A family affair, plus lots of teens. There s a huge parking lot you pay 25 cents for 20 minutes. Get there before 11 a.m. to get a spot. There s a playground for the kids, fishing pier, picnic huts, benches, information kiosk and loads of shops and restaurants around at the newly improved Times Square, now a pedestrian mall with lights, trees and outdoor tables. The bathrooms score high, and county staff keep the whole park clean.
Water fountains have ice-cold water.
There also are change and soda machines and paid lockers. The beach was widened in 1996 by renourishment. Parking lot open 24 hours. Just east of Lynn Hall park. There s not a particularly wide stretch of sand, but it s the quality here, not the quantity.