Public laws: Miami Beach and other cities have laws against drinking in public, and the beach is as public as you can get. Several beaches in Central and North Florida permit alcohol on the sand.

Baltimore County’s Miami Beach Park, closed to swimmers last July because of high bacteria counts in its Chesapeake Bay waters, won’t re-open to bathers at all this year because of a different problem ...

Travelers go to Miami mainly for Miami Beach and they go to Miami Beach mainly for South Beach, the region's unrivaled crown jewel, which visitors say they can't get enough of. Here, the art deco ...