Top 10 US Beaches

[Dr. Blackheart]

Best US beaches for 2018
1. Kapalua Bay Beach, Maui, Hawaii
2. Ocracoke Lifeguarded Beach, Outer Banks, North Carolina
3. Grayton Beach State Park, Florida Panhandle
4. Coopers Beach, Southampton, New York
5. Coast Guard Beach, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
6. Lighthouse Beach, Buxton, Outer Banks, North Carolina
7. Caladesi Island State Park, Dunedin/Clearwater, Florida
8. Hapuna Beach State Park, Big Island, Hawaii
9. Coronado Beach, San Diego, California
10. Beachwalker Park, Kiawah Island, South Carolina

I have hit 6 of 10. Great list, not your typical list so I like the criteria he went through.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnn.com/travel/amp/top-beaches-united-states-2018/index.html

[4everwarriors]

Witch are da topless beaches, hey?

[MU82]

Witch are da topless beaches, hey?

Little Beach on Maui is not technically a nudist beach - because those are illegal - but, well, it is.

It's quite a spectacle.

[wadesworld]

I'm not sure what beach I went to in Cape Cod. Was only there for one day while out in Boston. If it was Coast Guard Beach then that's the only one on the list I've been to.

My favorite beach that I've been to is Cannon Beach on the Oregon Coast, but I don't think it's the type of beach that would be on this list. For much of the year I assume it's not much about swimming and beach activities, but it is beautiful.

[Dr. Blackheart]

Witch are da topless beaches, hey?

Ask your buddy Dick Bacon

[Dr. Blackheart]

I have been to 1, 2, 6, 8-10.  Not sure if Coronado would have made my Top 10.

[naginiF]

I'm not sure what beach I went to in Cape Cod. Was only there for one day while out in Boston. If it was Coast Guard Beach then that's the only one on the list I've been to.

My favorite beach that I've been to is Cannon Beach on the Oregon Coast, but I don't think it's the type of beach that would be on this list. For much of the year I assume it's not much about swimming and beach activities, but it is beautiful.

Coast Guard beach is awesome but it's pretty far from Boston - past the elbow - if you hit it for one day (depending on the time of year) that was some solid car time.  Well worth the trip - in the 20yrs i've lived in KC i've been to that beach more than i've been to Phog Allen Field House but i'm a Cape enthusiast. 

Beachwalker on Kiawah is also really cool, but i don't think it's the best beach on Kiawah.  if you go to the end of the island, past the Ocean Course (yes, that one), the beach is amazing. 

[🏀]

ZFB always has Sun Ray Hills in Burlington as #1.

[4everwarriors]

Ask your buddy Dick Bacon

Mr. Nude Dude's bin ded for years, hey?

[Jay Bee]

wahddup, Beeeeaaaacccchhhheeeeesss?

[PVMagic]

Bradford?

[NorthernDancerColt]

Coast Guard beach is awesome but it's pretty far from Boston - past the elbow - if you hit it for one day (depending on the time of year) that was some solid car time.  Well worth the trip - in the 20yrs i've lived in KC i've been to that beach more than i've been to Phog Allen Field House but i'm a Cape enthusiast. 

Beachwalker on Kiawah is also really cool, but i don't think it's the best beach on Kiawah.  if you go to the end of the island, past the Ocean Course (yes, that one), the beach is amazing.

I was lucky enough to be in the Charleston area for a week in the mid'90s right when the Ocean Course changed ownership groups. I got to play the Ocean course, host of the Ryder Cup, along with the Gary Player course (Cougar Point?) and Nicklaus course (name also escaping me) for $75 bucks a night, including lodging a wedge shot from the Ocean course. Surreal track. Yes, the beach you speak of is unreal. There was also a cool boat launch village on Kiawah, something like "Bohicket Creek."

[NorthernDancerColt]

Witch are da topless beaches, hey?

Don't sleep on Siesta Key Beach in the Sarasota area. Not topless, per se, but latenight when the bars close, sand shenanigans known to interfere with nesting sea turtle habitat.

During the day, you will see Amish people (large colony in the area) uncomfortably fully clothed on the same beach. Maybe the same ones rumspringa-ing at night.

[reinko]

Last time I checked Puerto Rico  is still part of the US, so any list without a beach from Vieques, or Culebra is flawed from the jump.

[Dr. Blackheart]

Mr. Nude Dude's bin ded for years, hey?

Urine ol laidy sez da saym ding bout u, ainer?

[Dr. Blackheart]

Last time I checked Puerto Rico  is still part of the US, so any list without a beach from Vieques, or Culebra is flawed from the jump.

Here are his rating criteria. States only and not territories, I read in one article, which is odd.

http://drbeach.org/online/dr-beachs-50-criteria/

[Dr. Blackheart]

Beachwalker on Kiawah is also really cool, but i don't think it's the best beach on Kiawah.  if you go to the end of the island, past the Ocean Course (yes, that one), the beach is amazing.

Agree.  Beachwalker, though, is the only public beach on the island. He rated only public coastal beaches, in which there are 650 in the States according to his website.

[UWW2MU]

Bradford?

http://fox6now.com/2016/07/04/its-awesome-usa-today-readers-rank-best-urban-beaches-and-milwaukees-bradford-beach-is-3/

[naginiF]

I was lucky enough to be in the Charleston area for a week in the mid'90s right when the Ocean Course changed ownership groups. I got to play the Ocean course, host of the Ryder Cup, along with the Gary Player course (Cougar Point?) and Nicklaus course (name also escaping me) for $75 bucks a night, including lodging a wedge shot from the Ocean course. Surreal track. Yes, the beach you speak of is unreal. There was also a cool boat launch village on Kiawah, something like "Bohicket Creek."

Osprey?

Agree.  Beachwalker, though, is the only public beach on the island. He rated only public coastal beaches, in which there are 650 in the States according to his website.

now that would make a ton of sense

[WarriorDad]

Witch are da topless beaches, hey?

That list also came out yesterday

http://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/best-nude-beaches-world/index.html?iid=ob_lockedrail_topeditorial

[warriorchick]

That list also came out yesterday

http://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/best-nude-beaches-world/index.html?iid=ob_lockedrail_topeditorial

The first rule of topless/nude beaches:

The overwhelming majority of  people who take advantage of it are the ones you don't want to see naked.

[WarriorDad]

The first rule of topless/nude beaches:

The overwhelming majority of  people who take advantage of it are the ones you don't want to see naked.

Yup.  They also are often at the stage of life where they don't give a damn and what they flaunt, to your point, is best unseen.

[Shaka Shart]

I'm not sure what beach I went to in Cape Cod. Was only there for one day while out in Boston. If it was Coast Guard Beach then that's the only one on the list I've been to.

My favorite beach that I've been to is Cannon Beach on the Oregon Coast, but I don't think it's the type of beach that would be on this list. For much of the year I assume it's not much about swimming and beach activities, but it is beautiful.

Lucky enough to live near enough for an easy day trip to cannon beach. You are right there's not a whole lot of swimming due to the water temperature but it that whole area of the coast is just spectacular. Lotta fresh crab too!

[StillAWarrior]

Sadly, I can't recall ever going to any of these beaches.  I think I probably went to Coronado as a kid, but I don't recall it.

Without question, the top beaches I ever went to were in Guam.  Sharks Cove is the beach by which all others will be measured for me.  My favorite beach ever, and nothing has ever come close.  The beaches on Tumon Bay were also incredible.

[dgies9156]

The first rule of topless/nude beaches:

The overwhelming majority of  people who take advantage of it are the ones you don't want to see naked.

Sister Chick, you hit that one square on the head of the nail. If you have to advertise, you have inferior merchandise.

My favorite beach is Wabasso Beach in Indian River County, FL. Nice, warm and great Atlantic surf.