The Hammock

Area Communities: Hammock Beach, Hammock Dunes, Ocean Hammock

Within Palm Coast is an area known as The Hammock - named such because it is a natural hammock, by definition, a tract of forested land that rises above an adjacent marsh area. Hammocks are common in Florida, but having said that, the truth is that many hammocks have been destroyed by development and so they can be hard to find today.

The Hammock communities occupy a swath of land east of the Malacompra Greenway preserve, culminating at the Atlantic coastline. Revered for its unspoiled beauty, developers selected this location for some of the most luxurious planned residential areas anywhere on the eastern seaboard. Development is being done with extreme care, with an effort to enhance and complement, not to destroy.

The Hammock communities exemplify the best of what Palm Coast and Flagler County have to offer including all resort-style amenities and numerous living options.

The result is three resort-styled, luxury residential communities, each paying respect to the land by leaving open spaces and including nature trails and park-like designs into their developments. These communities are Hammock Beach, Hammock Dunes and Ocean Hammock.

The area is located 20 minutes south of St. Augustine and 30 minutes north of Daytona Beach. The international airport in Jacksonville is approximately one hour away by car.

Hammock Beach

Elegantly occupying 1,500 acres of immaculate Atlantic coast, the unique development of Hammock Beach sparkles like gold dust on a sandy shore. The neighborhoods within this community offer a variety of luxurious lifestyles.

The high-rise condominiums replete with resort-style amenities allow you to live in the veritable lap of luxury. Alternatively, select a single-family home site on the beach and build your custom oceanfront dream home. Yacht Harbor Village awaits those who fancy the maritime lifestyle.

If boating and fishing are your passions, pick one of these Intracoastal home sites or waterfront condominiums and a private dock will be available to you, as will the services of the full size marina.

If golf is your game, the existing Jack Nicklaus 18 hole, par 72 championship course is unmatched. The course runs through live oaks and wetlands with several holes kissing the ocean shore. There are few more majestic viewpoints than those from an emerald fairway overlooking an azure sea. To build a custom home on the edge of this course is to put the world in your backyard.

Residents of Hammock Beach have full access to Club membership, which includes the multi-million dollar Water and Swim Pavilion with 3-story waterslide, several pools, lazy river and poolside bar and grill. Pamper yourself in the 12,000±SF health spa with saunas, steam rooms, whirlpools, treatment and massage rooms. Plus, you may enjoy the full fitness center and the two tennis complexes with Har-Tru courts. Have your personal concierge make all the arrangements!

Hammock Dunes

Well-planned and superbly executed, Hammock Dunes is a private, golf course community set directly on the Atlantic coast. Gated and secure, entrances which are staffed 24 hours a day control access in and out of Hammock Dunes.

Two championship golf courses flank this development – one a Tom Fazio design and the other a Rees-Jones creation, called the Creek Course.

Both are a challenging 18 holes and both travel through the natural areas of Hammock Dunes. Many of the single-family homes here claim their fairways as spectacular vistas.

Hammock Dunes is also right on the ocean and offers 1½ miles of beach to its residents. Enjoy the privacy factor here on this serene stretch of sand. The oceanfront clubhouse is spectacular with views of vast ocean to one side and gorgeous golf links to the other. Dine casually or with refinement in one of the clubhouse restaurants. Enjoy an after dinner drink in the lounge and make plans to meet your neighbor for a game of tennis on one of the five clay courts. The heated pool and spa, fitness facilities and pro-shop provide additional conveniences.

The community’s social calendar keeps residents busy – or at least with the option to be busy. Many prefer just to relax and enjoy all that Hammock Dunes has to offer in the way of doing nothing

For the boating enthusiast, Island Estates is simply incomparable—a 2 mile long island with every home site fronting either the Intracoastal of the FEC Canal.

Ocean Hammock

Like its neighbors in The Hammock, Ocean Hammock was planned to be an elite oceanfront community that features world-class golf, but also provides all the expected resort-style amenities and amusements, with a variety of home options. Ocean Hammock does not disappoint.

The community fronts the Jack Nicklaus course which runs through Ocean Hammock and Hammock Beach. The course was built by Nicklaus, with a flair for the dramatic and his skill for constructing a stunning course, and features six holes directly on the ocean. Nicklaus himself has proclaimed this course to be the “Pebble Beach of the east”. The Clubhouse is a sight to behold as well. With full fitness facilities, a pro-shop, restaurant, ocean-oriented swimming pool, and beach amenities, it is everything one would expect at this level of luxury.

Meander on foot through the 320-acre nature preserve or by bicycle through the tree-lined streets of Ocean Hammock. Each neighborhood is distinctive with various single-family home options.

Ocean Point Estates is not far from the beach and offers home sites with golf course views as well as wetland and lake views. Ocean Reserve Estates is a bit more wooded and exclusive, with limited large estate parcels along the golf course, a few lakeside parcels and just a handful that adjoin the nature preserve. From here, a short stroll over the pedestrian bridge takes you to the sands of Ocean Hammock’s beach.