Park Point
Beach · Duluth, Minnesota
A seven-mile spit of sand running out from Duluth into Lake Superior, generally described as the longest freshwater baymouth sandbar in the world — a residential street with a genuine dune beach on one side and a working harbour on the other, reached by driving over the Aerial Lift Bridge. At the far end the Park Point Recreation Area has the beach proper, a pine barren behind it that is a nationally significant bird stopover, and the ruins of a lighthouse from 1858. The water is Lake Superior, which means it is beautiful and about four degrees.
4700 Minnesota Avenue, Duluth, Minnesota, 55802, United States
Open year round and free. The Park Point Recreation Area beach has lifeguards during a short summer season only, typically mid-June to mid-August during posted daytime hours; the remaining seven miles are unsupervised at all times. Parking at the recreation area is free and fills on hot weekends, and surrounding streets are residential with enforced restrictions. Road access is over the Aerial Lift Bridge, which lifts for shipping several thousand times a year.