Myrtle Beach Gets an Inner Beach Makeover | Eastern North Carolina Now

    But the sunsets are still an exquisite thing of beauty.

    The middle of Myrtle Beach gets a makeover, which includes a new boardwalk and promenade that traverses 1.2 miles in the heart of the Redneck Riviera. The new Boardwalk and Promenade, with the construction completed in May, 2010, begins near the eastern end of 2nd Avenue and then negotiates through the waterfront property of the older hotels that remain near the southern end of the concrete padded Promenade section that initiates the walkway, and then the actual boardwalk, in various designed configurations, which meanders along the front of the commercial district north from near the eastern termination at the shoreline of the Atlantic Ocean of 8th Avenue to its conclusion at the 14th Avenue Pier.

    The recently completed Myrtle Beach Boardwalk and Promenade was selected the 3rd best in the United States by National Geographic and was also picked number two by Travel & Leisure Magazine. The project cost over 6.4 million to construct, with the project using these materials to complete its construction:

770,000 board-feet of lumber
555,000 screws
300,000 nails
600 palmetto trees
50,000 beach grass seedlings


    Near the center of the Myrtle Beach Boardwalk and Promenade around the 8th Avenue monolith marker: Above. Looking north, we see the Myrtle Beach Business District: Below.

    The wide boardwalk fronting the Commercial District bottlenecks into a wide boarded ramp that fronts the waterside of the newer hotels that precede the 14th Avenue Pier, which is near the conclusion of the northern end of the boardwalk: Above and below. The preceding pictures were taken on Saturday morning, January 29, 2011. The 14th Avenue Pier, like the 2nd Avenue Pier, also has a classy restaurant, Pier 14 Restaurant and Lounge.

    Click here for a enlarged view of northeastern South Carolina.
    The next morning, Sunday 30, 2011 was another rare, unseasonably warm morning, so we made our way back to the Myrtle Beach Boardwalk and Promenade. Before we started the 1.2 miles trek up the boardwalk, I stopped for a few pictures at the Family Kingdom amusement park near the southern end of the boardwalk at the 1st Avenue and Ocean Blvd. intersection. The park was closed, but it made for some unique pictures this morning: Above and below.

    Trains are a big part of this Amusement Park, and this is one of them: Above. High-rise hotels and condominiums are the norm along the Redneck Riviera: Below.

    The 2nd Avenue Pier has an abbreviated pier portion, which was destroyed by Hurricane Hugo in 1989, and subsequently rebuilt at a suspected shorter length: Above and below.


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