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Salty Brine State Beach,
Old Silver Beach,
5 8
Falmouth, MA
Narragansett, RI
MAP E5 • Adm MAP G4 • Adm
With solar-powered, hot-water This beautiful beach overlooking
showers and electricity from wind Buzzards Bay has warm summer
turbines to supply the juice to waters, low waves, and a very
recharge electric vehicles, this is gradual drop-off, making it an ideal
the “greenest” beach facility in New swimming spot for young kids. Half
England. The narrow strip of fine the beach is reserved for Falmouth
golden sand at the entrance to residents; the other half is open to
Galilee harbor has gentle waves, all. Facing west over Buzzards Bay,
great views of fishing vessels, and Old Silver has some of New England’s
some of the coast’s finest seafood. most spectacular sunsets.
Coast Guard Beach,
6
Eastham, MA
MAP H4 • Adm
Arguably the best swimming beach
on Cape Cod, Coast Guard Beach
marks the beginning of the 30-mile
(48 km) Great Beach of the Cape
Cod National Seashore. A long and
generous slope of sand leads down
to the ocean, so the beach is never
crowded. Stroll southward onto
Nauset Spit to watch shore birds
in summer, seals in winter.
Reid State Park coastline
Hammonasset Beach
7 Reid State Park,
State Park, Madison, CT
Georgetown, ME
MAP C5 • Adm • Camping late May– 9
mid-Oct MAP P4 • Adm
More than 2 miles (3 km) of brown Reid State Park beaches are long
sand beaches lapped by the gentle strands of brown sand backed by
waves of Long Island Sound lure high dunes – the antithesis of the
summer swimmers and sunbathers “rocky coast of Maine.” Mile Beach
in droves, but Connecticut’s longest and Half Mile Beach have lifeguards,
shorefront park also has an excellent changing rooms, and snack bars
nature center at Meigs Point. in summer. You can swim safely
Fishermen stake out positions along stretches sheltered from the
here early for excellent bluefish ocean by sand bars, or break out
and striped bass fishing. the surf boards and head for more
exposed parts of the beach.
Ogunquit Beach,
0
Ogunquit, ME
MAP N5
A 2-mile (3-km) cove lined with
brown sand, Ogunquit Beach is well
served by a summer trolley system
that makes parking a cinch. The
south end of the beach terminates
at romantic Marginal Way, a clifftop
walking path through thickets of
roses to the shops, restaurants, and
Vast sands at Hammonasset Beach copious art galleries of Perkins Cove.

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