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Myrtle Beach
I f life is a series of moments, then making each one count should be high on the priority list—especially when on vacation. Myrtle Beach offers just that. Not only can you enjoy a beach day along the 60 miles of the Grand Strand, but you also have easy access to an enormous array of experiences all in one spot.
Here you can learn how to surf in the morning, play golf on a championship course in the afternoon, watch acrobats fly through the air and dine in a Michelin-recommended spot that evening. You can even watch a penguin help in a marriage proposal (yours or someone else’s).
This family-friendly, affordable South Carolina hot spot is also relatively easy to reach, so you can spend less time getting there and more time being there. Myrtle Beach International Airport offers more than 50 nonstop routes and connections in major cities like Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas and Denver.
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Located on a former tobacco plantation in Little River, La Belle Amie Vineyard offers cellar tours, tastings of its Twisted Sisters brand wines plus year-round music festivals. Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, Duplin Winery is known primarily for its muscadine wines. For $20 per person, you can sample at least eight preselected wines and choose one for a full serving.
Not to be outdone, the local spirits scene is livening up, too. The Twelve 33 Distillery (a reference to December 1933, when Prohibition ended) offers a selection of house-made spirits, which range from silver rum to spicy vodka—most are made with Carolina-sourced-ingredients. The distillery also houses a 1930s-era speakeasy, for maximal hideout vibes. Scheduled to open in May 2026, Ole Smoky Distillery and Yee-Haw Brewing Co. are set to open a joint distillery and brewery at Broadway at the Beach; the facility will include multiple bars, an indoor-outdoor beer garden, tastings and guided tours. It might give you the perfect moment for making new connections.
As a beach destination, Myrtle Beach has plenty of casual places to catch a bite. (In fact, there are more than 2,000 restaurants across the Grand Strand.) But if you’re looking to elevate your experience, look no further than O.A.K. Prime Kitchen and Bar, the only Michelin-recommended restaurant in the city. As the name implies, USDA Prime beef is on the menu, but so are items like New Zealand elk chops, Australian lamb chops, oysters Rockefeller and escargot. Smart casual or business casual is the dress code.
If you’re looking to break out your finest wear, head to The Library, where the staff are in tuxedoes. Chef’s selections on the menu include filet au poivre, twin lobster tails and steak Diane, which is prepared table-side. Leave room for the flambé desserts.
For a different sort of thrill, head over to WonderWorks, a science-focused indoor amusement park, where you can soar on a zip line, experience hurricane-force winds, lay on a bed of nails or design your own rollercoaster as part of its 100 hands-on exhibits. WonderWorks is easy to spot at Broadway at the Beach as the building appears to be upside down.
Ripley’s Aquarium is known for its immersive marine experiences, like its swim-with-the-stingrays programs and night-under-the-sharks family sleepovers, along with its 360-degree crawl tunnel in the 5,500-square-foot African penguin habitat. Kids may rave for years about having breakfast with a mermaid. But for something truly extraordinary, include Myrtle Beach in your magic moment by purchasing a proposal package. If you do, a diver in the shark tank or one of the resident penguins will help you pop the question in a most memorable way.
Myrtle Beach is known for its vibrant nightlife, so make live music and dancing part of your plans. While you're here, expect to see a bit of line dancing as well as the Shag, a partner dance involving twirls and fancy footwork—the official state dance of South Carolina. Done with a partner, it essentially entails mirroring each other's movements, with a lot of stepping forward and backward while switching your weight from one side to the other. Fat Harold's Beach Club and Duck’s Night Life, part of the historic Main Street area in North Myrtle Beach, offer Shag lessons for beginners.
If you want to learn another skill, head to Conway Glass. Housed in a historic building about 15 miles northwest of Myrtle Beach, it offers glassblowing classes a few days a week in addition to studio tours. You can purchase professionally made glass ornaments here as well. For more locally-made souvenirs, check out Pawleys Island Hammocks Shops. Home to 21 unique shops, you can find things like handmade hammocks, Lowcountry jewelry and homemade fudge.
Golf is a legendary pastime here, with more than 80 courses to choose from. Myrtle Beach National boasts three courses by the legendary Arnold Palmer, whose design shows off the area’s natural beauty (you’ll find everything from hardwood forests to Lowcountry wetlands). Designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr., Dunes Golf & Beach Club hosts the annual ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic, a PGA Tour event, in addition to the USGA Championships and national, collegiate and state events. Over in Murrells Inlet, the Tom Fazio–designed Tournament Players Club (TPC) of Myrtle Beach is an 18-hole championship course that lets you try your hand at one that golf legends have played.
If baseball is more your speed, the Myrtle Beach Pelicans recently unveiled a renovated ballpark with elevated comfort for fans and players. Improvements for those in the crowd include new seats throughout and significant upgrades to the sights and sounds of the video board.
Myrtle Beach has always offered an array of water sports, but they kicked it up a notch in 2016 when North Myrtle became host to Shark Wake Park, South Carolina’s first full-size cable water sports park. Adventures here include cable wakeboarding and kneeboarding, plus a floating obstacle course with slides and climbing towers. Another newer adventure is Seakart Adventure SC, which pairs the speed of personal watercraft with the comfort of a boat. The three-seater vessels zip through the water in Murrells Inlet while a professional lead boat guides the route. While you don’t need to have boating experience, you do need to have a valid driver's license to operate a Seakart.
Bounce along the water or soar through the air with Downwind Sails Watersports. Its two oceanfront locations help folks go sailing, parasailing and banana boating. If it’s surfing you’re after, get private lessons at Village Surf Shoppe, which has been helping folks in the area since 1969.
To really experience the heat, go to the Polynesian Fire Luau. This 2-hour show features dinner accompanied by a live Polynesian band, followed by dancing traditions from Hawaii, Tahiti, Tonga, New Zealand and Samoa. The finale features a performance by a World Champion Samoan fire knife team.
If you’re looking to cool down with a cold one, Myrtle Beach has you sorted, as the local craft breweries are ever-proliferating. Favorites along the Myrtle Beach Beer Trail include Grand Strand Brewing Company and Tidal Creek Brewhouse. Both spots are kid- and pet-friendly, and they offer up a great selection of small-batch brews. Veteran-owned Voodoo Brewing Co., located at Broadway at The Beach, has been serving craft beer and upscale pub food for more than 20 years.
Families with children of all ages may enjoy Broadway at the Beach, a massive entertainment complex that includes kid-friendly attractions, restaurants and nightlife. At its intimate Broadway Theater, you can catch Le Grand Cirque and their internationally acclaimed acrobats from late May through the end of the year.
One of the area's newest entertainment options, Greg Rowles Legacy Theatre in North Myrtle Beach has 800 seats for live music and variety shows. Famous in the Myrtle Beach area as an entertainer and musical performer, Rowles was even inducted into the South Carolina Entertainment & Music Hall of Fame in 2020. Its newest show, “Music & Memories” is a mixture of live performances and stories about popular music, featuring a different genre each month.
Myrtle Waves Water Park is the largest in the state with 22 slides, pools and play areas. It's open mid-May through September and also provides accessibility features like a zero-depth entry wave pool and an accessible pool chair. Its sister park, Broadway Grand Prix Family Race Park, has seven unique go-kart tracks, two 18-hole mini-golf courses, an arcade, a bungee ride, bumper cars and rock climbing. The park is open through December.
There’s more mini golf where that came from; after all, this is the "Mini Golf Capital of the World." There are more than 30 courses with themes ranging from dinosaurs (Jurassic Golf) to pirates (Captain Hook’s Adventure Golf). Try something new at PopStroke, which combines mini golf with traditional golf, using synthetic fairways and tricky bunker shots in its two 18-hole putting courses.
Barefoot Resort | credit: Jim Maggio
Ripley's Aquarium
The Library
Downwind Sails
Myrtle Waves Water Park
Broadway Grand Prix Family Race Park
PopStroke
Downwind Sails Watersports
Tournament Players Club (TPC) of Myrtle Beach
Myrtle Beach National | credit: Jim Maggio
Greg Rowles Legacy Theatre
Broadway Theater
Ripley's Aquarium
WonderWorks
O.A.K. Prime Steakhouse (left); The Library (right)
Polynesian Fire Luau
