Date visited: 6/30/2023

Here we have a rarity! A beach in Massachusetts that allows dog year round! It's a pretty nice beach too! I did not know it at the time, but it's actually two beaches that are connected, Rexhame Beach in Marshfield (where the paking lot is located) and Humarock Beach in Scituate. We only walked about half the beach, but still walked over two miles (out and back). We came out here because there was much less smoke in the air here, then places closer to home. That said, it was still a little bit hazy. Keep in mind, that there is a parking fee for this beach during the season, ranging $20 to $30 during the day, depending on the day of the week. But it's only $5 any day after 5PM, which is when we went. It was a nice visit on a hot summer day! The pictures below are from Humarock Beach in Scituate section. Visit the Marshfield page for the pictures from the Rexhame Beach section.

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Date visited: 3/30/2024

It was difficult to find a parking spot here. The small lots for this beach were all permit parking only. We eventually did find some parking on the road, but like Cohasset, I get the distinct impression the locals don't want us outsiders here. This is a small beach, and dogs are allowed from Sept 16 to June 14th. The beach is in two sections separated by a seawall. The seawall has a walking trail that runs along the top of the wall. There are poop bag dispensers, but no garbage cans. People left their filled poop bags all along the seawall. The bags were likely left by the people who live in the town and have a permit to park, but as an unwanted outsider, I took Mandy and Lexi's poop bags with me when I left.

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Date visited: 3/30/2024

This is another small town beach in Scituate. Dogs are allowed from September 16 to June 14th. This one has a decent size "permit only" parking lot, but has four dedicated parking spots for visitors without a permit! We walked the length of the beach, but it wasn't that long. Out and back was probably a half mile or so total. Since this was our third stop of the day, and I still hadn't gotten enough steps, and since we found a "legal" parking spot, I decided to take a walk around the local neighborhood before we left.

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Date visited: 3/30/2024

This is the neighborhood near Peggotty Beach. The areas are called First Cliff and Second Cliff on the map, as the neighborhood is mostly on cliffs that look out over the beach. We looped around Peggotty Beach Road, Crescent Avenue and Edward Foster Road. The route passes a marina, some mostly private waterfront access points, and a very small triangular park area with some really nice benches. Including the beach, our walk was about 2.7 miles.

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Date visited: 3/30/2024

We drove by this park as we were leaving town, and decided to check it out. It's a nice park, with a dock overlooking North River. There's a trail here too, but the start of it was completely flooded so we skipped it. The park looks like a good place for a picnic. There are a number of concrete picnic tables. There's a short hill that you can climb up to an overlook that provides a scenic view of the river and surrounding marshes.

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