Playalinda, which begins at the junction of State Road 402 and the Atlantic Ocean, near Titusville, has room for 1,100 vehicles. About 300 parking spaces are available at Apollo Beach on the north end, seven miles south of New Smyrna Beach on State Road A1A. Early morning is the best time to get here, especially on summer weekends when the lots fill up fast. The seashore is popular, and when the limited parking areas are full, the gates swing shut and no additional visitors are admitted. The park charges no admission, but there are some restrictions. That means hauling everything you need several hundred yards from the parking lot to the beach, reached over boardwalked dunes that are covered with sea oats and palmettos. If you are going to drink cold drinks, play on a raft or have a bite to eat, you've got to truck it in yourself. The beaches of the Canaveral National Seashore - which include Apollo, Playalinda and Klondike - might not prove as convenient as ''motorized'' beaches.
The Canaveral National Seashore, which includes beaches from south of New Smyrna Beach to Titusville, is one of the last of the Florida wildernesses. What you'll find here are pristine beaches of large-grained sand, heaped into dunes like Mother Nature intended - untainted by car exhaust and unleveled by bulldozers. No cars on the beach, no places from which to rent rafts or buy sodas, no pier parties, no looming condos, no surf shops, no motels or lights.
But that's part of what keeps the 23 miles of pure Florida so unique. There are plenty of no-nos at the pristine beaches of Canaveral National Seashore in Brevard County.
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