Crosby Landing Beach

A wide bay beach in East Brewster near the historic Crosby Mansion. Over half a mile of sand that expands to nearly a mile at low tide. Wonderful for swimming, picnicking, and sunset watching.

Crosby Landing sits behind Nickerson State Park on Brewster's eastern bayshore, just down the bluff from the gilded-age Crosby Mansion. The beach is unusually long for a bay landing — more than half a mile of fine sand backed by low dunes and beach-rose — which means even on a busy day there's plenty of space to spread out. At dead low tide the flats join up with Linnell Landing to the west, creating one of the longest unbroken sandflat walks in New England. The water is shallow, gentle, and bath-warm by August, ideal for tentative swimmers and tidal-pool wading. Cell signal is good, the lot is decently sized, and the bordering cottage colony lends a sleepy postwar-Cape feel. Combine a beach afternoon with a tour of the Crosby Mansion (open select summer Sundays), or rent a bike at Nickerson State Park and ride the Cape Cod Rail Trail just inland. Best from late afternoon onward, when the bluff casts long shadows and the flats turn molten.