PHOTO TOUR: the MOST relaxing fall trip we can recommend
Here’s your Friday getaway:
Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, AL
Drive time from Nashville: 7.5 hours
This trip is perfect for travelers:
who believe that salt water views are 100% life changing.
Where to go
Gulf Shores and Orange Beach is a small community with surprising offerings. When you visit in the fall, you can find great deals on beachfront condos or hotels. Another perk of fall beach travel: the summer crowds are gone!
A 7.5 hour drive South will take you here.
How about this morning view?
I wish every restaurant had sandy floors and no walls like this spot at the Flora-Bama Yacht Club.
Where to eat
We love recommending Gulf Shores and Orange Beach to foodies because there are so many options to enjoy!
Here are 12 insider tips to some of Gulf Shores’ best restaurants
Toes in the sand make everything taste better. The grouper sandwich and the peel-and-eat-shrimp at the Gulf was no exception.
What is there to do?
Lots. Seriously, you can hang at the beach and relax. Or you can keep busy with a variety of local attractions! It’s never boring at the beach.
Isn’t every sunset a gift?
You haven’t lived till you eat a hush puppy with blueberry-pepper jelly at Luna’s in Gulf Shores and Orange Beach.
Want a full-service resort experience at the beach?
We can highly recommend this spot.
Prefer a beachfront hotel?
Check this one out! The breakfast is amazing…AND FREE every morning.
A continental breakfast with omelettes and French toast!
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