raton:

This elegant town is the winter home of a highly regarded polo club, but you can also enjoy the wonderful beaches tucked behind the dunes. Or rent a rod and pretend to fish off the rocks around the inlet. If you must be active, go birding or hiking around Deerfield Island Park, once the home of Chicago mobster Al Capone.

Palm Beach:

The place that put the 'gold' in the Gold Coast. (The palms in Palm Beach are said to have grown from coconuts spilled in a Spanish shipwreck.) The town was created after oil and railroad magnate Henry Flagler were persuaded at the end of the 19th century that Florida's warm winters made the state a viable proposition for his railroad expansion. At the same time as the railroad was being built down the Gold Coast, the secluded location of Palm Beach struck Flagler as just the kind of place for his kind of person. Now one of America's wealthiest communities, it stretches its splendid palazzi along Ocean Boulevard, not far from the proprietors' yachts in the harbor.

You can catch glimpses of these opulent residences as you wind through the impeccable- by landscaping. Flagler's own home is on Coconut Row, a white marble palace named Whitehall is now the Flagler Museum (tel: 561-655-2833; www.flaglermuseum.us). It's 55 opulently restored rooms trace the town's early history amid elegant old furnishings, including the master's private railway car. The Norton Museum of Art (tel: 561-832-5196; www.norton.org) has a splendid collection of French I'm-impressionists and post-Impressionists.

 The Gold Coast (Florida)

Palm Beach rules: 
In wealthy Palm Beach, it is against the law to park almost anywhere, to own a kangaroo or any other exotic animal, or to hang a clothesline. Tourists are tolerated in this mainly residential town, as long as they keep a low profile.
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