Popham Beach State Park

This is a beautiful family-friendly beach. Plenty of parking, including handicap spots. There are parking/admission fees, but senior citizens get in free. Clean beach, with a moderate walk to the sand. The perfect place to gather seashells and sand dollars. Picnic tables are near the parking area. Restrooms are clean, and located at both ends of the parking lot. Seagulls are hungry and bold.
8 years ago (16-09-2017)

Great kid-friendly, clean, sandy beach; it's one of our favorites. Especially fun at low tide when you can walk to the island. Beware: the parking tends to fill up during the middle of the day in the busy season. Try to get there before 10:00am or after 2:00. Also, beware of the VERY aggressive seagulls. They will swoop down and steal lunch right from your hands between bites. They will rummage through your bags as soon as you walk away. Eat under an umbrella and keep your food locked in a cooler or zipped up in a bag. Amazing beach despite the parking and seagull difficulties.
8 years ago (05-09-2017)

Wonderful! Beautiful vistas, long beach to roam, cleanest water I've ever seen. Big parking lot. You can swim here, in fact you won't notice the 60° water because it's so darn beautiful. Bring a wet suit or at least a swim top and jump in. Long walk to the right brings you to a lagoon that stays warm in summer. This is a special find for a day long outting at one of the prettiest spots within a short drive of Kennebunk. We visited in fall. Leaves were just starting to turn. Not sure if it's crowded in summer. It was pleasantly quiet in early Oct. No waves, calm, serene, great for photos and you can walk for over an hour.
8 years ago (16-11-2017)

What a great beach and fun civil war fort... However the huge clumps of horse fecal matter on the beach was lame. On the path to the beach and all over... literally all over the beach. That and the many horses running around with overweight females in various states of control of them. Maybe it was bring your unruly horse to the beach day? Anyway we had to leave early because of the dangers of large animals squishing our children and the day had no wind so the stink if horse pooh and the constant stepping over and around pooh piles rather ruined our picnic idea... oddly I got asked not to vape at the beach... but apparently copious amounts of horse pooh is fine.
8 years ago (18-10-2017)

A great beach for swimming, reading a book, beach combing or sun bathing. A nice family beach with a Lifeguard on duty until 4:00p.m during the week. Any form of a Military ID (active duty, retired, reserve) gets you in get in free! Its a clean, beautiful beach. NO form of any life preservers can be worn here! They offer public restrooms and changing rooms. Watch out for the Sea Gull's, they are very aggressive and will take your food anyway they can! Do not leave food unattended!
8 years ago (06-08-2017)