Find the best beaches near you
The community beach map. Find beaches, swimming spots, surf breaks, and hidden coves near you, snap a photo, rate them, and plan your trip. Browse beach guides or open the live map.
How it works
Find
Open the map and see the beaches, swimming spots, and surf breaks near you.
Snap
Found a great beach? Drop a pin, snap a photo, and put it on the map for everyone.
Rate
Rate beaches 1–5 so the best stretches of sand rise to the top.
Beaches worth the trip
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Crane Beach
Ipswich
Four miles of white sand backed by protected dunes — the North Shore’s marquee beach, and the lot routinely fills and closes by late morning on hot weekends.
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Singing Beach
Manchester
Famous for sand that squeaks underfoot; nonresident parking is essentially nil, so most visitors ride the commuter rail from Boston and walk the half-mile down.
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Good Harbor Beach
Gloucester
A big, dune-fringed beach with a tidal island you can walk to at low tide — the lot is the catch, so it’s the textbook “check parking first” beach.
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Wingaersheek Beach
Gloucester
Calm, kid-friendly water with sandbars and a lighthouse view across the Annisquam — popular with families, which means the lot caps before noon.
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Revere Beach
Revere
America’s first public beach (1896), a three-mile crescent reachable on the MBTA Blue Line — the rare Boston-area beach you don’t need a car for.
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Nantasket Beach
Hull
A long South Shore beach with a classic carousel and arcade strip; paid DCR lots, plus a seasonal ferry from Boston.
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