Summertime means Beach Time!! We’re lucky in Massachusetts to have a good amount of coastline (and islands!) meaning a relative abundance of awesome beaches.
Stacker considered a variety of factors to determine the best beach towns in Massachusetts. To be considered a beach town, it needed at least one beach on the Environmental Protection Agency’s National List of Beaches. The EPA list includes beaches that are used recreationally and open to the public for free or for a fee.
As you’d expect much of this list is made up of towns from the Cape and the Islands – but not all of them are! In fact, the town that finished at #2 on Stacker’s list, rubbing elbows with the big dogs, is a bit of a surprise. See if you’re surprised below as well.
The Top 15 Best Beach Towns were determined using the following four factors: number of beaches monitored through the BEACH Act, total shoreline of those beaches, access to beach-related businesses based on Census Bureau County Business Patterns, and Zillow median home prices.
Massachusetts has over 1,500 miles of shoreline to explore – over 15 saltwater ocean beaches and more than 50 inland, fresh-water beaches are available for locals to set down that beach chair at and relax.
If you’re looking to go hit the beach and bare it all – Massachusetts has one of the best nude beaches in the country per THIS survey. Click here to find out where the Bay State’s most nationally-renowned nude beach is. So obviously there’s a variety. of beaches for almost every kind of beach-lover in Massachusetts.
So let’s get to those rankings! These are the Best Beach Towns in Massachusetts. If you’re town didn’t make the Top Fifteen, please direct your complaints to Stacker. I’m simply the messenger and fully agree with you that your town and it’s gorgeous beaches should be on here!
