Surfside BeachThe self-styled "Family Beach" of the Grand Strand — two miles of stilted beach cottages between Myrtle Beach State Park and Garden City, anchored by the rebuilt Surfside Pier

Surfside Beach is the Grand Strand's smallest incorporated town — two miles of strand wedged between Myrtle Beach State Park and the unincorporated Garden City Beach line. The town trademarked itself "The Family Beach" in 1985 and wrote the brand into municipal code: a strict three-story building cap that keeps high-rises off the strand, no-glass-bottle and no-thong-bathing-suit ordinances on the sand, and a recycling-pickup program rentals participate in by default. The 870-foot Surfside Pier at 11th Avenue South was the town's center until Hurricane Matthew destroyed it in 2016; it reopened in November 2019 with a tackle shop, snack counter, and the only public ocean-deck restaurant on the southern Grand Strand.

Our rentals run from low-rise oceanfront condo complexes — Sea Cloisters II at the north end, Surfside By The Sea, the Hermitage, Cape Coddages, Sea Cloisters, the Sealofts — to the stilted three-story rental houses that line Ocean Boulevard and the side streets running back to Surfside Drive. Most include shared pools and direct dune-walkover access to the strand. Surfside is one of the Grand Strand towns that allows golf carts on side streets, which is half the appeal for the families who come back every summer.