If you're planning a trip with your little ones to Myrtle Beach, you'll find a variety of kid-appropriate activities to choose from. The South Carolina sunshine, long stretch of beaches and various creeks and rivers all provide a playground for some great kids' activities. When you're not enjoying the area's natural attractions, the city offers other adventurous amusements.
Beach Activities
Myrtle Beach offers more than 60 miles of beaches where you can build sand castles, wade, swim and ride the waves with your little ones. If you're looking for some fun in the water without the sand, check out any of Myrtle Beach's water parks. Each has something to offer for kids of every age, from Bubble Bay for younger ones at Myrtle Waves Water Park to the free-fall cliff dive at Wild Water and Wheels. Several parks also boast speed slides and lazy rivers.
Watersports
Myrtle Beach offers a myriad of watersports. Kid-friendly skimboarding and bodyboarding are common at the beaches, and if you're looking for a longer excursion, the area offers sailboating, kayaking, banana boat rentals and scuba diving. You also can take the kids ocean or bay fishing. Myrtle Beach even hosts an annual competition, the Grand Strand Fishing Rodeo, where entrants of all ages enter their catch to receive patches, stickers and cash prizes. There's no minimum age, and Outstanding Young Anglers awards are given to kids in an 11-to15-year-old group and a 10-and-younger group.
Myrtle Beach State Parks
If you're looking to take your kids on the ultimate outdoor experience in Myrtle Beach, check out some of their local state parks. Myrtle Beach State Park has beaches, more than 350 campsites, fishing sites and cabin and picnic facilities. This park, founded in 1935, offers opportunities to venture out on your own on various hiking trails, or you can visit the nature center and attend one of the many educational programs at the activity center. Huntington Beach State Park also offers many campsites, nature trails, a lagoon and salt-water marsh.
Wildlife Amusement
Myrtle beach also offers various opportunities for you and your little ones to explore animals and wildlife. The Ripley's Myrtle Beach Aquarium has a reef exhibit and a 750,000-gallon tank filled with sea turtles, sharks, stingrays and other exotic sea life. There's also a petting station and babies exhibit where kids can get a firsthand look at the aquarium's baby sharks, seahorses and other newborns. To get a look at some scaly creatures, look no further than the Alligator Adventure. You and your kids can attend educational talks and feeding demonstrations of various alligators, crocodiles, pythons and other reptiles. The facility also houses a serpentarium with rare snakes.
Bike Rides
For some scenic exercise, take your kids on a bike ride or bike tour of Myrtle beach. Various shops rent bikes of various sizes for hourly and daily rates. The strand of beaches have several hike-and-bike trails. While the entire length of some of these may be too long for younger children, you can ride a short section of a trail (like the one from Myrtle Beach to Ocean Isle).
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