A coastal meeting offering beach activities, ocean views and waterfront venues can be a short drive or plane ride away from metropolitan hubs. Here are four beachfront destinations that provide an escape from busy city life—while still being easily accessible from larger cities nearby.

Yes, cageless shark diving is a thing. As is moonlight ziplining and skateboarding on water, aka flyboarding. All around North America, the variety of coastal adventures available to groups offers intriguing diversions from the confines of a meeting room.

In what is yet be the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history, Galveston did not pay its customary price.

Golf legend Arnold Palmer once said, “What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.”

Galveston scores big with groups.

Here are eight group-friendly on-the-water U.S. highlights.

Here are some highlights for planners to ponder when bound for the beach with a fun-seeking group.

From the Gulf Coast to the Rio Grande Valley, the southern stretch of the Lone Star State sparkles.

Coastal destinations offer an engaging choice of team-building meeting options