Delaware Seashore State Park, State park with ocean beaches and bays in Delaware, United States
The state park extends over 2825 acres of coastline, featuring six miles of Atlantic Ocean beaches and twenty miles of bay shoreline.
Two large steel and stone jetties, completed in 1939, stabilized the Indian River Inlet and made transportation along this barrier island possible.
The Indian River Life-Saving Station from 1876 functions as a maritime museum where staff demonstrate historical coastal rescue techniques.
The park maintains two ocean swimming areas with lifeguards, modern bathhouses, showers, changing rooms, and concession stands during summer months.
Visitors can explore salt marsh islands in Rehoboth Bay, observing diamondback terrapins, horseshoe crabs, and various shore birds in their natural habitat.
Location: Delaware
Inception: 1965
Operator: Delaware State Parks
Website: https://destateparks.com/park/delaware-seashore
GPS coordinates: 38.65000,-75.06640
Latest update: May 11, 2025 12:19
Delaware maintains a network of natural areas, historic sites and cultural institutions distributed across its three counties. In northern New Castle County, visitors find railroad museums, botanical gardens and forested state parks along Brandywine Creek, while the southern Kent and Sussex counties contain extensive coastal refuges, marshlands and Atlantic beaches. The state also preserves colonial-era sites, eighteenth-century plantations and regional history museums. Natural areas include Bombay Hook and Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuges, which serve as important stopover points for migratory birds, and Cape Henlopen and Delaware Seashore State Parks along the coast. Trap Pond State Park in the interior protects one of the northernmost bald cypress swamp forests in North America. Cultural sites range from the Hagley Museum, which documents early industrial history, to the Wilmington and Western Railroad and smaller institutions such as the Nanticoke Indian Museum and Johnson Victrola Museum. Historic structures include Fort Delaware, wooden covered bridges and the New Castle Court House Museum.
Indian River Inlet Bridge
4.7 km
Funland
7.2 km
Funland
7.2 km
Holts Landing State Park
8.6 km
Harmony Church
14.1 km
Indian Mission School
13.6 km
Jungle Jim's
7.5 km
Whitewater Mountain
11.6 km
Blackwater Presbyterian Church
14.3 km
St. George's Chapel, Lewes
13.9 km
Poplar Thicket
7 km
All Saints Episcopal Church
7.7 km
Peter Marsh House
8.5 km
Woman's Christian Temperance Union Fountain
7.4 km
Isaac Harmon Farmhouse
12.8 km
Dinker-Irvin House
12.5 km
Tunnell-West House
11.5 km
Spring Banke
12.6 km
Schellville Enchanted Winter Celebration
8.6 km
Evans–West House
11.7 km
Nanticoke Indian Museum
12.5 km
Indian River Life-Saving Station
1.8 km
Whiskey Beach
9.8 km
Joy Beach
6.8 km
Indian Beach
3.7 km
Rehoboth Beach
7.5 km
Bethany Beach
12.1 km
Rehoboth Beach Public Library
7.5 kmReviews
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