Local gems worth getting to know.
Mims sits about 15 minutes inland from Canaveral National Seashore—close enough for a morning beach walk and back for lunch, far enough to avoid the traffic funneling into Cocoa Beach or Port
Mims sits at the edge of one of Florida's most active migratory corridors. The Indian River Lagoon, less than five miles east, funnels thousands of shorebirds, warblers, and raptors through here twice
Mims sits about 15 minutes inland from Canaveral National Seashore—close enough that it's your last stop for gas and groceries before heading to either Playalinda or Apollo Beach. If you're coming
I've spent enough Saturday mornings driving through Mims—a town of about 8,000 people sitting just inland from the Indian River—to know it's not a destination in the way Cocoa Beach or Port Canaveral
Mims sits in that useful pocket of Brevard County where people live quietly, work at the port or in agriculture, and eat where they know the owner. This is not a restaurant tourism destination. There
Mims sits about 20 miles south of Melbourne on US 1, inland from the Indian River and the developed Space Coast. What distinguishes it from surrounding towns is not what happened there, but what