All the way from Linkletter Provincial Park Beach to Myrick Shore Beach on Sunday. What a day! We experienced 20 PEI beaches. All week I’ll be sharing them with you.
But first
The eastern part of PEI has this brochure about their beaches.
It even has an app.
https://www.pointseastcoastaldrive.com/index.php?/50-beaches/index.php
When we toured eastern PEI all of these 50 beaches were acknowledged with road signs displaying a beach umbrella. Fairly easy to find beaches, especially for tourists.
No similar signs up west. In fact, beaches had no signs that we could see.
How are tourists expected to find these beautiful western PEI beaches?
We did, but mainly by taking chances and searching down roads that we were hoping had beaches. And we were on a mission.
We did have the North Cape Coastal Drive book with beaches located on it but didn’t find it always completely accurate. Maybe it was us, I don’t know. It did help us because if not for the book we’d never have known about some of these beaches as we saw no road signs indicating beaches. I’m posting it so you can see where some of the beaches we visited are approximately located.
It was perplexing to us that # 5 and #6 were both Cape Egmont and that on the map they were separated by #9 Maximeville. That’s not what we found. Anyone know the answer?
The book also has this map in it but as you can see there aren’t that many beaches marked on it.
We experienced so many amazing beaches up west. If tourists knew about them and could find them what a boost it would be to western PEI.
Linkletter Provincial Park Beach
https://www.tourismpei.com/provincial-park/linkletter
https://www.tourismpei.com/search/OperatorDetails/name/LinkletterProvincialPark/op_id/2198/
As you can see we found a lot of seaweed here. Not the greatest beach. Might be better at low tide.
I remember taking my kids here when they were young. It’s so close to Summerside that it was easy on a hot day to scoot out here and let them cool off. Plus there’s a lot of green space for kids to run around.
Ah the memories.
Here:
- grass parking
- washroom? unsure. We didn’t see them in the beach area but saw a building over at the campground so they’re probably there.
- unsupervised beach
- playground
- picnic tables
- day park 9-9
- campground there
Union Corner Provincial Park Beach
https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/en/point-interest/union-corner-provincial-park
https://www.tourismpei.com/provincial-park/union-corner
Red sand, very rocky beach
Nice metal stairs to the beach.
Lots of green space here too.
Here:
- lots of grass parking
- washrooms were portages potties
- changing rooms ( very clean)
- unsupervised beach
- picnic tables
- swings
- camping near by
We saw this sign posted there.
Check out their web site.
https://www.ibacanada.ca/site.jsp?siteID=PE011
Campground Road Beach
To get to this beach you turn down Campground Road (dirt road) which is right beside Moonlight Campground. Have no idea it’s official name so I just made up a name for it. On the North Cape Coastal map it’s #5 Cape Egmont.
Here’s the campground’s web site.
https://www.moonlightcamping.ca/index.html
And their Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Moonlight-Campground/409318232523045
Here:
- dirt road and took a bit of maneuvering to turn around to get back out
- no parking
- no washrooms
- unsupervised beach
- red sand beach with rocks
Cape Egmont Wharf Beach
On the North Cape Coastal map this is called #6 Cape Egmont. But since I wanted to differentiate it from the other Cape Egmont on the map I’m calling it Cape Egmont Wharf Beach. Another made up name. Again there were no directions telling us there was a wharf or even a beach down here.
It was great though during this trip to see so many working harbours.
Here you could go down to small beach areas on either side of the wharf area.
Here:
- paved road
- no specified parking areas but lots of room to park
- no washrooms
- unsupervised beach
- red sand beach
One side of the wharf. See the Cape Egmont Lighthouse in the distance.
The other side
Lots of driftwood.
That’s it for today.
Check back tomorrow.
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