Bethune Beach is an unincorporated community in Volusia County, Florida, United States. Bethune Beach is located south of New Smyrna Beach, and its southern border is the northern end of the Canaveral National Seashore.  It is named after Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, founder of Bethune-Cookman College.  It is only accessible from one road the A1A from the North.