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| Ogunquit Beach |
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| With the building of a bridge across the Ogunquit River in 1888, visitors began flocking to this magnificent 3½ mile expanse of clean, powdery white sand. Ogunquit residents, soon becoming fearful that their treasured beach would become inaccessible and privately owned with the proposed development of homes and amusement parks, daringly petitioned and pleaded with the State Legislature to cede the area between the Ogunquit River and the ocean to the Town. This was eventually granted and, at a cost of some $45,000, the entire area was acquired and designated a public park. As of 1938, Ogunquit's lovely beach was one of only two municipally owned beaches in the State of Maine. Because of its vast expanses, the town continues to guard, maintain and oversee its preservation and has limited entrance to the beach from just 3 locations: the Main Beach, with access from Beach Street; Footbridge Beach, reached from Ocean Street via a lovely, arched pedestrian bridge, and Ogunquit North Beach abutting Moody Beach and accessed from Bourne Avenue in Wells. It is not uncommon to find visitors and residents alike standing awestruck on this immaculate, uncluttered stretch of silky sand, preserved for future generation to marvel at such beauty.
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