Karpatia does not have an exclusive license to officially sell a brand new Airstream, so if you are buying new we can only offer a great deal on the conversion and kitchen equipment inside. The biggest problem will be deciding where to eat, but the least of your problems will be finding great food on Airstream Row. Only in Seaside, a town that could be mistaken for one of those postcards you see in a beach gift shop, could a row of gleaming aluminum Airstream trailers serving gourmet food become one of the most iconic attractions. Traffic slowly crawls along Highway 30A, seagulls hungrily gaze at the baskets of food, and the murmur of a thousand conversations fills the salt-tinged air. In the shade of wind-swept trees, patrons order their food from a window, pick it up minutes later, and shuffle to a picnic table covered with an umbrella. Tangy barbecue mixes with savory cheese, clashes with the sweetness of fruit-filled crepes, and tussles with the Mediterranean. In 2007, the Walton County Board of Commissioners officially designated the route Scenic 30A.Īirstream Row is located on Scenic 30A, forty minutes from Destin and Panama City Beach.Īromas collide in the air along Airstream Row. Finally, in 1976, the entire highway was completed. Eight years later, the western half was completed. In 1996, Cooper parked his Airstream adjacent to scenic Highway 30A and sold his first shaved ice from his business’s new home.īy 1961, the eastern half of a coastal highway had been completed and was labeled S-30-A. He picked up a vintage 1955 Airstream Bubble from a local company that had retrofitted the trailer with workstations and cut a window into the side to service guests. The journey eventually took him to Los Angeles, the city where the very first Airstream was built. Now he just needed to find an Airstream trailer suitable for a shaved ice business.Ĭooper spent months searching for the perfect Airstream trailer. The committee immediately approved Cooper’s proposal. The idea of a vintage Airstream trailer parked at the edge of the public square with a long line of eager customers was appealing. Drawing inspiration from the classic Americana Airstream travel trailer, he drew up a proposal and submitted it to a committee. There were few parcels available for rent around the small square, and the available parcels were out of his budget range. It’s a pedestrian-only street filled with white tables, vibrant blue umbrellas, bicycles, golf carts, and hundreds of sandaled feet.Īt the edge of the square, between it and the turquoise water of the Gulf of Mexico, a long line of silver Airstream trailers were permanently parked in the shade of palm trees and surrounded by a gaggle of hungry beachgoers. Towering palm trees with thick tops cast a heavy shadow across the brick-laden street around the square. The half-moon-shaped square’s center is a grassy amphitheater with concrete steps typically filled with people eating shaved ice and gourmet hotdogs and Mediterranean meals and barbecue. In 2016, Business Insider named Seaside’s square one of the “12 most beautiful public spaces in the world.” A post office, grocery store, bookstore, and business offices were built around the square. The idea was to build a community with everything a resident would need within walking distance – maybe golf carting distance. Since the community’s inception, a public square was always part of the master plan, a radical departure from traditional residential communities. It was founded in 1982 when Robert Davis – a Miami developer who had spent his childhood vacationing on this stretch of Florida beach – transformed his grandfather’s 80 acres into a seaside residential community. It has a name printed on street signs and prefixing business names, but it’s not a town. 
There is a post office, a town square, and founding members, but it’s not a town.
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