ST Augustine Area attractions?

[Bella the Ball 360]

Has anyone ever spent a day in St. Augustine? We drive down and were thinking of seeing maybe some of the historical sites and maybe going on a ghost tour at night then continuing on to Orlando.
Any suggestions for restaurants as well as sightseeing would be appreciated.

 

[PixieMagic]

A couple of years ago, I drove down for the day while at WDW. It was great. I parked at one of the trolley tour parking lots and paid for the tour, it included admission in to several museums. Then all I had to do all day was ride the trolley from one place to another while the trolley tour pointed out all sorts of points of interest. I highly recommend the trolley, I would think it might be hard to park in many of the places and to see everything on your own. Also, when I left St Augustine, I drove up to the lighthouse and then drove the coastal highway back to WDW (for a while.) Really, beautiful. I stopped somewhere near Daytona and walked the beach and watched cars get stuck in the sand. Loved it.

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

Thank you. We have been to WDW so many times and next year we are going to schedule a couple of extra days to explore around the area. I did not even realize you could take the costal road! We have tried to do one new thing each year.

 

[KimOhio]

we stopped last June it was great they have a light house you can climb to the top of and look out and a really cool fort you can tour we also liked walking down the beach. We will stop again when we go down next summer

 

[nowellsl]

Definately do the ghost tour - we did it a few years ago and it was a lot of fun. You could spend most of the day touring the fort and the old city. Lots of tourist shops in downtown. If you get tired of that there's a great factory outlet shopping center outside of the city with a Beall's (sp?) outlet mall across the street. There's a state park (Anastasia State Park) nearby that's nice. Then there's always the beach!