Palmetto Dunes Plantation is an 1800 acre beach, golf, tennis, marina vacation resort with two miles of shimmering ocean beach. Palmetto Dunes also features outstanding homes and villas. There are three residential communities behind separate security gates. The beach access is private. The Marriott and Hilton Hotels are beachfront.

There are three 18 hole public courses, separately designed by George Fazio, Arthur Hills and Robert Trent Jones. Palmetto Dunes tennis complex features 23 clay and 2 hard courts with memberships available to Palmetto Dunes Residents. Shelter Cove Marina, located across the parkway has 175 slips as well as shops and several fine restaurants.