Vero Beach, Florida is a city in Indian River County, Florida.
It is a Principal City of the Sebastian–Vero Beach Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is home to 130,000 people.
Vero Beach may be best known as the location of Dodgertown, where the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team held their spring training camp from 1948 until 2008 when it moved to a new facility in Glendale, Arizona.
Vero Beach is known for its outstanding beaches. Part of Florida's Treasure Coast, the beaches combine excellent sand quality with significant surf and tidal action.
Vero's main public beach is known as South Beach, accessible at the eastern end of Causeway Boulevard, State Road 656. It is a very large, guarded beach that is used for sports. There are two volleyball courts and plenty of space to play other sports.
Another public beach is Humiston Park, in Vero's Central Beach Business District. Humiston is a guarded beach that is suitable for families with small children. They have a big playground for the kids to play on and boardwalks for parents to roam.
Jaycee Park is adjacent to Conn Beach which is guarded and has a boardwalk extending southward approximately 2/3 of a mile along Ocean Drive. Jaycee Park has about 15 pavilions all with barbecues. It has a small playground for kids and a long boardwalk that is perfect for exercise.
Vero Beach also has numerous other public access trails and walkways permitting beach access. The unguarded beach between Conn and Humiston is frequently used by skim boarders, fishermen, and occasionally by surf boarders although the surf is rarely high enough for extensive surfing.
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