Salt at the Ritz-Carlton
The fine-dining room at the Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island on the island's south end — the most formal restaurant on Amelia Island, inside the resort rather than in a walkable district.
Summer Beach festival
Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance
Key facts
A internationally significant classic and collector car event held each March on the south end of Amelia Island, centred on the Ritz-Carlton and the adjoining golf course, with auctions, seminars and a concours judging weekend.
The Concours is the event that puts Amelia Island on calendars in Europe and Japan, and it is unlike anything else on the island's schedule.
Held each March, it is centred on the Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island and the fairways of the adjoining golf course on the island's south end. The core of it is a concours d'elegance — collector and competition cars judged on a lawn — surrounded by a week of auctions, seminars, road tours and evening events.
Why it matters
It sits in the top tier of North American car events alongside Pebble Beach, and it draws the machinery and the people that implies. Major auction houses run sales the same week, which is why the island's accommodation and restaurants behave the way they do in March.
Planning around it
Book accommodation months ahead if you are attending, and expect the south end to be busy and the A1A corridor slow. If you are not attending, the north end of the island and downtown Fernandina Beach are far less affected than they are during Shrimp Festival — the Concours is a south-end event.
Tickets are sold by the organisers in tiers, and the schedule of what happens on which day changes each year. Weather has forced format changes in past editions.
Dates and tickets
We do not publish unconfirmed dates or prices. Check the event's own site for the current year's schedule, ticket tiers and venue arrangements before booking travel.
Dates for this year
We have not yet confirmed this year’s dates with the organiser, so we are not publishing one. Recurrence pattern: Annually in March. Check the organiser’s own listing before booking travel — festival dates on Amelia Island move by a week or more between years.
Confirmed dates on our calendar
Nothing confirmed on our calendar for this festival yet. Our events feed only carries dates we have checked against an organiser or an official calendar.
Frequently asked questions
- When is the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance?
- It is held each March on the island's south end, centred on the Ritz-Carlton and the adjoining golf course. Check the organisers' site for the current year's dates.
- Does the Concours affect the whole island?
- Mainly the south end and the A1A corridor. Downtown Fernandina Beach and the north end are much less affected than during the Shrimp Festival in May.
Where it is
- Concours d'Elegance mid-island, ocean side
Plan your visit
- Organisers set dates annually — we publish a date only once we have confirmed it against the organiser.
- Downtown festival weekends close Centre Street to traffic. Park on the edge of the district and walk in.
- Accommodation for the biggest weekends books out months in advance.
Nearby
The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island
An oceanfront luxury resort on the island's Summer Beach stretch, with its own dune walkovers, spa, pools and the fine-dining restaurant Salt. The island's top-tier property and the base for the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance week.
Peters Point Beachfront Park
Nassau County's largest south-end beach park, off Fletcher Avenue near Sadler Road's southern reach. Big free lot, restrooms, outdoor showers, picnic pavilions and a long boardwalk over the dunes — the south end's answer to Main Beach, usually with more room.
Details unconfirmed
Also in Summer Beach
Related on this site
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