Despite overdeveloped beach and lined with cookie-cutter hotels, Clearwater Beach attracts visitors because of the incredible white sand beaches, a large fishing fleet and its proximity to Tampa and St. Petersburg. It is also one of the best locations for kayaking, shelling, biking and sunning on the beach - only to amounts that the local "attractions". Unless you expect to beach volleyball at Clearwater Beach, which is pretty darnalso good.
This northernmost barrier island located about 22 miles north of St. Pete Beach, 2 miles west of downtown Clearwater (a separate location on the mainland) on the Memorial Causeway (Hwy 60). From here the road to the south S Gulfview Blvd, and north is to draw Mandalay Ave, Clearwater important. Pier 60 is located right at the roundabout, where these three roads meet. From Saint Petersburg, it's about a 1 / 2 hours drive or 1 1 / 2 hours bus ride. Although crowded, is the extent of the island humane(only 3.5 miles long) and it is easy to circumvent.
- Pinellas Trail
This 47-mile paved bike path, built on the abandoned CSX railroad track, extending from St. Petersburg to Tarpon Springs. Until now, it is the longest urban trail in the country. It is also very smooth - enough for in-line skates or roller skates and bicycles smooth. There are many stops along the way, with cafes, pubs, bike shops, skate shops and fast food places. As there on the route of the old railway, whichCorridor bisects far carnied grounds: sometimes you're in the middle of downtown, partly along water courses, sometimes with orange trees, and sometimes practically riding through the backyards of the people.
From Clearwater Beach International Youth Hotel, which rents bikes, head across the street and head north on Fort Harrison Ave and east on Jones St. about three blocks. You get the southern end of Clearwater to Tarpon Springs section of the path. It is13.2 miles from Jones St to Tarpon Ave.
