Crab Meadow Beach Park

A must go to beach. With My $ 30 yearly pass I can go in anytime. The low tide Is cool. Wait for it and run out there. Everyone does. There are slides for the kids. A little boardwalk and showers outside. There are 2 covered pick nick areas that you need reserve when you get there. The Casa restaurant comes in handy to get in air conditioning on a hot day for a drink or lunch or dinner.
Generally not crowded but on a hot weekend it gets crowded with as lot of family and kids.
Less crowded is Hobart Beach.

nice North Shore beach – and you can order pizza and eat in in the sand! (that’s a good thing)

Nice beach with a big parking lot to accommodate many cars. The water is SUPER cold this time of year (May-​June) so don’t expect to do a lot of swimming at the start of the summer. When I was swimming about 50 feet from shore I swam over a crab so be careful!

Take your beach shoes, find a friend/​family member with a township sticker, pack your own lunch/​snacks, don’t forget a camera and ENJOY one of this area’s gems! YES, there are TONS of rocks during low tide, and NO, it’s not exactly the boardwalk experience you might be imagining, but if you’re looking for a scenic, serene spot, you can’t go wrong here…
As you approach the beach, the last moment or two of the drive down Waterview St., with the (I imagine) incredibly over-​priced beach «bungalows» on the left and the marshy bay (?) on the right, you just might forget where you are for a moment!!! Very scenic! The beach, however, is NEVER crowded, has tons of space (esp. during that very rocky — get OVER it!!! — low tide!!) and amazing sand bars, views to infinity (or at least Connecticut on a clear day!!) and plenty of features for landlubber and water-​babe alike! There’s an Italian restaurant that just about always busy, and they also offer pizza and some other selections from their menu on the outside patio. My mom, sister and I shared a pie and it was comparable price and quality (or better) than any local pizzeria’s offering. I think a baloney sandwich might even taste like filet mignon if I could eat it overlooking the calm (semi) pristine waters of the Long Island Sound on a daily basis…
I grew up in this area, and like most, overlooked/​underappreciated this and other north shore town beaches in favor of the ocean on the south shore, but since leaving for semi-​landlocked Ohiooooooooo, I’ve come to truly appreciate these gems! ENJOY!

Located in the village of Northport on the Long Island Sound, Crab Meadow Beach is not a powdery sanded beach by any means. It is however clean, offers a very family friendly environment, has a restaurant on the beach (La Casa) with outdoor seating, is small/​intimate, offers a small boardwalk, made up of about 90% locals, a perfect beach for tanning, has awesome new built-​in BBQs, and a huge pavilion for entertainment. You’ll also find easy access to the inlet/​sound for any of you kayakers/​paddle boarders out there, and plenty of parking for all your friends/​family. Visitors can expect to pay $ 20/​car for a day pass, and only $ 35 for a resident seasonal pass.

You won’t see tourists come here, if you’re lucky the only sound you’ll hear is of an occasional dog barking along with some teenagers. This place is located just East of the National Grid towers, just Northeast of downtown Northport. Their was a lot more beach to this but after Sandy a breach was made and took out an entire fence. For the kids their are swings, a basketball court and that’s pretty much it. I believe their is a fee but I’d never come here and pay anything over $ 0 for this small and quiet beach.
If you’re venturing on the North Shore and Hobart Beach/Eaton’s Neck is your final destination, this place isn’t so bad to stop by either before or after. Their’s no boardwalk so that’s kind of a downer but you won’t find the Sunken Meadow crowd here. You can probably go out in the water quiet a bit and cast a line out and hopefully catch some fish.