I never knew this part of the park existed... always went to 75th... very nice and clean... I would go again... the concession stand is a nice fit for.the beach

It was rainy and windy( I know hard to believe in Chicago) but this beach was very nice. It seems that the take descent care of it. It would be a great spot to have a little picnic in my opinion.

Beautiful beach with amazing skyline view. Would highly recommend for anyone. Especially great for families with children. Bathrooms were clean.

Absolutely stunning beach! Beautiful naturalized area as well Love it ❤️

Great place to find rocks, to bad I already collected every single rock. Now all that is left is sand, so there

Beautiful Area... But there are so many rocks and slags in the water. Your feet are gonna hurt and if u fall, that's a whole other story. Plus the trash needs to be cleaned up but of course the park district lacks in doing it. Off 79th street so be cautious cuz ppl keep up too much riff raff. It was a decent visit tho

Family and dog friendly, on the lake, and usually not crowded.

Great place to relax and take a peak of the the skyscrapers of Chicago. The downside is that you need to pay to park though!

It was absolutely beautiful. It was such a amazing view of the city skyscrapers and skyline.

Beautiful lake front multi cultures were own enjoying a great day. However, they did refill the toilet paper,but there was no liquid soap to wash your hands and all the sinks were stopped up,also the hand blower dryer didn't work either.

Great place for peace on South East side of city Next to rainbow 🌈 beach but more reserved

Disappointed with the lack of cleanliness and sand.😏 The kids still managed to enjoy themselves, so it wasn't awful. 🤷🏾‍♀️😊

Usually check out the beaches on the North side or downtown when I'm in the city. Decided to check out this one today. Pleasantly surprised. Nice little hidden gem. Not crowded. Cheap parking. Beach can be a little more of small pebbles than true sand in places. Plenty of lifeguards on staff for any emergencies.

The best time to go is early in the morning. Before people come. It's a nice peaceful place.

Beautiful the water is nice and clear the beach is very clean as a bike path you can ride your bike is places to picnic at beautiful very beautiful love

Rainbow Beach Park is huge! The beach itself is probably about 4 blocks long. There is outdoor handball/raquetball, tennis and basketball courts, a field house with programming for young people, 2 beautiful nature areas and a flower garden. The Rainbow beach victory garden is also located in the park, but you must apply to become a member to gain access. This park is great and continuing to become better with time. Look for special events like Kite Day on the Rainbow Beach Park Advisory Council facebook page!

The little people had fun. I enjoyed myself as well.

Rainbow Beach fieldhouse was GREAT!!! The staff were great. They were relaxed and smooth. If you needed anything they were helpful. The location had a perfect amount of room. Now the ultimate thing is that Chicagoland skyline in the background. It's a photographers dream! I highly recommend this place. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Not bad at all. A little rough around the edges, and the school of hard knocks and a few more police than I liked and a bit more turnt up than I am, but was a overall good beach experience. It is midway on my "return to" list and I had a swell time for what it was.

Just a beach. Summertime is hectic with all the loud music and rude people hanging around. The smell of cannibus in the air will get you higher than Pluto. I stopped going years ago but today February 2, 2024 I just went to sit and look at the waves and ponder about stuff.

I can't truly rate the beach because it was to cold to go swimming, it was only the destination I picked since I've never went to any of the south side beaches past 31st. From my experience it seemed nice and quite and offered a different perspective of the city along with more nature areas and a lot less people than the northern more beaches. So that is a blessing. I must admit it was a little concerning going far south but to my surprise it was quite diverse . I briefly met one of their chef life guards and he seemed kind and respectful. I need to truly try it out on a nicer day to be more accurate but it was beautiful I can tell you that

Driving through town I stopped at this roadside park to take some pictures of the iconic skyline. This place was hopping with activity. Plenty of joggers, bicyclists, weight lifters, and just people, in general, enjoying the perfect weather along the Lake Michigan shoreline.

Great place to cleanse your mind and just get out, quiet, you can walk, run, jog, hike, take the kids on a picnic or something , just a soothing place to go , when you just need some quietness in your hectic life.

Quiet relatively safe,only natural beach in city,historic, great geese,water reclamation

The beach is nice. Anyway needs to be cleaned from plastic debris.

Although the beach is closed, I participated with the Green Gang to clean up the garbage on the beach. It was a great experience, and they were cool with allowing us to serve.

Very nice. Loved the size of the park.

It was good to finally back at the beach ..especially after quarantine...it great atmosphere tonight...

It is very beautiful beach. The color of water really greenish blue, The beach veay clean. One can a good weekend here. There are a lot of parking space . At least when i was there , it was not too much crowd. I really enjoyed the brezzes and sound of the beach. Super happy to come here and spend my weekends. Will come here again.

Love this park and beach in any season 😊

It's was love it felt like I was at another beach it was love an so clean me an my son enjoyed ourselves

Relaxing, tranquil,therapeutic these are the words to describe the wonderful experience I had with a few friends at the End of summer Labor day get together. We laugh, sang played cards, drank and enjoyed some very delicious foods. It was really nice sharing an afternoon at the beach in Peace! Spread the love!

The beach provided an extraordinary view of the city skyline. The water was clear and crisp. But there were a lot of small rocks that made walking on the beach a little difficult. Overall we had a good experience and I would recommend a visit.

The wind shifted, temp dropped 20°!

I hadn't been to this beach in YEARS. My cousin decided to barbecue and have a softball game here and I must admit, I was a little leery. Once I got there it looked so different and nice The beach was clean and there was a stage with DJs playing house music. Really nice environment. I enjoyed myself.

The city really need to put more investments into making this beach area as fabulous as they have in the northern beaches. It's a great location when tons of potential.

Rainbow Beach is a very nice place to spend the day, very clean,very quiet place,relaxing and fun for kid and of course grown-up.

I love Rainbow Beach it's the pinnacle of my childhood with my dad and sister. Every summer and winter we would visit this beach and put our legs in the water but we would rarely ever swim in it. I overall this a great place to visit with family or just for alone time to think. The view of Chicago from there is also beautiful too. Hope you visit once.👋😊

This Beach has come a long way since the last time I've been here. I usually come early so it's pretty laid back and chill

Nice and quiet side of the lake. Lovely views if Chicgo skyline. Perfect for when you don't want to dive so far into the city!

It’s an incredible place to hangout and relax, it’s clean, family friendly, great view of the Chicago skyline. The beach is nice and has cool areas for picnics and sitting available. Clean bathrooms too. Offers great parking spots, unfortunately not very accessible if coming by public transportation .

Beach had trash, including glass in the sand, but not too busy with lifeguards on duty. Showers functioned great. Bathrooms were good, clean.

Everything was beautiful and great! They just closed the bathroom at 640pm when the sign said 7pm. Rude. Dogs not allowed on actual beach but the grass, yes.

Nice beach on Lake Michigan. It is nice to see downtown in the distance.

It was a beautiful view watching these huge waves crashing on the shore. It was so romantic, and the weather changed quickly to sleet but it was so amazing!

Wating for the ice formations It promises to be Beautiful

Nice, roomy, park with distant views of downtown

Very nice park. Lots of space for grilling and socializing. Plenty of parking too.

Seemed like there should be more people, maybe just the bad weather. Nice view.

Really lovely park for family, special date, lone walking or just a walk to clear your head and gather your thoughs Didn't stay long as it was cold at the the time but nice place to hang out.

Don't like having to pay to park. Growing up in this city we didn't have to do that. The beach could use a little sprucing up. Get rid of the rocks and replace the sand with cleaner sand.

When I was there it was very peaceful

Good...

Love it

Need more like it

Nice view of lake and downtown

Peaceful

Nice quiet relaxing place

(Translated by Google) very lonely (Original) muy solo

Great place to go with friends.

Nice place.

A beach along a nicely wooded park with a walking/running/biking trail and splendid skyline views.

Its pretty but in some parts of the park there are spike like cactus that stab and stick to clothing without previous warning signs not nice My kids got stabbed with spikes as well as me :(

Long as you from the area it's cool it's been cleaned up nicely from what I remember

An important part of my childhood.

Nice, Clean & quite

(Translated by Google) Clean air is breathed (Original) Se respira aire limpio

Just a nice quiet spot in the BIG city.

Nice and secluded

Awesome beach. Good memories

I love this place. Great view and park stays clean

It was okay you were able to go to the parking lot and look at the skyline and just sit

Great place to walk, jog or bike. Very few others along the path. This is a somewhat hidden treasure.

Love the beach the kids had a great time not over crowded or dirty.

The park district need to do a much better job cleaning the sand, too much glass in it

It's really cool

Closed due to covid-19

None of your business, my secret

The grass could use a cut but other then that the beach was nice and clean maybe because it was closed but we sneaked in anyway.. lots of benches and picnic tables really calm sounds from the lake it was nice

(Translated by Google) Great view of Lake Michigan (Original) Super Aussicht auf den Lake Michigan

1st time here! I deliver expedited freight into Chicago and surrounding suburbs but never took time to check out. Wanted to see lake and just sit awhile but the parking was outrageously overpriced then I saw this, free parking! What a wonderful place, great views, breezy, shade here and there. Watching the MSM News and their inadequate reporting you would think that only crazy or desperate people would live here but I travel all over the world US and Chicago is the coolest, nicest place I've seen yet. I knew the summers must be fantastic to put up with your alls winters.

I cherished it, the climate was awesome. The group was incredible. Everybody was getting a charge out of family and companion time. Grilling, to excursion/ing and playing in the sand and water. Magnificent sight to see the blend culture too. Can hardly wait to welcome loved ones and return. 😁

Great view of the lake and great place for friends and family to gather

Wonderful spot on the south side to get a good scope of downtown. Has a gym and a small exercise room in the fieldhouse. Membership required of course

ALLELUIA!!! PRAISE TO THE MOST HIGH GOD, IN JESUS HOLY NAME!!! REALLY ENJOYED MYSELF, EVERYTHING WAS IN ORDER, PARKING, REST ROOMS CLOSE BY. THE BEACH CLOSE BY AS WELL. PLENTY OF ROOM FOR US ALL TO SET UP OUR PLACE TO SIT. AND TO SET UP OUR TABLES TO SERVE THE FOOD. AND TO COOK & GRILL AS WELL. ENJOYED BEING IN THE COMPANY OF ME BROTHER'S AND SISTER'S OF THE HOJ BIBLE CLASS BEACH FRONT GATHERING. STAYING PRAYERFUL!!!

Wanted to go to the Lakeshore while we still had "summer-like" weather.!. We got there kinda late, but still enjoyed gazing out over Lake Michigan's gorgeous, cerulean, blue/greens¡! 🤩

Nice place

I love this beautiful beach

So relaxing and the day me and my friend went it was sooo quiet! Only a few people were there

The field house was cool. The view was fantastic.. But it was Winter, so It only got 4 stars

Great Experience If You're Trying To Have A Nice Lakefront Scenery Get There Early Leave Early Can't Go Wrong lol And I'm From Chicago 😁😁😁

A nice little lakeside getaway from downtown Chicago, Rainbow Beach Park was a slice of serenity we needed just before the stay-at-home advisory too effect. The quiet waves hitting the sand definitely quieted the voices in my head.

Love the serenity and the ratchet-like environment it sometimes provides. Sometime it’s calm, sometime it’s chaos.

I like this beach!

Great atmosphere and the vendors there are friendly in the food and drinks are delicious

We went on a cool Sunday afternoon and there weren’t a lot of people. The beach was clean and had benches available for sitting. The bathrooms weren’t open at that time of day, so plan for that. But it was a nice chill time.

A very chill place to be! Great music & food. I had my 1st snowball of the summer. My inner kid was happy to have that blue raspberry mixed with green apple 🤤🥰

A great beach. Very clean and wasn't busy at all. Plenty of lifeguards, too. Only downside was people blasting music from their cars towards the beach,but we didn't let that ruin our fun. I would highly recommend this beach if you're in the area. There is a parking lot but I'm not sure if it's paid or not.

Awesome place for a picnic. Flat sandy beaches, cool minerals wash up and there are little oyster shells everywhere. Good place for a dip in the summer or fall!

I love this place. Such a treasure

So peaceful here. The beach is beautiful. The people are friendly. I felt like I was on the ocean. The food in the area is great and the park is nice, too.

First time there to drop off my daughter for an event during the afternoon. Very empty, quiet and looked clean. I’d definitely like to go back to stay and enjoy it.

The beach itself was pretty clean and my children enjoyed it. I just wish the restrooms were cleaned better. The smell of urine was overwhelming

beautiful lakefront view you can see Chicago downtown skyline tranquil waters cool breeze the park leading to the beach serene mostly young folks enjoying themselves I grew up in neighborhood several blocks from rainbow beach always was the spot to chillax at .