Florida's most popular beaches: Top 9 hotspots on this list have millions of Instagram posts
Most Floridians know that tourists and visitors tend to gravitate toward some beaches more than others, packing out some strips of sand around the state and leaving others nearly untouched by anyone but locals.
Westgate Cocoa Beach Resort recently analyzed more than 500 beaches around Florida's ample coastline and counted the number of Instagram posts attached to the top three hashtags for each beach to find the most and least Instagrammed beaches in the state.
Here's Westgate's lists of the quietest and most touristy beaches in the Sunshine State.
According to the data Westgate collected from Instagram, Miami's South Beach is (unsurprisingly to Floridians) the most Instagrammed beach in Florida, with more than 9 million posts under the most popular hashtags for that beach.
Palm Beach in Palm Beach County, home of President Trump's private residence and club, took second place. Clearwater Beach, around 40 minutes away from Tampa by car, took third place.
Here's Westgate Cocoa Beach Resort's list of the top 10 most Instagrammed beaches in Florida and how many posts each beach has:
South Beach (Miami Beach), Miami-Dade County, 9,087,000
Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, 6,213,000
Clearwater Beach, Pinellas County, 1,792,000
Daytona Beach, Volusia County, 1,638,000
Panama City Beach, Bay County, 1,131,400
Pompano Beach, Broward County, 1,120,900
Sunny Isles Beach, Miami-Dade County, 1,097,000
Vero Beach, Indian River County, 1,033,800
Deerfield Beach, Broward County, 1,020,800
Cocoa Beach, Brevard County, 975,800
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According to Westgate's list, the least Instagrammed (and possibly quietest) beach in Florida is Gulf Lakes Public Beach, near Rosemary Beach in the Florida panhandle, with just three Instagram posts tied to the beach.
Here's Westgate Cocoa Beach Resort's list of the top 10 least Instagrammed beaches in Florida and how many posts each beach has:
Gulf Lakes Public Beach, Bay County, 3
Groot's Beach, Duval County, 6
South Swim Beach, Monroe County, 13
Charmed Beach, Walton County, 21
Dickerson City Beach, Santa Rosa County, 22
Green Street Beach, Broward County, 23
Big Grass Island, Taylor County, 25
Walton Dunes, Walton County, 26
Klondike Beach, Brevard County, 29
Virginia Forrest Beach, Martin County, 31
Spring break for most counties in Florida will land in the third week of March, some counties will have spring break later in March or in early April.
See the spring break dates for all of Florida's 67 counties here.
This article originally appeared on Florida Today: Florida's most Instagrammed beaches are spring break hotspots. Here's a list

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