Adopted Beaches
We encourage volunteers to adopt the beach that they "love" or frequent often. Over 30 beaches have been adopted since the program's beginning in 2010. As the program grows, descriptions and pictures will be added to this page to give viewers an idea of the scope of the Adopt a Beach program.
Manchester-by-the-Sea
White and Black Beaches
Lobster Cove
Black Cove Beach has been adopted by the 5th graders and their teachers at the Brookwood School. They visit Black Cove (nicknamed Stinky Beach because of the eelgrass that washes ashore) to do beach profiling,
species identification, water quality monitoring, and beach clean-ups
throghout the year.
Beverly
West Beach
Patch Beach
Woodbury Beach
Rices Beach
Lynch Park and its beaches have become a Carry-in, Carry-out Park - the first in Beverly. The beachkeepers will be helping other volunteers clean up the park until users learn that they have to take with them what they bring in.
Dane Street Beach
Independence Park Beach
Sandy Point Beach's Adopt a Beach team started the Sandy Point Association, which has had regular beach cleanups and tackled some problems such as an unkempt boat rack on the beach.
Gillis Park Beach
Danvers
Sandy Beach
Salem
Collins Cove
Dead Horse Beach
Winter Island - Waikiki Beach and others
Derby Wharf Beach
Palmer Cove Beach
Forest River Park Beaches
Marblehead
Stramski Beach
Grace Oliver Beach
Gas House Beach
Fort Seward and Lobster Shanty Beaches
Riverhead/Devereux Beaches
Swampscott
Eisman Beach
Whales Beach
Galloupes Point Beach
Nahant
Short Beach
Tudor Beach