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Vermont beaches

5 beaches, with the parking, the walk to the water and the tide for each one.

Where are you starting from?
What matters today?
Shortest walk

Park almost on the sand

Lakeside Beach Access
Cape Cod · the listing sits on the shoreline
Thayer Beach
Colchester · 50 ft to the water
Southwest Cove
Westmore · 50 ft to the water
Shelburne Town Beach
Shelburne · 90 ft to the water
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Every beach

All 5 beaches, by how many people rate them

BeachTownWalk to waterParkingFeeRestrooms
Thayer BeachColchester50 ft425 yd–yes
Shelburne Town BeachShelburne90 ft240 ft––
Southwest CoveWestmore50 ft200 yd––
Lakeside Beach Accesson the sand150 yd–yes
Alburg Dunes310 ft550 yd–yes

Walk and parking distances are measured on OpenStreetMap. Fee and restrooms come from counted visitor reviews and mapped facilities. A dash means we have no evidence either way, not that the answer is no.

Questions

Common questions

Which Vermont beach has the shortest walk from the car?
Lakeside Beach Access in Vermont has the listing right on the shoreline. We measure the straight line from the listed location to the mapped waterline for every beach, so the table above ranks them all.
Do you have to pay to park at Vermont beaches?
Mostly yes. Of the 5 beaches here, 0 have visitors reporting a parking or entry fee and 0 report free parking. Reported fees run from $20 to $35 a day in season, and several beaches drop the fee after 5pm or outside the summer.
Which beaches have restrooms?
3 of the 5 beaches have restrooms mapped on site or reported by visitors. Seasonal closures are common: several National Seashore beaches close their facilities outside the summer.
How current is this?
Tide, waves, wind and water temperature are fetched live in your browser from NOAA and Open-Meteo. Parking and facility positions come from OpenStreetMap; imagery from USGS NAIP. Facts counted from visitor reviews carry the year range they were written in.
How we know

Where this comes from

Place details from the public Google business listing. Beach shape, parking and facility positions from OpenStreetMap (ODbL). Aerial imagery is public-domain USGS NAIP. Tide comes from NOAA, and weather and water from Open-Meteo. Map drawings are redrawn from that aerial imagery by an image model. Markers, distances and every fact on this page come from OpenStreetMap and counted reviews, never from a drawing. Review text is never republished.