If you’re looking to have just a few more perfect beach days before the water starts to get chilly again, we know just the spot.
For the past four weeks, we’ve been polling readers via a bracket to determine the best beach in Massachusetts. We considered freshwater and saltwater beaches, North shore and South shore, but, little surprise, at the end of the day it was a beach on Cape Cod that earned the title of best beach in Massachusetts.
The winner was none other than Coast Guard Beach in Eastham, beating the runner up Race Point Beach with 57% of the vote.
Why Coast Guard Beach is so popular
Coast Guard Beach in Eastham is part of the National Seashore and has long been a favorite spot. It “marks the start of what author Henry David Thoreau called the ‘Great Beach,’ an uninterrupted sandy coastline stretching north for over 20 miles,” according to a Seashore description of the area.
More recently, the Coast Guard Beach has been named one of the top 10 in the United States by Dr. Beach , also known as Stephen P. Leatherman, a professor in the Department of Earth & Environment at Florida International University in Miami and director of the school’s Laboratory for Coastal Research who is well-known for his opinion on beaches.