Right Beaches

Find the right beach for today

Compare parking, bathrooms, the walk to the water and the tide before you choose where to go.

Where are you starting from?
What matters today?
What you get

Know the beach before you park

Old Silver Beach
Falmouth
Walk to waterYou're on it
Parking120 ft away
CostPaid parking
Race Point Beach
Provincetown
Walk to water125 yd
Parking425 yd away
CostPaid parking
Miami Beach - South Beach
Miami
Walk to water160 ft
Parking325 yd away
What we answer

The questions a map cannot answer

Where do I actually park?
Measured to the nearest edge of the lot, not its centre — the edge is where you get out of the car.
How far is the walk to the water?
From the parking to the waterline on the aerial photograph, in feet, with the walking time next to it.
Is there a restroom?
From OpenStreetMap and the official listing, with the caveat that beach restrooms are often seasonal.
What is the tide doing?
NOAA predictions from a station within 10 km, refreshed in your browser rather than baked in last month.
Does it cost anything?
Parking fees and town stickers, counted from visitor reports because no authority publishes them in one place.
Is it a beach for small children?
Repeated mentions of shallow water and flats, counted — not a sentiment score and not our opinion.
How we know

We do not guess

Official listings
The place itself: name, address and opening hours from Google Business listings.
Visitor evidence
Repeated reports in public reviews, turned into structured facts and stored with the number of mentions and the years they span.
Open map data
Beach outlines, parking, restrooms and showers from OpenStreetMap under the ODbL, plus public-domain USGS aerial photography.
A quality gate
We check a sample by hand. Anything under 90% accuracy is collected but never shown — six attributes are switched off for that reason.
770,643
reviews read
41,038
facts published
174,578
claims rejected
15
attributes switched off
Built for the day you are having

Some days, the easy beach wins

You have a cooler, chairs, kids and a few hours. A short walk, easy parking and a bathroom can make one beach much easier than another.

Short walk, restrooms, room for small kids
Skaket Beach · Orleans
Free, and you park at the edge of the sand
Lighthouse Beach · Chatham
Wild, if you do not mind the walk
Race Point Beach · Provincetown
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