Foss Beach — Attraction in Rye

Google Maps will take you close or hopefully to the small parking 🅿️ area along RT 1A. The Google reviews I have seen are accurate. The other non Google reviews about sand and being dog 🐕 friendly are incorrect. It's connected to Rye North Beach ⛱️ so I think 🤔 that is where the mix-up happens. It's a section of the coast that is accessible to the public during low tide 🌊. It's all 🪨 rocks with seaweed and periwinkles. Seagulls like to hang out here. People will walk out and explore. Some will look for tide pools and search 🔍 for green crabs and other sea life. I don't know if Foss Beach is named after the Foss family. They use to own Foss Manufacturing. Foss and Tate Sotheby's International Reality is part of the same family. I hope the parking area will be repaved. I just looked at Foss Beach as a chance to walk as close as I could to an...

The park pictures of grass and tables are actually about a mile south at Rye Harbor State Park. This is just a point with a few parking spots to take in the view. It is completely rocky.

Between here and the state park though there is free parking along RT 1 with beach access. About a half mile south there is a nice beach behind the rocks -- though no sand...

There’s a reason you can park here on a weekend day during summer. Simply a lackluster, seaweed-strewn rocky beach that only exists during low tide. Not a great beach for sunbathing but there is an excellent view of the ocean and Isles of Shoals. Not a bad place for a picnic on the rocks if you’ve stopped for food across the street at...