Amelia Island beach accesses

By Kaden Ewald, Editor Last updated How we verify

Key facts

Every beach accesses we list on Amelia Island — 9 entries at present — each with its area, type and verification status. Listings marked unconfirmed have details we have not yet checked against a primary source.

All beach accesses

Main Beach Park

Fernandina Beach Oceanside · free

Fernandina Beach's busiest and most amenity-heavy oceanfront park, at the east end of Atlantic Avenue. Large free parking lot, restrooms, playground, volleyball, and food and mini-golf across the street — the default choice for a family beach day on Amelia Island.

Peters Point Beachfront Park

The South End · free

Nassau County's largest south-end beach park, off Fletcher Avenue near Sadler Road's southern reach. Big free lot, restrooms, outdoor showers, picnic pavilions and a long boardwalk over the dunes — the south end's answer to Main Beach, usually with more room.

Details unconfirmed

Amelia Island State Park

The South End

Two hundred undeveloped acres at the island's southern tip on Nassau Sound: beach, dune, marsh and maritime forest, with no buildings and no lifeguards. The only Florida state park offering guided horseback riding on the beach.

Seaside Park

Fernandina Beach Oceanside · free

A compact City of Fernandina Beach oceanfront park at the east end of Sadler Road, with a free lot, restrooms, a dune boardwalk and a small playground. The closest full-facility beach to the middle of the island and the usual overflow from Main Beach.

Fort Clinch Beach and Fishing Pier

Old Town Fernandina

Two beaches inside Fort Clinch State Park at Amelia Island's northern tip: Atlantic surf on the east side and calmer water by the jetties on the north, plus a fishing pier looking across Cumberland Sound to Georgia. Inside the park entry fee.

Details unconfirmed

Burney Park

American Beach · free

A Nassau County beach park at American Beach on the island's south end, with a free lot, restrooms, picnic pavilions and a dune walkover. The practical parking and facilities for anyone visiting American Beach and the NaNa dune.

North Beach

Old Town Fernandina · free

The stretch of Amelia Island shoreline north of Main Beach toward the Fort Clinch jetties, reached from the northern Fletcher Avenue accesses. Wide, quiet sand with a working-port view, no facilities, and the island's strongest currents near the jetties.

Scott Road Beach Access

Fernandina Beach Oceanside · free

A small Nassau County beach access off Scott Road on the island's oceanside, with a modest free lot and a dune walkover but no restrooms or showers. One of the accesses used for permitted beach driving.

Details unconfirmed

Fernandina Beach Numbered Accesses

Fernandina Beach Oceanside · free

Roughly two dozen small public beach accesses spaced along South and North Fletcher Avenue in Fernandina Beach, most with a dune walkover and a handful of roadside spaces and nothing else. The way onto the sand if you are staying oceanside.

Details unconfirmed