South Beacon Boulevard & Taylor Avenue Area

You wake up here and the beach is a four-minute drive away—not something you think about, just something you do on a Tuesday afternoon. Coffee and breakfast are steps from your door, and the stretch itself sits quietly residential despite being ringed by nearly two hundred restaurants within a mile, which means dinner options that don't feel like you're leaving the neighborhood. Grand Haven Area Public Schools serves the area, and Duncan Park—one of the largest remaining sections of old-growth forest in the lower peninsula—is a short walk if you want to disappear into trees instead of hitting the shops and galleries downtown.