10 Unspoiled U.S. Beaches Thanks to your tax dollars, there are still beaches free of condos, concrete and t-shirt shops. These remainders of paradise have been preserved in public parks.
By Morris Dye
For purists, the best beaches lack any commercial or residential development — no oceanfront hotels, no seaside restaurants, no boardwalk amusements. These secluded, unmolested places are tough to find in an age of rampant coastal development, but we tracked down 10 beaches in the United States where the surf, sun and sand remain unaltered. Guess what? They're almost all national or state parks and wildlife refuges, where government protection has kept the bulldozers at bay.
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