Best Beaches In & Near Bridgeport

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Contents
  1. Silver Sands State Park
  2. Pleasure Beach
  3. Fairfield Beach
  4. Sherwood Island State Park
  5. Calf Pasture Beach
  6. Greenwich Point Park
  7. Lighthouse Point
  8. Hammonasset Beach
  9. Cedar Beach
  10. Orchard Beach
  11. Bridgeport beaches map
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  • 1. Silver Sands State Park

    Silver Sands State Park
    Adavyd

    Travel time from Bridgeport: approx 0.5 hrs

    Around 15 miles southwest of New Haven in Milford, Silver Sands Beach is located in the southwest corner of Silver Sands State Park, close to the Beaver's Dam scenic lookout. Running continuously with Walnut Beach, Silver Sands Beach is backed by a 1.2 km boardwalk suitable for wheelchairs and prams, which takes visitors over rehabilitated salt marsh.

    The beach is protected in part by breakwaters and The Bar (or Tombolo),… read more »

  • 2. Pleasure Beach

    Pleasure Beach
    Bill

    Travel time from Bridgeport: approx 0.5 hrs

    Pleasure Beach stands guard at the entrance to Bridgeport Harbour. On the same narrow barrier beach peninsula as the better-known Long Beach, Pleasure Beach has a much more natural appearance. Its pale sand is mixed with shingle and pebbles from Long Island Sound, alongside occasional pockets of coastal grasses and areas of washed-up seaweed.

    Brought back to life in 2014, the area around Pleasure Beach had been Connecticut's largest ghost… read more »

  • 3. Fairfield Beach

    Fairfield Beach
    © Joe Shlabotnik

    Travel time from Bridgeport: approx 0.5 hrs

    Fairfield Beach comprises approximately five miles of wide sandy beach on Long Island Sound. It forms a narrow spit or peninsula which runs continuously between Pine Creek Point to the south and Shoal Point to the north, the closest stretch of land to Penfield Reef.

    Fairfield Beach's Long Island Sound location has made it a prime spot for building, with almost its entire length lined with often grandiose beachfront properties. These… read more »

  • 4. Sherwood Island State Park

    Sherwood Island State Park
    © Noroton

    Travel time from Bridgeport: approx 0.5 hrs

    Sherwood Island lies to the south and east of Westport, at exit 18 of the I-95. Sherwood Beach is located on the island's southeast shore, and runs between the outlet of Greens Farms Brook and Sherwood Point, the island's southernmost extent.

    Approximately half a mile in length, Sherwood Beach can have three different colours of sand when conditions on Long Island Sound are right and its waves divide the grains into… read more »

  • 5. Calf Pasture Beach

    Calf Pasture Beach
    Jllm06

    Travel time from Bridgeport: approx 0.5 hrs

    Calf Pasture Beach is located roughly midway between New Haven and the New York state line. Facing south into Long Island Sound, the beach is officially open from May until October of each year. During these months lifeguards are on duty, while visitors can use facilities including public bathrooms.

    Some of the earliest records for Calf Pasture Beach are from the seventeenth century, when early settlers used its peninsula as cattle… read more »

  • 6. Greenwich Point Park

    Greenwich Point Park
    Jllm06

    Travel time from Bridgeport: approx 1 hr

    Greenwich Point Park Beach is located on a narrow peninsula of land that juts out from the northern shoreline of Long Island Sound. A private beach with public access via a day pass system costing around $10 per person plus parking, it was known to the Siwanoy people as Monakewego, or 'shining sands.'

    Visit at low tide and you'll see exactly why, although most beachgoers choose to wear beach shoes or… read more »

  • 7. Lighthouse Point

    Lighthouse Point
    © Stu99

    Travel time from Bridgeport: approx 0.5 hrs

    The beach at Lighthouse Point forms a dog-leg around the southern and western end of Lighthouse Point Park, in the East Shore district just south of downtown New Haven. This city beach is therefore an ideal spot from which to admire the natural beauty of Long Island Sound, in addition to Five Mile Point Light, a lighthouse dating from 1847.

    Lighthouse Point Beach comprises an area of sand approximately 250 yards… read more »

  • 8. Hammonasset Beach

    Hammonasset Beach
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    Travel time from Bridgeport: approx 1 hr

    Just over a hundred years ago, in July 2020, Hammonasset Beach State Beach opened to the public. It has been a popular destination ever since. Easy to access from I-95 Exit 62 and close to Madison, CT it attracts over a million visitors each year.

    Once a settlement for native American Indians, the name "Hammonasset" means "place where we dig holes in the ground". By 1898 the Winchester Rifle Company… read more »

  • 9. Cedar Beach

    Cedar Beach
    Terry Ballard

    Travel time from Bridgeport: approx 1 hr

    A landscape as far from the skyscrapers of New York City as it's possible to get, New York State's Cedar Beach in Babylon lies on the long and narrow Jones Beach Island, itself off the southern shores of Long Island. Facing out into the waters of the New York Bight, Cedar Beach comprises a huge area of broadly flat pale sand.

    Home to numerous beach volleyball courts (used by the… read more »

  • 10. Orchard Beach

    Orchard Beach
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    Travel time from Bridgeport: approx 1 hr

    A lovely broad stretch of clean sand, Orchard Beach edges Pelham Bay for a length of well over a mile. Brought to a definitive stop at either end of the bay by stone seawalls, it faces out towards Long Island from the East Bronx on Long Island Sound.

    Part of Pelham Bay Park, the beach is subdivided into 13 sections backed by a paved promenade spotted with food stores and other… read more »

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