Playalinda Surf Guide

Playalinda Surf Guide

The pristine, sandbar-laden national park known as Playalinda is salvation for the Titusville surfing community -- which is segregated from the rest of Brevard's breaks by the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. With plenty of sandbars to enjoy, there is little local vibe to fear. New Smyrna Beach is nearly as easy to get to and consistently better, so it draws most of the travel traffic, leaving Playalinda to Titusville locals, and visitors seeking a casual change of pace.

Although it's slightly punchier than Cocoa Beach, Playalinda isn't all that different from the rest of Central Florida. Despite being on the north side of the Cape, the angle is essentially parallel to the southern beaches, so it doesn't provide any new wind/swell combinations. However, if the Cape is blocking a N swell from hitting southern beaches, Playalinda becomes an excellent alternative, especially when it's blowing SW. Like the rest of the state, tides are a matter of what the bottoms are doing from month to month or day to day, but it's still less of a mushburger than the Cocoa Beach breaks. As always, an incoming tide packs the best punch.