It's a great place for playing on the beach,
swimming, kite flying, and looking for clams and crabs.
Crescent Beach has a marina and Pier as well as a sailing club. There is also a
pool that requires a small membership fee that the locals just love.
It's also a great place for fish and chips. There's a pleasant gravel path that
runs parallel to the beach in front of all the quaint beach-front cottages.
Large sandy beach located west on the Crescent Road exit as you near the US
border near White Rock. Food Concessions and fish & chip shops. Change rooms.
Crescent Beach itself is a quaint village.
Crescent Beach has a doggy Park with access to the water, you can walk your dog
there during the winter months but in the summer it is too crowded to have all
the dogs there.
There are several excellent restaurants from fish and chips and ice cream to a
few of the upper end quaint dining spots.
The north end of this beach turns into marshland with trails and various forms
of bird life. This area is known as Blackie Spit.
To get to Crescent Beach, assuming you are taking highway 99 south from
Vancouver, exit off Highway 99 just before where highway 99a and 99 intersect.
Follow the signs to Crescent Road. Follow Crescent Road, which is a very
pleasant drive, to its end.
Call (604) 501-5000 for more information.
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