Top rated Beaches in New York, United States to elevate your visit (Updated December, 2023)

Top rated Beaches in New York

Experience the best that New York has to offer with our curated list of top-rated places. Sorted by average review scores from venues boasting over 30 reviews, these establishments promise exceptional quality and experiences to elevate your visit in the city. This list contains 18 places from Beach category.

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Coney Island Beach

Beach

Vintage 3-mile sandy seaside with a boardwalk, amusements, fairground rides & seasonal lifeguards.

4.50 (1.6K reviews)

The People's Beach at Jacob Riis Park

Beach

National Parks Service beach featuring a 1932 art deco bathhouse, plus concessions & ball courts.

4.50 (1.4K reviews)

Rockaway Beach

Beach

👍 Cool beach. Although located in a sketchy part of queens. Once u get on the beach its clean, good young fun crowd, pets allowed. Water is great.

4.50 (1.4K reviews)

South Beach

Beach

👍👍 A relaxing beach that is away from it all but still close to everything. Lifeguards are present and there are showers, restrooms and a few eateries. Misting sprinklers under the main pagoda. Free sunscreen available (30 spf) Boardwalk available for biking, boarding or strolling. Pet waste bags...

4.50 (157 reviews)

Brighton Beach

Beach

😠 This place is truly a reflection of those who come there. It’s a beautiful place itself but it’s so so dirty and disgusting. People leave trash wherever they want including glass, alcohol bottles and plastic. Kids play with sand but the same time some other families bring their dogs and cars to do...

4.50 (78 reviews)

Beach In Fort Washington Park

Beach

👍👍 An interesting area. The bottom is sandy. Not rock or mud as might be expected. Except I was swimming here at low tide and the bottom is very muddy if you go out a bit. As the area creates a bit of a cove, its kind of sheltered from the Hudson River currents. One day I was here when there was a...

4.50 (60 reviews)

Cedar Grove Beach

Beach

👍👍 One of my favorite beaches in 🗽 New York very clean , excellent view, nice people around and the water is amazing there . I highly recommend this place to go with family and friends

4.50 (57 reviews)

Midland Beach

Beach

👍👍 Nice wide beach. There are fast charging EV station in Lot 8.

4.40 (2K reviews)

Manhattan Beach

Beach

👍👍 Lots of people but a smaller beach with a shallow shore and spots are all nice! The neighborhood doesn't have street parking on weekends and holidays, so next time we would try to come on a weekday to avoid the $24 parking lot. There's a park nearby where there are lots of parties and barbecues, too...

4.40 (272 reviews)

Hallett's Cove Beach

Beach

👍👍 My dog swam out 50 yards, but the current did not sweep her away. Also the sunsets here are magnifico. Also there’s trash. But it’s local, sand-fed trash. Legend has it that the spirit of William Hallett visits the beach every 77 years. His next appearance is scheduled for July 7, 2027.

4.40 (104 reviews)

South Beach

Beach

👍 Nice wide beach, great views of the Verrazano bridge and the islands. Some plastic litter in the sand - sad that the birds will end up eating it and dying

4.40 (42 reviews)

Riis

Beach

👍👍 It's relieving to find a queer and trans friendly beach! For anyone visiting, it's usually the section towards the left when you're facing the water. The sand isn't too rocky here which is nice. There is a burger a fries stand and gendered bathrooms on site, but the men's bathroom has plenty of stal...

4.40 (31 reviews)

Orchard Beach

Beach

Oceanfront, 115-acre beach featuring a promenade, a central pavilion, 2 playgrounds & picnic areas.

4.30 (1.6K reviews)

Orchard Beach and Promenade

Beach

😠 Love only when there is SALSA BANDS! Half of the time the bathrooms are so dirty and smelly and infested with Mosquitoes!!! I would go enough to enjoy for a few songs then leave! With all the money it makes they should always keep the bathrooms at all time clean and smelling good it's a shame woma...

4.30 (890 reviews)

Great Kills Beach

Beach

😐 This beach has so much wasted potential and it's frustrating. It's beautiful beach to walk on but it has been overrun with fishermen in which most of them do not care about the state of the beach and it's covered in garbage. Also, because it is overrun with fishermen, it's impossible to enjoy walkin...

4.30 (100 reviews)

Plumb Beach (Gateway National Recreation Area)

Beach

👍👍 Really great "secret spot" type beach, lots of aquatic life on the shores, hidden paths, sand dunes, marshes and streams. Coming here during low tide is amazing. The water depth doesn't change for a while, you can walk all the way out into the ocean a few hundred feet from shore and you'll still be...

4.20 (827 reviews)

seagate beach

Beach

😠 It’s a gated community so they didn’t let me in so I stopped by the next corner cony island beach

4.10 (54 reviews)

Pier 4 Beach

Beach

😐 Nothing crazy! I wouldn’t call that beach just because there is some sand on the floor. The water is so dirty that you can’t even go in it. View is definitely amazing and the place is relaxing!

4.00 (78 reviews)

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Top rated Beaches in New York, United States