Chautauqua Lake Beaches & Lake Erie NY Beaches | Chautauqua County Visitors Bureau

Grab a suit and towel, perhaps a beach chair or bucket and shovel, and head to any number of beaches with parks, playgrounds, rolling waves, or shallow water. Find sandy beaches and volleyball at Lake Erie’s Sunset Bay, beach glass hunting at Point Gratiot Park, a popular splash pad at Wright Park Beach, plan a Lake Erie beach vacation, or watch the sunset from a driftwood perch at Barcelona Harbor Beach. Chautauqua Lake and Cassadaga Lakes offer calmer waters for little ones and village settings for quick diversions.

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Barcelona Harbor Beach

Experience a Lake Erie sunset with wide beaches for walking, hiking, sunbathing, fishing, kayaking, canoeing, plus picnic tables, and free parking. Barcelona Harbor allows easy access to world-class deep water sport fishing,…

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Cassadaga Beach & Park

Lakefront park with playground, ball courts, and picnic tables. The beach is open and swimming is allowed when lifeguards are on duty. Free admission. Pickleball.

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Chautauqua Institution Beaches

Children’s Beach, by the Miller Bell Tower, provides a shallow swimming area and sand beach for youth and their families. Children unable to stand alone with their head above water or in need of flotation devices must…

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Hanover Town Beach

This sandy, life-guarded beach is located on the shores of Lake Erie. A public swimming beach, picnic pavilion, charcoal grills, playground, and restrooms.

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Lakeside Park

Located on Chautauqua Lake with a lifeguarded beach, pavilion, playground, lighted tennis courts, bathhouse, gazebo, picnic tables, grills, shuffleboard, ball field. Home of the annual Winter Festival in February. Public boat…

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Long Point State Park on Lake Chautauqua

Located on Chautauqua Lake - a 320 acre day-use park, (no camping) with swimming beach & bathhouse, playgrounds, hiking, biking, reserve-able picnic pavilions, public boat launch and marina with restaurant, marine…

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Point Gratiot Park

Lake Erie lakefront park with beach, playground, picnic area, pavilions, ballfields, restrooms. Trails for bicycling and fishing. No admission or parking fee. The "Point" is one of the most visited regions in…

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Richard O. Hartley Memorial Park

The Village of Lakewood is located at the southern end of Chautauqua Lake and offers the best of both worlds. The tranquil charm of the lakeside village is highlighted at Hartley Park with a public lifeguarded beach, beach…

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Sunset Bay Beach Club

Sunset Bay Beach Club opens for the year in May and the beach remains open through Labor Day. 5 acres of clean, sandy, life-guarded beach located on the shores of Lake Erie. The Sunset Bay beach area has volleyball…

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Wright Park

Lake Erie lakefront park with Lifeguarded Beaches, Ballfields, Basketball Court, Splash Pad, Pickleball Courts, Picnicking, Futsal Court. Great Views of Lake Erie.

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