Ocean Beach Park

Cameron Tylek

Simply put, the worst part about this beach are the people who go here. Beach parking is $25 on weekdays & $30 on the weekend. You cannot leave and come back, you have to pay again. They STILL charge for parking after 6pm! The beach area is nice. The sand is soft white, and very fine. The beach area itself is very wide, with plenty of room to set up from the boardwalk all the way to the edge of the water. NOTE: they *do not* allow beach umbrellas to be set up in the areas from where the lifeguards sit to the water line. They will make you move your umbrellas to any area behind where the lifeguards sit. It would be helpful if this policy was written anywhere, or if there was a sign placed. It's annoying to set up, only to have a lifeguard make you move and re-set up. It happened to multiple people throughout the day, and every one of them annoyed. There are buoys set up in the water, 20-30 feet from the shore, and the lifeguards are constantly whistling when swimmers go past them. Very annoying, especially considering they're absolutely not far out. There is a Kiddie Play area where you can buy tokens to ride small carnival rides. It's $10 for an unlimited ride wristband on MONDAYS. There is a waterslide area with 4 waterslides, $4 per slide or $14 for an unlimited slide wristband ($10 on Wednesday) There is a large Olympic sized swimming pool, $10 to enter. You can come and go all day with the wristband on. There is a FREE small splash park next to the pool, as well as a playground next to that. You can buy hot food and drink on the small boardwalk. Beware, a fried dough costa $15! Ocean Beach Park has lots to offer other than just a beach. My kids loved going to the pool, and spent more time there than they did in the ocean, and they wanted to come back. The PROBLEM with Ocean Beach Park is the people who go here. Almost every other group of people have loud music playing, we tried to set up away from people with speakers, but, they're everywhere, and seem to be more frequent here than other beaches. As others have said, the pot smoking was a constant throughout the day. You could smell it coming from different directions throughout the entire beach. At one point I had to leave the ocean water because a family was spitting out mouthfuls of watermelon and it was just everywhere floating in the water. All in all, I would rather explore other beaches in the area before returning here. Misquamicut isn't that much further down.

Melissa D

My mom ran a half marathon that started here. We spent the day and it was relaxing. Looking forward to going back at the next race 🙂 This was last year

Andree “LoLo” D

Out of all the beaches I have gone to, this by far is the best one. The setup of the beach is really convenient. The beach is clean. Cool restaurant and gift shop. Outdoor shower is available. My only complaint is how long it took for us to get in. The line to pay took us a whole hr to get in. I'm hoping that it was because it was memorial day. I would totally go back again.

DJ H

Very well kept beach with a nice boardwalk and small amusement park. We visited here during the winter so the amusement park was close. However the beach was very clean.