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Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Nauset Light Beach - Cape Cod National Seashore


Nauset Light Beach is located about a mile north of Coast Guard Beach in Eastham, Massachusetts. From the Salt Pond Visitor Center, turn right (east) onto Nauset Road and drive 0.4 miles. Continue straight onto Doane Road and drive one mile to the Coast Guard Beach driveway. Instead of turning right to Coast Guard Beach, turn left (north) onto Ocean View Drive and drive 0.9 miles. Continue straight as Ocean View Drive becomes Nauset Light Beach Road. Take the next right into the parking lot for Nauset Light Beach. 

During our visit in October 2021, new restrooms, showers, and a lifeguard building were under construction. About half of the parking area was fenced off to be utilized by the work crews. This left about 31 paved parking spots including seven designated for handicap placarded vehicles. There was no RV or bus parking. This is one of the six beaches maintained by the park service that seasonally require an entry fee.

Maybe #FindYourPaintRoller instead

Workman painting the Nauset Lighthouse

New construction

Access to the beach is via a long ramp

Picnic tables partway down the ramp

A switchback between the parking area and the picnic tables

The path continues down to the beach

The parking lot is atop this fifty-foot bluff

Driftwood

Beach boulder

Small waves rolling in

The Great Beach

Geology 101: Cross-section of a sand dune

Ocean and beach from the parking lot

Atlantic Ocean

Nauset Light with a fresh coat of paint

Cape Cod National Seashore beach entrance fees are collected daily from late June through Labor Day, and on weekends and holidays from Memorial Day to the middle of September at select beaches. The six national seashore beaches where fees are collected are Coast Guard and Nauset Light in Eastham, Marconi in Wellfleet, Head of the Meadow in Truro, and Race Point and Herring Cove in Provincetown.

When an entry fee is collected, a fee of $25 per vehicle, $20 per motorcycle, or $15 per person is valid for the same day at Cape Cod National Seashore. Other fee payment options include the America the Beautiful - National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands passes including the Annual Pass ($80), Senior Pass ($80 for a lifetime), Access Pass (free with a documented disability), and Military Annual Pass (free for active-duty personnel). Also available is a Cape Cod National Seashore Annual Pass for $60.

The Cape Cod National Seashore website is https://www.nps.gov/caco/index.htm.

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