9 Best Things to Do in Vero Beach
Located on Florida’s Treasure Coast between Melbourne and Palm Beach is a coastal community that’s one of the state’s best laid-back vacation spots. In the early 1700’s, a Spanish treasure fleet wrecked off the Vero Beach shoreline during a hurricane attracting English pirates who recovered the loot. Coins from those ships continue to wash ashore to this very day.
Vero Beach was first settled in the late 1800s with Vermonter Henry T. Gifford often receiving the credit for being its modern-day founder. He planted pineapples, helped build the Dixie Highway and was the community’s first postmaster. His wife Sarah is believed to have suggested the name “Vero” for the settlement. In Latin, the word means “to speak the truth.”
Flash forward to the war years of the 1940s when Vero was home to a Naval Air station and training exercises were performed just off the coast. Not long after the war’s end, some of the buildings on the property became the core of Dodgertown, the spring training facility for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Today, Vero is known for its breathtaking beaches as well as being a haven for golf, water sports and fishing. On this episode, we show you 9 of the best things to do in Vero Beach, Florida.