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Ripley Beach
4.4★ · 57 Google ratings · Ripley, New York
✓ Short walk
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Go for rocks, agates, and fossils
The rocky beach is known for finding lake glass, skipping stones, fossils, and fluorescent sodalite with a UV light.
Use alternate path on right side
If main stairs are impassable, walk right from the parking lot past a house to find a second.
Visit on weekday afternoons for solitude
One reviewer arrived at 4pm on a Friday and found very few people at the beach.
Verify stair access before visiting
Multiple 2026 reviews report the main stairs closed, blocked, or under reconstruction with no clear reopening date.
Expect very steep access and no services
The stairs down are steep and the beach has no restrooms, parking available but the access is not wheelchair friendly.
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Air
71°F · overcast
Waves
0.7 ft · 3 s apart
Wind
8 mph from the WSW
UV index
6 peak today
Last updated Sep 4, 9:31 AM.
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How far is the walk to the water at Ripley Beach?
140 ft in a straight line from the listing to the mapped shoreline, under a minute. Soft sand and dune make the real walk longer than the straight line.
Does Ripley Beach have restrooms?
No restrooms are mapped within 600 m on OpenStreetMap. That means nobody has mapped any, which is not the same as there being none.
Measured from OpenStreetMap, public aerial imagery and live conditions data, and counted from visitor reviews. Every source, in full.
