Southampton Beach | Great Lakes Guide

Southampton beach is a beautiful sandy beach stretching for kilometres across the Lake Huron shoreline. It is the perfect spot to sit and enjoy a Lake Huron sunrise or sunset. Free parking and accessible washrooms available. The rare dune grass found on these shores makes this area an excellent migration route for Appellation birds and Songbirds. From the beach, you can spot Chantry Island a little ways off the coast - it is a migratory bird sanctuary spanning 19 hectares and available only by tour boat.

Check out Gerry's Fast Food and the historic boardwalk and Pioneer Park while you're here.

Beach photo by Bill Edwards from Flickr

Water Quality

Passes water quality tests 95%+ of the time.

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Traditional Territories

Anishinaabeg
Odawa

Treaties

Saugeen Treaty 45 1/2, 1836

Languages

Anishinaabe
Odawa

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