Nauset Beach

Looks like a pretty beach but we couldn’t get down to it– there were no stairs!!! Must have been taken out by a storm or something this winter– we were very sad!

Public beach. Pay for parking. Beautiful scenery. Beautiful people. Great seafood shack. This is not a haven for introversion, unlike some of the private beaches and inlets on the Cape. This is a place to go when you want to be seen or want be amongst others. The drawbacks are: very rocky shoreline that is not only challenging for the more agile amongst us, but it hurts to walk on in the water. The waves are large and crash on the shore, which leads me to the more worrisome aspect: rip current. Talk to the life guards. People are saved every day from rip currents here, and people inevitably drown every year. There has also been an increase in shark attacks. Just when you think Mother Nature can’t get any more anti-​social, here come the sea gulls. These things are the size of people and will land right on your towel while you are napping. I’ve seen them take beach balls from children and snatch an entire dinner tray from a family. There should be park rangers on the beach just to shoot these vicious, winged beasts.

Cleanest, Cheapest & Nicest beach on the east coast!!! Plenty of close parking, with overflow parking if needed. Bathrooms, snack bar, showers, wi-​fi –all the amenities you can think of! Friendly, welcoming staff and lifeguards, all on duty 7:30−5 PM. Make this your summer 2016 vacation destination !!

Very beautiful. The sand is very fine and the sea is very clean. I want to go again and live here!

Great beach (of course… it’s the Cape…). A little out of the way, but a beautiful spot.

Great beach with all the amenities you will need to make a day of it.

Just beautiful. Nice sand, dozens of seals, clean water.
The seals get so close to shore that it keeps me from swimming, but being in the sun & splashed from the surf is enough for a very relaxing visit.
Like all of the National Seashore beaches, very rocky where the waves crash on shore. Wear water shoes to get past that comfortably.

Excellent ocean beach with big enough waves to surf or body surf. Free town of Orleans beach with a large parking lot. Might actually charge for entrance as we came at the end of the day. Nice bathrooms and outdoor cold water showers to get rid of sand after a swim. Watch out for swarms of sand flies which can be nasty so bring insect repellent. Beautiful drive with magnificent houses on the road in.

I’ve been going to the Cape for years and Nauset is my favorite Beach! A great place to relax and enjoy summer! It is not a long walk from the parking lot, there are bathrooms, and a great food shack, Liam’s, where you can get everything from beverages, ice-​cream, smoothies, hot dogs, burgers, & salads, to shrimp & fried clam baskets with homemade onion rings that can feed two, and lobster rolls. A band plays at the gazebo Monday nights during the summer. The beach is clean, the water clear, and great waves. Seals are seen from beach blankets/​chairs and have been close to shore, and there have been shark sightings, but the ocean is THEIR HOME! Lifeguards are very attentive. If you like to go in the water, but can’t swim, go to the bay… Skaket Beach has calmer waters and is also in Orleans.

Good beach with lots of space and views. In the past there are multiple shark sightings. Good beach

Great beach. $ 15 to park, and when we went at 10am there was a very long line that took us about 30 minutes to enter the beach. If you can bike or walk, go for it. The bathrooms and changing rooms are clean. The shack offers standard snacks with a Cape-​spin emphasizing seafood; ice cream and smoothies are also available. I didn’t eat because the line wrapped around the building. Not sure if this is typical, but there was not swimming due to a «wicked rip,» as we were informed by the parking attendant. At least we got to see some seals playing in the surf!

Gorgeous spot! The waves were insane on the day we went, while which made swimming with my two young sons all but impossible. Frigid cold water. We had a great time otherwise and even saw about 4 seals! Which was super cool!
Our tips-​bring a cooler with food and drinks, as the snack bar is very good but pricey. Get there early and set up a large space if you have kids who like to play in the sand. As the day went on the beach got very crowded and we were grateful for having «claimed» enough space that we weren’t bothering anyone else with our digging!

My boyfriend and I spent a Saturday in August at Nauset Beach. There was a little traffic as you have to stop and pay the $ 15 fee, but it wasnt too bad. The beach is nice, although is very rocky and big waves, so probably not great for kids. We liked the bathhouse with bathrooms and showers outside and also enjoyed getting some food (and onion rings, which I didnt think were that good) at Liam’s. It was a fine beach, but due to the rocky (and deep drop off) at the water I may try something different.

We love this place, make reservations and go on an empty stomach, you will be awed, we always are.

Liam’s has great food, esp the onion rings.

Remarkably beautiful beach. Clean, abundant parking, facilities and a snack bar.
What more can you ask for? How about adorable seals playing a few yards from the beach? You got it! Great whites, they have those too!
This is a great beach to walk and explore. Enjoy a sunrise, a cocktail or reading a book. Swimming here is far to rough for young ones, I’m talking 12 and under. Freezing cold water, welcome to New England!
A must see, I agree.

This is an absolutely gorgeous beach. We were here this past Thursday and of course the beach was relatively empty (most MA schools are still in session). Another 5 degrees warmer and it would’ve been the perfect beach day. Water was freezing cold (high 50s) so the only animals in the water were seals — that was cool to see. Very clean. Very impressed.

Am zweiten Tag unseres Cape Cod Aufenthaltes wollten wir zur Freude unserer Kinder noch einen Badetag einlegen. Hier hat man die Qual der Wahl und wir hatten nach einer Recherché im Internet uns für den Nauset Beach entschieden.
Die Parkgebühren betragen auf dem Parkplatz 15, — $, hierbei ist die Benutzung der Umkleidekabinen, der Toiletten und Duschen inbegriffen. Das Essen in der dort befindlichen Snackbar ist nicht schlecht aber sehr teuer.
Über einen Steg gelangt man zum Strand, vorbei an der Dünenbepflanzung, die mich an die heimische Nordsee erinnert hat. Der Strand ist sehr weitläufig, sehr sauber und der Sand ist herrlich fein und lädt zu ausgiebigen Spaziergängen ein.
Viele Amerikaner hatten Klappstühle, Kühlboxen und Sonnenschirme dabei, die einen Aufenthalt am Strand angenehmer gestalten. Die Sonne ist hier sehr intensiv, auch wenn sie nicht scheint und man sollte sich gut eincremen, um sich vor der Sonne zu schützen. Wir hatten abends trotz hohen Sonnenschutzfaktor einen leichten Sonnenbrand.
Für mich einer der schönsten Strände auf Cape Cod, den ich uneingeschränkt empfehlen kann. Unsere Kinder hatten sehr viel Spass, allerdings ist ein Strandbesuch ohne komplettes Strand-​Equipment nicht wirklich optimal.

Lovely beach with quick access to the bathrooms and showers. Small parking lot with a separate parking for tax payers. Come early and don’t think you are getting a parking spot until someone leaves. Enjoy the surf until high tide takes your blanket into the ocean.

Sure, the water’s cold, but that’s New England for ya. This is a beautiful beach, with long stretches of pristine sand that make for great walks along the coastline. There are pretty big waves for body surfing or boogie boarding, if you’re into that kind of thing, or if you’re like me and just enjoy watching them come crashing into the shore.
Parking is $ 15. They have a pretty gigantic parking lot, but I have seen it fill up, so getting here early is a good way to guarantee that you won’t be turned away. The bathroom and shower area is very clean. There’s a snack bar with the typical assortment of greasy beach food if you’re hungry.
Not much else to say! Great beach on beautiful Cape Cod.

Belle plage mais parking cher (15 dollars). Bien équipée (toilettes, douches) et bon petit restaurant qui fait de bons fish and chips

Nauset is the beach of my youth. There’s no way you can convince me it isn’t the best beach in New England — that would just hurt my pride. The water is effing freezing, the waves are pretty large for New England, and the facilities are well-​maintained and convenient. The sand is super-​fine and clean, and that view, man… It’s pretty close to perfect.
I say it’s the beach of my youth because this is where I’ve been coming my entire life. I nearly drowned here when I was 7 (there were lifeguards smacking me and everything), and it’s where I learned to body surf (hence the nearly drowning). For a Cape Cod native, that’s important stuff.
The parking lot is huge, but easily navigable and not so big that ht beach is ever too crowded. You can come year-​round, which my family and I do –Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without a long, windy walk on the beach. You can even bring your dog off-​season.
If you’re a resident, you can get a discounted beach sticker that’ll let you on all season, and if you have a 4-​wheel drive vehicle, you can let the air out and drive onto the outer beach (entrance is at the far end of the parking lot). Win.