Atlantic Dunes Park

Having checked out Deerfield Beach and Boyton Beach, Atlantic Dunes Park was my favorite. ADP is slightly less crowded than Deerfield Beach, but had more of a crowd than Boynton Beach.
PARKING: There is a lot across the street for $ 1.50 an hour.
Boynton Beach parking is $ 10 per day. At Deerfield Beach, lot parking is around $ 15 for 3 hours. You can look for street parking, but it can be a hassle.
BEACH: Lots of clean, white sand, clear water — just how I like it. There are chairs and umbrellas to rent for $ 10 an hour or $ 40 a day. Plenty of space to bring your own chairs, blankets, and umbrellas. A lifeguard is on duty and I even saw him caution beachgoers to come in when they were out too far in the water. (That was a first!) Atlantic Dunes Park also has a bathroom facility with outdoor showers.
If you’re looking for vendors and stores and a little more drama check out Deerfield Beach. If you’d prefer less people and some food vendors, check out Boynton Beach.

This is my go-​to beach while staying at the my home away from home in Delray. Easy parking lot across the street with meter stations ($ 1.50/hour), bathroom facilities with outdoor showers and a nice wide sand area between entering and being at the waters’ edge which is always free from debris and seaweed. Sand is always white and clean as well. There are often surfers and windsurfers here, so that can be entertaining to watch. There are umbrellas and cushioned lounge chairs for rent, however, I prefer to simply lay on my towel and feel the sand beneath me. A win-​win all around and I always look forward to returning when I am in town.

Nice beach, they offer the chair and umbrella rental but you can bring your own. They have bathrooms and showers too. Lot across the street is 1.50 an hour to park. Wasn’t to crowded

Nice clean public beach with paid parking at $ 1.50 per hour. I went on a Monday afternoon and it wasn’t too crowded.

thiis beach is great on so many levels. Beach is well kept, serviced, and clean. Great ocean beach services, chairs, umbrellas. Logan is the best. Polite friendly and helpful.

Was here yesterday and it was so beautiful! Nice and clean, parking can drive you a little crazy at times but I get lucky someone is always leaving lol.

This place is a gem. It’s a short drive south down A1A from the much much busier and impossible-​to-​find-​parking access points just north by Atlantic Ave. There are two public pay lots right across the street, and I’ve never had any trouble finding parking.
The beach — even when «crowded» — never really feels that way. It’s very large and there’s plenty of room to spread out. The city contacts a company which offers lounge chairs and umbrellas (2 chairs + umbrella for $ 10/​hr or $ 40/​day). It’s a great deal, and the setup is pretty comfortable.
The beach itself is on par for an Atlantic Ocean beach — the sand has more shells than in some other places, but still comfortable to walk on. The damaged done by Sandy a few years back totally wiped this place out, so it’s nice to see it restored.
No walkable food here, but there are clean (well, clean enough) bathrooms, an area with showers to rinse off, and a pretty decent picnic area.
All in all, great place — especially if you have a car and don’t mind being a little bit away from downtown.

I don’t know why I had never visited this particular beach before. I’ve always entered the beach from Atlantic Avenue, which is always so crowded. This beach is so clean and there are even umbrellas and chairs available for rent if you want ($ 10/​hour or $ 40/​day for two chairs and an umbrella).
There’s a nice picnic area and public restrooms up by the street as well. On this particular day, the water was so incredibly clear. I was out all the way to my waist and could still see my feet (I’m 5’8″).
This will be my new go-​to beach. I’m glad I ventured away from Atlantic!

Actually this is quite cute. Huge beach area, I mean probably the biggest I’ve seen in SoFlo in a long time. Very very quite. Definitely retirees or familes with kids then the vs. The Spring Break Crowd that can be associated with Fort Lauderdale Beach.
There’s metered parking across the street, but get there early or you won’t get a spot. There’s no food or drinks that I saw anywhere around so make sure you pack something to bring with you. They did have a bathroom facility (other than the ocean water :)).

Perfect beach spot for us to bike to, wish they had a bigger bike rack & really wish parking was easier for residents! Otherwise it’s beautiful, peaceful & great place to plop and enjoy living here! Love that not many tourists come here!

A quiet piece if paradise. Very nice beach. Clean easy parking and not many people. I am a Miami Beach kinda guy due to the clear waters. Once you you go north of Broward the beach starts getting greener and darker sand. Other than that it was nice.

It’s very disturbing that there seems to be so little public beach access in this area of South Florida. Finding myself in southern Palm Beach County and wanting to take a dunk in the ocean, I noticed a small beach access point in Boca, but the parking area appeared to be full. Whatever, I figured, I’d drive just a little, and SURELY there’d be another small beach park not too far up the road.
I was wrong. I kept driving and driving up A1A for miles, noticing nothing to my right except fancy homes, resorts, and condos. I guess that in the 561, they want to keep the common rabble like me off the beach. Occasionally, I’d see a little wooden walkway to the shore, but those did me no good at all, as there seemed to be zero public parking nearby.
Finally, after it felt like I’d already driven halfway to Martin County, I noticed this Atlantic Dunes Park, and, score! — it appeared to be open to the common man, with ample PUBLIC PARKING across the street!
The beach up here is a bit more rustic than that found down in Miami, but I appreciate that. This is a nice little facility. Crossing Ocean Blvd and walking in the park entrance, to your right you’ll find a shower, and a pavillion housing clean restrooms. Clean public restrooms at a beach? You won’t find that anywhere on South Beach, that’s for damn sure. Short walk over the dunes, and there’s the Atlantic we all know and love. With a narrow ribbon of sand, it looks much more like a «natural» seashore than one would find at points further south. This is more my kind of beach.

This is the beach I go to on those rare occations when I feel like going to the beach. The beach is clean and the water is clean. They have shower heads and faucets to rince off when you leave the beach. You can walk across the street to grab some food if you get hungry. A very nice beach, never too crowded.

This is our preferred beach for a quick family swim (2 hours or less), when in Delray Beach. It’s just north of Linton Blvd, so you can get to it quickly from inland Delray. And much less crowded than the beaches closer to downtown. So you can get in and out quickly.
Pros:
Lifeguards on duty in a real tower
Not crowded
Ample parking in the municipal lot, even on the weekend
$ 1 an hour (nothing compared to Chicago!)
Parking lot machine takes credit cards
Short walk to the beach (100 meters?)
Freshwater open shower
Fewer beach bodies, more of us normal fat people
Clean beach and grounds
Cons:
No public building facilities (showers, toilets are still being built)
Porta-​potties x 2
Umbrella and lounge chair rental is rather steep ($ 30/​day, $ 10/​hour)
Only one shower head
You have to scamper across the busy 2 lane S. Ocean Blvd to get from the parking lot to the beach. Use the crosswalk.