New England offers many beautiful ocean beaches and this information focuses on the best places to enjoy the sun, sand and surf.
Cape Cod offers some of the best public ocean beaches in New England, with the following earning a spot in our personal Cape Cod Beaches Hall of Fame (in addition to being great cheap travel destinations as you just have to pay for parking): Coast Guard Beach, Eastham...
Booking.com New England has so many great beaches, but my favorite is Short Sands Beach in York Beach, Maine. Framed by rocky coast, magnificent old oceanfront homes, arcades, and a lively, small downtown, Short Sands Beach best captures the essence of summer in New England for us with its...
If you’re looking for an unpretentious, cheap travel New England beach destination, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, offers waves of fun at the Palace Playland amusement park and the beautiful seven-mile beach. A classic Memorial Day to Labor Day Weekend travel and vacation spot, the great stretch of Maine ocean...
Source: ct.gov via Visit on Pinterest Life can still be a day at the beach after Labor Day in southern New England. While many of us equate Cape Cod as the end all for ocean beaches, keep in mind that there’s equally impressive beach life beyond this fabled New...
Plymouth Long Beach in Plymouth, Mass., is really a beautiful coastal spot, just a few miles south on Route 3A from the downtown. We recently visited after 6 p.m. on a weekend and there was no parking fee. The walk was peaceful — with fewer crowds — and the...
VisitMaine.com (Maine Office of Tourism), recently tipped us that several Maine beaches offer good opportunities for sea glass hunting. Beaches at Peaks Island in Casco Bay, Fish Beach at Monhegan Island and Mackerel Cove on Bailey Island are “dependable” sea glass destinations, according to VisitMaine. In addition, Spring Point...
This morning, we received a great New England “cheap travel” question from Susan and family from the mid west… This website is very informative. We are from St. Louis and planning to drive to Hudson, N.Y., in July to visit a family with two little girls. We would like...