If you've ever stood on a tee box with the Atlantic crashing somewhere behind you, you already know why golfers keep coming back to this coast. The stretch from Maine to Florida is packed with courses that look like postcards and play like a dream. Some of these places host the pros every spring. Others are quiet favorites where you can grab a tee time, a great dinner, and a comfy bed all within a short walk. The best golf resorts on the East Coast hand you all of that in on

If you grew up thinking Georgia was all peaches and traffic on the way to Florida, the lakes will surprise you. Tucked into the Blue Ridge mountains up north and spread across the warm flatlands down south, the best lakes in Georgia range from cold, clear mountain water to sprawling reservoirs full of bass.

The East Coast is full of places that feel completely different from each other, even when they're only a few hours apart. You can wake up in a snowy mountain town in Vermont and end the day on a warm beach in Florida if you really wanted to.

Image Source The East Coast has a way of hiding its best stuff in plain sight. While everyone else is fighting for a beach chair in Myrtle Beach or waiting two hours for a table in Cape Cod, there's a whole string of quieter places most travelers drive right past. Some are tiny islands you can only reach by ferry. Others are old fishing villages, mountain towns, or barrier beaches where wild horses still outnumber the cars. They're not secrets to the locals, of course. Just t