North of 30A · Walton County
Point Washington
Live oaks, sand streets and a working boat landing on the bay — five minutes from the beach, and nothing like it.
The Quiet Side of 30A
A 30A address that isn’t on the beach
Turn north off 30A onto County Road 395 and the crowd thins out inside a mile. Point Washington sits between the highway and Choctawhatchee Bay — oak canopy instead of dune scrub, gravel lanes instead of resort streets, and houses that were built one at a time by people who wanted the shade. It is one of the oldest settled places on this coast and one of the few left where you can still buy a piece of ground and put something on it.
Where It Came From
The town the timber built
Before there was a 30A, there was Point Washington. Rafts of raw timber came down the Choctawhatchee River to the mills here, were cut into lumber, and shipped out to Pensacola and beyond — the Wesley operation ran from around 1890 until after the First World War. The white church, the old sign and the weathered outbuildings under the oaks are what is left of that town, and they are still in daily use rather than preserved behind glass.
Still In Use
The old school is still a school
Point Washington had a school when the beach towns south of it were still scrub and dune, and it is still a working school today — Emerald Coast Middle School, part of Walton County Schools, rather than a museum piece with a plaque on it. That is worth more than it sounds. A community this small keeping a school open means year-round families rather than rental turnover, and it is the clearest single sign that this is somewhere people live rather than somewhere they visit.
On The Water
The bay side, which most visitors never see
Point Washington Landing puts a boat ramp and a dock straight onto the bay, and the Choctawhatchee Rowing & Paddling Club keeps its shells here. This is flat, protected water — the kind you can paddle at seven in the morning without checking the surf report. For anyone who wants a boat more than they want a beach chair, the calculation here is different from anywhere on the Gulf side of 30A.
Eden Gardens State Park
161 acres, and our favorite place in the county
Eden Gardens is in Point Washington — the lumber baron’s house on Tucker Bayou, the ornamental gardens, and more than 370 camellias that bloom from November clear through April. We are not neutral about it: both of our daughters were married on that lawn. If you are house-hunting up here, go walk it first. It tells you more about what this place is than any listing will. Read our full guide to Eden Gardens.
The Wedding Tree
Older than the state, and still working
Off the side of the Eden lawn stands a southern live oak said to be around six hundred years old, limbs running out low and long under the moss. It was a century old before Ponce de León ever saw Florida, and on most good-weather weekends there are still chairs set out beneath it. Trees like this are the reason people choose the north side of 30A, and the reason lots up here get bought for the canopy as much as the acreage.
Beach Access
You do not get beach frontage. You get a five-minute drive.
Let us be straight about the trade, because it is the whole point of buying here. Point Washington has no Gulf frontage — the bay is at your back and the Gulf is south of the highway. What you have instead is County Road 395, which drops you onto 30A at Seagrove in about five minutes, with the public accesses at Eastern Lake and Santa Clara close by from there. Plenty of people decide that a short drive to the sand is a fair price for an oak canopy, a boat ramp, and a lot they can still buy. And the wet sand along all 26 miles of South Walton is open to everyone, always.
The State of Point Washington
Where the money still goes further
This is the clearest value argument left on 30A, and the numbers carry it. Houses for sale in Point Washington ask around $415 a square foot; the same measure for single-family homes in 30A East runs closer to $986. And nearly two in five of the properties on the market up here are not houses at all but raw land, from $65,000 interior lots to bay-front parcels near $2 million — a kind of inventory that has all but vanished south of the highway. Buyers come for the shade and the space; they stay for what the same budget bought.
One quirk worth knowing before you search: most of Point Washington carries a Santa Rosa Beach mailing address. Of the properties listed here right now, only a handful actually say “Point Washington” on the listing — which is exactly why so many buyers never find it. It is MLS Area 19, Walton County.
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Closed sales in Point Washington over the last 12 months. Source: MLS, as of 31 August 2026.
Where We’ve Been
A year of sales in Point Washington
Point Washington trades more steadily than the boutique Gulf-front towns, because it is a real neighborhood with year-round owners rather than a rental pool. Watch the median rather than any single sale — a bay-front parcel and a cottage on a gravel lane are both Point Washington, and they are not remotely the same trade.
Closed sales by quarter
Homes closed each quarter in Point Washington, Q4 '25 – Q2 '26. Source: Emerald Coast MLS. Complete quarters only.
Median sold price by quarter
Median sold price by quarter in Point Washington, Q4 '25 – Q2 '26. Source: Emerald Coast MLS. Complete quarters only.
On the Market Now
Homes and land for sale in Point Washington
Magnolia Beach, Holley Grove, Peach Creek, Paradise Cove, Audubon Point and Bunker Creek all sit inside Point Washington, and they price differently from one another. Here is what is available right now.
80 homes for sale in Point Washington
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Point Washington Real Estate
Come look at the north side
If the beach matters more than the lot, buy south of the highway. If the lot matters more than the walk, come see Point Washington — and let us show you which streets flood, which lots have the canopy worth paying for, and what the bay side is really like in August.