Panama City Beach, Florida: Gulf Coastline and High-Rise Condominiums

Panama City Beach, Florida, stretches along the Gulf of Mexico with high-rise beachfront condominiums and hotels lining the shore. The city’s modern resort landscape was built largely through late-20th-century coastal development, as towers and vacation properties replaced much of the earlier low-rise beachfront. These buildings provide short-term lodging and seasonal residences along a beach known for white quartz sand and direct access to the Gulf.

Photo taken in February 2011.