Daytona Beach is home to the world’s Most Famous Beach and boasts white sandy beaches that stretch both north and south for 26 miles. It is a year-round resort area, home to Embry Riddle, Bethune Cookman College, Daytona Beach Community College, and Keiser College Daytona Beach Campus, centrally located between Jacksonville, Orlando and Melbourne.
Historically known for its motor sports, both Daytona International Speedway and the old Daytona Beach Road Course have hosted races for over a century. Daytona could accurately be called a seasonal town, with large groups of out-of-towners descending upon the city for various events, most notably Speedweeks in early February when over 200,000 NASCAR fans come to attend the season-opening Daytona 500.
 Daytona is also the home of the Daytona Cubs, a minor league baseball team of the Florida State League, the NASCAR Pepsi 400 race in July, Bike Week in March, Biketoberfest in October and Black College Reunion in March and April. In the past Daytona Beach catered to college students on spring break, but in recent years many have migrated to other sites.
Daytona Beach is located roughly at the southern end of the traditional South, so its culture has remained somewhat Southern, but due to mass immigration from Northern states, it is in many ways more similar to South Florida. The architecture and style of its older homes and buildings and the culture and speech of its older, locally-born inhabitants leaves no doubt as to its cultural Southern roots.
The city of Daytona Beach is split in two by the Halifax River, part of the Intercoastal Waterway, and sits on the Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered on the north by Holly Hill and Ormond Beach and on the south by Daytona Beach Shores, South Daytona and Port Orange. The major highways that serve the city are the east-west Interstate 4 and the north-south Interstate 95, which intersect near the city. Other major roads in the city include US 92/International Speedway Boulevard, US 1/Ridgewood Avenue and A1A/Atlantic Avenue.
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