{"id":1507,"date":"2011-07-25T10:58:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T10:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2015-07-27T07:32:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T11:32:21","slug":"1507","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/?p=1507","title":{"rendered":"Long Sands Beach Walk in the Morning (York Beach, Maine)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Long Sands Beach in the morning on a summer day (photo by Eric)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you’re not much for beach crowds, we suggest waking up early and heading down to Long Sands Beach in York Beach, Maine, on Route 1A, for a peaceful yet refreshing ocean side walk. For just $1 per hour of metered parking, many walk the mile and a half stretch of beach with great waves, views of Nubble Lighthouse<\/a> and a Down East salt water feeling in the air. The peace and solitude render a wonderful feeling and because of the expanse of beach, you feel like you have the beach to yourself. The sunrises can also be spectacular (see below photo; we recommend clicking to enlarge the photo to get a full appreciation of this scene). What a difference this morning walk is from the crowded summertime scene that arrives just a few hours later!<\/p>\n

Of course, to wake up early here you need to either live nearby or stay at a local hotel, inn, motel or bed and breakfast. \u00a0For the latter, we recommend staying at the Stones Throw<\/a>, located directly across the street from Long Sands Beach. \u00a0The room and restaurant views of the beach are fantastic and the parking is free for registered guests!<\/p>\n

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Sunrises can be spectacular at Long Sands Beach (photo by Eric)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For more info on the York Beach area, we suggest reading our “York Beach Vacation Review”<\/a> and “Ten Reasons to Visit York Beach, Maine”<\/a> articles.<\/p>\n

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\nWhat it’s like to be at Nubble Lighthouse, Cape Neddick<\/a>
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\nVisiting Kennebunkport<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re not much for beach crowds, we suggest waking up early and heading down to Long Sands Beach in York Beach, Maine, on Route 1A, for a peaceful yet refreshing ocean side walk. For just $1 per hour of metered parking, many walk the mile and a half stretch of beach with great waves, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[224,284,271],"tags":[1237,1238,824,983,1144,29],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5694,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/5694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}