Lighthouse Beach is located across Main Street from the USCG Lifeboat Station in Chatham, Massachusetts and is managed by the town. Free thirty-minute paved parking for about fifty standard vehicles is provided on Main Street. This includes three handicap accessible spots, even though the beach is only accessible by way of a set of about 25 stairs. The sand bar on the horizon was once part of Nauset Beach, but is now an island. It is part of the Cape Cod National Seashore. We visited in October 2021.
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| View from the sidewalk on Main Street |
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| View from the access stairs |
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| Another view from the stairs |
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| A boat motors along the Chatham Harbor channel |
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| Wind-rippled sandy beach |
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| Birds feeding on the island |
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| The barrier island protects Lighthouse Beach from most wave action |
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| Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) |
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| The beach is fairly steep |
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| American herring gull (Larus smithsonianus) |
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| One last look at the island and the Atlantic Ocean |
There is no entrance fee at Lighthouse Beach.
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