A great park, walking distance to both the waterfront and the marina. You can park in the garage if you get there early in the morning or do the paid parking along the shore. The playground is equipped with swings, slides and splash zones for the kids( not to much covering). We recommend going early before the suns to high and the play equipment gets too hot.

BBQ peacefully

Easily one of the best vantage points to take in the city’s bold picturesque skyline, especially at dusk/night. Love coming here to unwind and refocus. The park district does a nice job maintaining the LFT walking & biking paths—along with keeping the beaches clean during the beach season. Just a short 1 mi hike north to McCormick Place/2 mi to Museum Campus/3mi to Hyde Pk, the 31st Street Beach is what I like to call the heart of the Lakefront Trail. Chicago is fortunate to have so many miles of beautiful shoreline parks & trails. 🌇🌊

Had bad experience cause by stinky garbage all around the parking. Please pickup your belongings people. But love the view here. Wish we could come again. There was a women, kind of have mental issues had tried to push us away by touching our belongings and take off her panty infront of our kid. We stay away and people are running out of this beach. What should we do in this situation???

No grills of any type welcomed and I'm grateful. This like most of the beach, is a beautifully constructed and well thought-out landscape. In addition to the restaurant, skate park, playground, and lush grounds this seating area is a gorgeous bonus for lake front visitors. #inspiring. It's an awesome space for meditation early in the morning, writing in the afternoon and a romantic walk in the evening.

Cool place to enjoy with friends, for taking pics it's really good place, superb location and near to Lake meadows and prairie shore.

I love coming to this beach. It’s a perfect spot to view the skyline, go for a walk/run, or bike. Very diverse. Usually not too crowded either and pretty clean.

Prepare to wait for public parking. Good view of the city skyline, has a restaurant onsite, kid-friendly. Near the skatepark and Mccormick Place.

Rented a boat that launched from this beach and the views are incredible from here. It’s quiet and less crowded then any other beach.

Went to recharge and just enjoy the Sun rise. Took a stroll to a little prairie area. Peaceful and perfect

This Place is Awesome on Thursday afternoon through the evening. No other place in the city can you experience so many groan and sexy people having the time of their Life. This is what the city of Chicago is all about. Hope you get to have a positive experience there at least one time this summer. Most come every Thursday through out the summer to experience great House Music and Amazing people.

Nice place to chill. The ambience is quite calm and lovely.

I’ve been here so many times over the past few summers and some days the beach is completely trashed. People come, bbq, party and leave their trash everywhere. It’s so sad to see how ignorant so many people are. On good days the beach looks absolutely beautiful and the views of downtown look absolutely amazing. There’s always people everywhere which makes for a great atmosphere there is always music playing and people selling food and drinks.

Lots of garbage mixed with seaweed on the beach.

Great Beach with an excellent view! Located just north of the Harbor, this beach has a drop off steps from the sand. Newer facilities and a food service deck make this a must visit location!

Went in the late morning early afternoon and it was not crowded. Very nice beach.

Another beautiful “Beach” in Chicago for you to visit this spring/summer! Even though it was a bit of a bus ride away from me, I was so happy when I arrived and took in the view of the city & the lake all at once. Lovely place to go during the day or before the sun sets 😍🌆

Great beach. Has everything you would ask from a beach. Grass areas with lots of trees for shade. Paid parking, grass area and beach in close proximity so great for elderly. Also handicap access to the beach. Fast food restaurant, washrooms, outside shower and play area for kids with swings and slides. It connects to the lakefront trial. If you keep walking south you get to the basketball courts and skating area. Must visit.

Nice sunrise spot. I've been here many times early and had never seen people come for the beach.

4th of July was great! The food at the beach restaurant is surprisingly good!

Groups, crew's and open spaces for picnic and games fun.

Dirty, dirty, dirty. Go somewhere else. Definitely not worth it.

Really not much to say about going to the beach. I hadn't been there in a car since I was a kid. I got there early since it was the weekend of Lalapalooza, and the parking lots were clean and almost empty. The only problem I had was paying for the time I was planning on being there. I attempted to use my debit card, but the Internet connection the parking ticket machine used must have been dial up - extremely slow! After the transaction timed out, I wound up raiding my stash that I keep in my car for emergencies, and everything went fine. It got crowded on the bike path as expected later in the morning, but I still managed to have a good time.

Lovely beach filled with families.

Awesome place

(Translated by Google) Very nice beach but they already use it only to gather groups to go to drink and smoke and the truth is it is a public place but they must respect xk many children ke kieren enjoy nature! (Original) Muy linda playa pero ya la usan solo para juntarse grupos para ir a tomar y fumar y la verdad si es lugar público pero deben de respetar xk van muchos niños ke kieren disfrutar de la naturaleza!!

One of the best places in the Midwest! Absolutely beautiful and jaw dropping..

This place is the closest to Ocean Beach that Chicago can offer. There is a beautiful City skyline view from here Amazing to visit with friends and have fun

A beautiful relaxing lake front experience. It was very relaxing. Finding it is a bit challenging to find the entry to the parking lot, but well worth the effort. Take your lunch, relax and enjoy nature!

got to go

One of my favorite spots. You can enjoy the view of downtown high-rise buildings. You can BBQ there.

Beautiful landscape, and great views of the lakeshore and downtown high-rises. This is a great place to sit and relax and watch the water and Nature. The beach part is relatively small when compared to that at some other city beaches like North Avenue Beach or Rainbow Beach.

Just Wonderful

The 31st Street Harbor is an awesome and wonderful beach! I liked that they had a place area for kids and lots of sitting area to rest and do some sightseeing. They also had a beautiful landscape and picnic spots in bushes near the McCormick building. I would love to come and visit again here.

Family friendly. Great views. Always a good time.

Great beach and beautiful view of the city!

Relax beach. Not crowded. Pier play house music. Love the bass

Retarded administrator. They let people drive in all the way then theu tell them that the parking is full. So frustrating. When we left a decided to ask why there are no signs announcing the full parking, they said that they are there but no one read them. I'm pretty sure there was not 2 hours ago when we came. Anyhow if there was a sign that people can't read, its because its inadequately placed. Beside that they were selecting who enters to the parking lot, for others it was full. Frustrating way to spend the long waited day off!!

One of the less crowded beaches with a wonderful view of the skyline.

(Translated by Google) Nice beach, with a great view of the skyline! (Original) Schöner Strand, mit tollem Blick auf die Skyline!

so beautiful

Thursdays day party 🥳

A nice place to have a walk, swimming.

Swimming check amazing views check kept.clean check man i don't think I can remember anything wrong when me and my wife and our two couple friends went here for the weekend uugghh I still daydream as if I am there now definitely a top rated five star ace people if your near here get here

Love to come here to walk or have a picnic, even just read. The scenery is tranquil.

Wonderful park! Nice and clean. Fun for children. Awesome views of the city.

I had a wonderful time at the event at the 31st Street beach! The music was great and so was the crowd:-)