What beach in sarasota florida made the top 10 list?”
Hamptons hoi polloi probably assumed it was always No. 1. Coopers Beach, with pristine white sand gently sloping toward a shoreline of lapping waves, convenient parking and amenities and nary a gum wrapper in sight, has been selected as America’s best beach in an annual survey released today to coincide with the start of the summer vacation season. “New York has world-class beaches, but I don’t think a lot of people in the United States know about them,” said Dr. Stephen Leatherman, director of Florida International University’s Laboratory for Coastal Research. Known by the moniker Dr. Beach, this is Leatherman’s 20th year of compiling a list of the country’s top 10. This year’s list includes two beaches in Florida, and Leatherman said he was not worried about pollution from the oil spill affecting those locations. Siesta Beach in Sarasota took the No. 2 spot on the list, and Cape Florida State Park in Key Biscayne was No. 10.
Florida once again landed two beaches on the Dr. Beach list of the best beaches in the nation. Coming in at No. 2 for a second year in a row is Siesta Beach near Sarasota. Rounding out the top 10 is Cape Florida State Park in Key Biscayne. Earlier this month, the man known as Dr. Beach, Dr. Stephen P. Leatherman, Director of Florida International University’s Laboratory for Coastal Research, had said he was considering a beach in the Florida Panhandle for his top 10, but could not add it this year because of the threat of damange from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Still, Florida represented well again on the annual list, although the overall winner this year was in New York – Coopers Beach in Southampton. The rest of the top 10 are Siesta Beach, followed by Coronado Beach in San Diego, Calif., Cape Hatteras in the Outer Banks in North Carolina, Main Beach in East Hampton, N.Y., Kahanamoku Beach in Waikiki, Oahu, Hawaii, Coast Guard Beach in Cape Cod, Mass., Beachwalker Park in Kiawah I
Tampa (2010-5-28) – Stephen Leatherman, also known as “Dr. Beach”, has included two Florida beaches in his annual top ten beaches in the country — but the BP oil blowout led him to exclude Florida Panhandle beaches. Knowing what he knows now, he says he would reconsider. “Actually, not a bit of oil has come ashore there, and we’re feeling much better about it. We don’t see any real weather patterns to push it there, the only wild card, of course, the hurricanes,” he said. The two Florida beaches on the list are Siesta Beach in Sarasota at number two, and Cape Florida State Park in Key Biscayne, Florida at number ten. Since they’ve already been named number one in previous years, Fort De Soto and Caladesi Island have been retired from contention.
