Park Point Beach And Beach House

This is a great area to walk on in long beach. There are also paved trails to walk. We arrived on a Thursday afternoon and it wasn't crowded at all. But it was extremely dirty! In addition, you can tell that they do not keep up the park. The paved paths were overgrown with weeds. It was disappointing that the city doesn't take more pride in such a beautiful area.

Beautiful beach! Love looking for rocks on this beach. Took my husband and I about 3 hours to walk from the air port to the point! Long but totally worth it!

It's incredible and uncrowded, but the woods nearby are full of poison ivy.

A bit crowded but overall nice. It would be good if there was a better place to change than the few restroom stalls as we had not considered that before coming. Still good to have that and a shower to wash off at even though that also seems quite small compared to the size and busyness of the beach. Still, at least it is all free!

Rated one of the best beaches in the country for a reason. With beautiful soft sand and excellent views of the lake, this beach is a must visit year-round.

It is a great family favorite. It is a nice free beach with restrooms and lifeguards. There is a large free parking lot and a small park too. We love to come here with the kids. It is possible to walk the entire beach. But don't have too many plans. It takes about 3 hours walk one way.

This sets the tone of your Northern experience. For the North Shore this is as good as it gets. Sunny days are better because there are not many of these around here.

This beach is listed as one of the USA’s top 25 beaches for a reason! It is the world’s longest sandbar, and you can wade out really far. The water is crystal clear, there are bathrooms in the beach house, and there are lifeguards. My family goes to this beach as much as we can in the summer.

Used to study on the beach here, now I walk it with my dogs or friends to catch up and listen to the boats come in. Pets are suppose to be on leash on the MN side, but seem to be fine off leash on the WI side (: some people don't mind off leash controlled pups on the leashes side tho. Deer flies can be a bother in the summer months.

Great beach, tons of room so not crowded at all. Also shallow a distance out which is great for kids. Super soft sand, and goes for quite a distance.

I grew up near Cloquet and we always used to cross the Aerial Lift Bridge to get here (the only way in or out by land) This park has a lot of space, lots of parking either on the harbor side or the Lake Superior side. Many interesting homes on the way out to the point. All these years, I thought that the end was the small airport at the end. I noticed this time that many people were parking just before the airport where there is a wooden boardwalk to go towards the lake to the beach but there was also a gap next to a gate for a service road behind the airport. We walked down that road to find several trails with the main trail continuing on past the airport with many side trails. It was a nice hike, some Sandy beach type walking, so have the right shoes. The views and tranquility of the wildlife was great. I couldn't stop taking photos. This park is fun to visit anytime of the year. I have been here in the hot summer, the beautiful fall colors and even in the winter when the ice from Lake Superior blew up into piles on the Beach from high winds. If you take the trail/service road behind the airport, there is Minnesota Point which has several wildlife conservation areas. Enjoy my photos. I can't wait to go back!

Unfortunately, yelp places the map directions for this beautiful, Duluth, MN park in the middle of Sioux Falls, SD. I will try to rectify that here: Take I35 to S Lake Ave. Keep following Lake Ave over the Ariel Lift Bridge on to Park Point Island. Eventually, Lake Ave turns into Minnesota Ave, but it's still the same road. Follow the road until you can't go any further, about 4 miles. You'll see beautiful sand dune-y beaches and a Coast Guard station. Further south down the beach, you'll see a stand of woods. Shuffle your way over there to find numerous linear dirt paths that all amble in the same direction. Just a note: it is impossible to get lost on the trails that traverse this long, narrow, French bread-shaped island. Park Point is a wild, beautiful, abandoned place that time forgot, but teenagers looking to get wasted did not. Nor did lots of day hikers and beach-goers, so don't let the aforementioned description rattle you. Wayward youths usually do the things wayward youth do here at night. And anyways, are they really all that "wayward?" I mean, let's be honest. We've all been there. Okay, some of us. It takes an additional 30-40 minutes to hike the rest of the way to the sea wall at Minnesota Point. If you hew closer to the southern shore you will see abandoned resort cabins, and the skeletal husk of Minnesota's oldest light house. You'll also find an incredibly creepy but fascinating "Coast Guard Buoy Depot." I don't even know what that means, aside from the fact there are empty brick buildings with colorful, drug-related graffiti everywhere and empty 40's of malt liquor. There is also a chamber with a solid, rusted steel door that looks like the kind of place you might find a kidnap victim in a horror movie. Bring your binoculars for a better view of birds of prey as well as the taconite ore freighter traffic coming and going from Duluth Harbor. About 15 paces south of the "Buoy Depot" in a little stand of woods is a dilapidated outhouse with--I shit you not--a "his" and "her's" side-by-side toilet seat. The "her's" is round while the "his" has a hole cut to the shape of a penis. Well, it's nice to know somebody had a sense of humor back here. The beautiful paths take you through dunes, stands of mature pines, and wild roses, but they also go through lots of poison ivy. I'm sure many an amorous encounter among area youths ended badly out here when a roll in the hay ended up being a roll in massive doses of oral steroids at urgent care due to caustic, phytochemical dermatitis. There are deer out here, and on rare summer days, maybe once every few years, the lake warms up enough to swim at these beautiful beaches on the north side. If you try that, watch out for ledges, drop-off's and dangerous currents. Lake Superior is more ocean than lake.