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Nantasket Beach Reservation

Date visited: 10/3/2023

Nantasket Beach is the common name for both this state beach, and the town beach to the north. It's a very popular and busy beach. It was quite busy on a weekday in early in October when temperatures were around 80 degrees! Like most Massachusetts state beaches, dogs are allowed from September 16th through the end of April. The only issue, is that when we arrived, there was no beach! It was 15 minutes before high tide and the entire beach was underwater! We walked the length of the beach on the sidewalk, but the waves were too heavy to get down to the actual beach. There were people camped out on the rocks waiting for the tides to subside. We eventually made our way to the town beach known as North Nantasket Beach. Luckily, that part of the beach had more sand. On our way back, the tides subsided and we were finally able to get down the water on the far southern end of the beach. Was Nantasket fantastic? No, but it was still a nice place to take the dogs for a walk on a very warm October afternoon.

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North Nantasket Beach

Date visited: 10/3/2023

This is town owned portion of Nantasket Beach. We walked the length of the state beach, and we were finally able to get down to the water once we got to the town beach. The dog rules are different from the state beach. Evidently dogs are allowed from September 16th through the end of May on this portion of the beach. As I mentioned on the state beach write up, it was high tide when we arrived. There's more sand here than the state beach, but also tons of seaweed! It is pretty much spread throughout the beach. We only walked about half way up the beach before turning around. Counting the state beach, we walked a total of four and a half miles out and back. Mandy was able to cool off in the waves, but Lexi wanted no part of it. I was surprised at how many people were actually swimming here, since it was October. I figured the water must be cold, but I guess it didn't matter to the people here who wanted to cool off!